Excellence in Design Award 2010-SolidWorks to Inventor

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

When a company puts up money to sponsor an award it seems that they have to have a reason, making thousands familiar with their product is a pretty good reason IMHO. In fact, letting you use SW is counterproductive. So, while I agree that I prefer SW over Inventor, Autodesk put up the money so they run the show. Gotta love that don'tcha?

Now, just to clear this up, these rules were released a couple weeks before Kickoff.

I completely understand the idea where they are coming from with requiring their product. It just doesn't seem fair to make it so you can NOT submit for this award unless you have done so. Our team is just running out of hands, so we don't have the time to convert the files.

And our team was not aware of the minute details of this award. Which, I guess is a "my bad" on our part, but even then, we didn't have any knowledge of Inventor, so I guess we would have been up the creek without a paddle anyway...