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Originally Posted by Sunshine
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As was pointed out already- Inventor is rarely used in industrial applications. Solidworks has dominated the midlevel segment for a long time. I've never seen or heard of it being used to any great degree outside of FIRST or a college classroom. I'm sure it's done, just not nearly as often as Autodesk makes it sound.
Autodesk can rightly claim that it sells well because it does- to schools. It has to do with AutoCAD's legacy- any school with an architecture program is already buying autoCAD, and buying Inventor for it's mechanical program is inexpensive compared to going to DSS for Solidworks. We had to lobby long and hard to convince my college to bite the bullet and ditch Inventor. It wasn't cheap, but it was long overdue. It was getting difficult to find job listings that didn't require solidworks experience. I don't think I ever saw one requiring Inventor.
-Andy A.