i always prefer catia...
Solidworks
Alibre Design
Inventor
Sketchup
Rhino 3D
Ashlar Vellum
i always prefer catia...
I think I may have already posted but nit sure. I list my preferences as follows:
1 - CATIA - I worked as an airframe designer for a major defense contractor and CATIA rocks. Very powerful, but with a somewhat steep learning curve.
2 - Unigraphics - Also used Unigraphics a bit as the contractor I worked for used both CATIA ans UG. UG is also very powerful. Likewise a somewhat steep learning curve. More familiar with, so prefer CATIA.
3- SolidWorks - Much less steep learning curve. Can do most things you would ever need to do, but UG and CATIA are better if doing anything with complex surfaces.
As an aside, I was a beta tester for Ashlar Vellum way back when they were first incorporating solid modelling. Back then (1997 or 98) the program was not stable enough. I eventually abandoned my beta testing and have not picked it back up since. Even then it had some cool features and I am sure it is much more mature, after all, it was in beta when I was using it.
Freecad (freecadweb.org) Its free open source and I get free help on their forum. What's on my if I win power ball jackpot list would be solidworks.
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Inventor mostly because I work with it. As with all software there are some drawbacks. I would love to see how HSMexpress performs with Inventor. At the moment we take the Inventor part and bring it into Featurecam to generate G Code. Sometimes I draw a solid model directly in Featurecam when it's not too complex. They both work well.
Designing physical models either for manufacturing or visualization requires solid modeling. All operations in Tinkercad are guaranteed to generate proper solids.
Turbocad pro for the Mac ,..
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TurboCAD
I started with it about 10-15 years ago and it seems fairly easy to learn for a low cost program.
SolidWorks Is excellent too
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Proe powerful software for design...
Cimtaron E powerful software for 3D 3x and 5x. Excellent for extracting electrodes and programming mold plates. I do not like CAD Mold Design.
In my opinion, SolidWorks is one of the best software you can get; it has a variety of options and is easier to use.
Learned SolidWorks the hard way...by using it. It was SO different from AutoCAD, which I had learned as Rel9 in MSDOS. (Now you know my approximate age)
Took a long time to get SW to sink in.
No one has mentioned Fusion360 as a CAD/CAM product. Home version is free. I'm just beginning to explore it.
Anyone got an opinion?
It has a steep learning curve as well. Makes one wonder why these systems aren't more user compatible.
Solidworks is more popular around here.
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This is quite an old poll now.For hobby use,Freecad version 0.19 or newer does a great job at zero cost,but as mentioned above in a slightly different context,the learning curve is near vertical for a while.