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AutoDesk Inventor Saved Your 2D Butt

Started by Josh M · 10 months ago

Reading a post over at WorldCAD Access about a recent article makes me realize just how fortunate we are that AutoDESK “finally broke the market open” in 1999 with Inventor and saved us from expensive modeling programs like CATIA.
Hmmm. Man, if it wasn’t ... Continue reading »

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  • Steve

    1 year ago

    I thought this was kind of an interesting article. Now before anybody jumps down my throat for that comment, let me explain. I've been using AutoDesk products for about 7 years now. That's what I was taught on and that's how I was introduced to 3D CAD. Although, last year, when I started my new job, we were (and still are) using ProE. But we're making the move to Solidworks. We've been using SW for about six months I guess and I've fallen in love all over again. I've had limited experience with SW for the last two or three years, but never really had any prolonged exposure. Now, it's the only thing I use. It makes you wonder why it wasn't more wide-spread before Inventor "opened the market". Just food for thought...
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    Hey Steve, good thoughts. I started out in Acad myself and evaluated inventor in two different companies against solidworks and solidedge. I’m not sure how many seats of SW were out prior to 99, but I do know that was the most common jobs I came across for 3D when I was looking in 2000. I ended up with a SW reseller where I saw some behind the scenes dealin’ that happened by autodesk resellers that put a bad taste in my mouth and where I probably became very biased :)

    In all actuality, I’d probably be the first to try out something new, if it worked better.
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