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Originally Posted by DeepWater
I heard about this a week or so ago and surfed around and from what I can tell the speculation is that X-CAD = Alibre ( www.alibre.com). I think (90% sure) the offer is real but I haven't signed up yet because I can't quite figure out what the catch is yet. I am thinking they give you a crippled copy of Alibre for free and offer you an upgrade to the full version for a discounted price or something. Think about it. Even if the upgrade was $50 or maybe $100 with an instant user base of 100,000 people that would be an easy $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. You have to give it to them. It's a neat marketing scheme. |
I have tried Alibre and have found it so finikey and touchy that it is difficult to do some basic things like extrude. It took me an hour to do in Alibre what it took 20 minutes to do in Inventor. Even it this is real, if it is a crippled version of Alibre, then it is going to be very bad.