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Originally Posted by sanddrag
If you are a student or teacher, you can get SolidWorks for two years for only $70. Now that is a smokin' hot deal. I'm not sure how much Alibre is but for this cheap I don't see why anyone wouldn't just get SW.
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Wow! You must have been very board to dig up this thread, Sanddrag. Alibre ranges in prices from 150-400 for educational versions. The differences are in rendering stuff, and analysis stuff. I am currently trying out SolidWorks and I find it a much better program than Alibre, but I haven't decided if it is better than Inventor. Our school already has many copies of Inventor 5 (real versions, not FIRST versions) so we could get a discount on Inventor. I have a demo of version 10 on the way, so I got to check it out.
As I said before, Alibre is really difficult to use. You can't have
any extra lines when you boss (like extrude for those of you who don't know) or anything like that. But, in defence of them, they do have a greatly accelerated development plan that might make it really good in a few years. They try to come out with a new major version every 6 months(like from version 4 to 5) and a minor version every 3 months (like from 4.0 to 4.5) and periodic updates as they come. They have good support but they lack the quality currently.