Solid Works vs. Inventor

[kinghashbrown]

Stay with Solidworks. I personally like the inventor interface more however my team uses Solidworks because the schools we come from use it.

Going back and forth between Inventor and Solidworks is a big pain.

Stick with what you got for ease of use.

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

I couldn't agree more. Stick with the one you have experience with, can get help with, and can export for fabrication. Of course, it doesn't hurt to learn Inventor as well. Enough teams use it that it would be helpful to be able to go back and forth across the platform difference with them. And maybe it has some advantages over Solidworks that you can use sometime down the road.

Our team has used Solidworks for the last 2 years, and I like it a lot. As Chris said, it's intuitive. I tried AutoCAD 2011 (not sure how that differs from Inventor) just recently and it kind of threw me off.

AutoCAD and Inventor are totally different. just made by the same company.
You should think about downloading Inventor 2011 and trying it. the 2011 release has many new features and I find it nice to work with.

Just my 2 cents.