best tool for powerplant animation

[baskerville]

Hello Everybody!
that´s my first post here. I´m from Italy and sorry for the mistakes in english..

Me and some other crazy friends want to start a project. We want to model in 3d different power plants, starting from the renewable energy powered.. The big challenge would be to model every kind of powerplants..but let´s fly down..

My question is simple: what is the best tool (or combination of tools) to this purpose????

consider this:
we want technical details for the mechanical parts (like turbines and so on..). We also want to manage buildings and other external structures. At the and we want to integrate both in a very nice animation with high visual impact!

candidates:

Inventor
Solidworks
3d Studio MAX
Autodesk Viz
CATIA

My idea: Inventor + 3Ds MAX.

Reason: they are better integrable (all are from Autodesk).

second question: what about the educational licence for the tools above mentioned?

Comments / suggestions are welcome!!!!!!

thank you very much!!!!!

baskerville

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PS: do you know what it is???