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Old 09-24-2010, 07:51 AM   #12
VA07WRX
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Originally Posted by strong_auto_concepts View Post
I'm not a ProE user, but it does hold a pretty firm grasp in the Shipbuilding and civil markets. UG NX has a decent market share as well. I have a hard time with the ProE interface, but it's probably just because I'm so used to something else.
Which shipbuilding industry are you speaking of? I don't know of any that use ProE. Northrop Grumman, Electric Boat/Groton and all of the smaller yards that I have worked with in the past are all Autodesk (AutoCad/Inventor) junkies. The one exception to that, is anyone working on the newest generation of Aircraft Carrier. They are designing it using CATIA, but (The last I worked on that project) was still using V4 as the upgrade to V5 was causing major headaches as well as a major amount of capital.

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Inventor (the 3D CAD side of Autodesk's software) seems to have really gained some ground in the last few years. I don't have any experience with it, but from what I understand it's very beginner friendly and it sure looks awfully pretty. It's also cheaper than the competing products I believe.
I think it is ironic that our opinions of SolidWorks and Inventor are exactly the opposite. SW and Inventor interfaces are almost identical. Creating work planes, sketch planes, and axises. Then extruding, cutting, and sweeping are all nearly identical between the two. And while I agree that both are pretty beginner friendly, IMHO SolidWorks falls short.

To each their own I guess.
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