Solid Works vs. Inventor

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by R.C.

A CAD program is relatively easy to pick up with prior CAD experience. If your looking at something to play around with, then sure why not get a free copy of Inventor. But it seems like your team has mentors that know solidworks and a shop that uses Solidworks. So I would stick with Solidworks if at all possible.

-RC

I too recommend Solidworks. My department at work is Pro/E based but is now switching over to Solidworks for all files (lucky for me, I hated using Pro/E).

Also, I completely agree with what RC stated here. The switch between Inventor and SW isn't really a big deal, and the new versions of Inventor are pretty similar in interface. The only one that really took me a while to learn after SW was Pro/E, but Inventor is a quick change.

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