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Re: Why Inventor?

My company uses UG and Inventor. Inventor is cheap, and in my experience offers more than enough design capability for the average user. I work between both platforms regularly and find Inventor to be quite user friendly......most concepts transfer between the two programs without much trouble.

Also, if you're dead set on Autocad......do what I do. Make your 2D layout in autocad and import it into your sketch environment.

When we do complex laser or waterjet cuts with lots of windows, I design it in Autocad....transfer it to inventor and extrude!
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