[jdiwnab]

After I tried the demo for a little while, I stopped using it, but forgot to delete it. I went to a TSA (technology student association) competition and entered in their 3D CAD compitition. My computer was going nuts for a while (mumble.. mumble.. Windows... mumble). I thought I had it fixed, but my copy of Inventor wasn't working. After several re-installs it still didn't work. The guy next to me had is SolidWorks CD that I borrowed, but that didn't work right either. At this point, most people are already working. Suddenly I remembered I had Alibre. It worked. I did the proplem in about 1 hour (three hour time block, 1/2 hour spent fighting my computer). I didn't really like it, but I thought, Oh well, I did it with realy bad software. I tried Inventor again, and It Worked! I was able to redo the whole thing in about 20 minutes (including the time to burn a disk as was required). 1 hour to model+10 minutes to save, burn, and lable versus 20 minutes to do all of it... I think Inventor is much better that Alibre.

As a side note, I do have a SW demo right now and I think that It's prety good. It might have taken me about 25-30 minutes, but mostly because I wouldn't have been really used to where things are.