Originally Posted by
Caprirs
I have Alibre Pro and am very happy with it. For working with assemblies of parts, it is tough to beat price-wise. Alibre provides 80-90% of Solidworks capabilities for 10% of the cost.
For projects like furniture, Alibre would work well allowing you to assemble things virutally before building. For example, you could have a library of table legs and swap them on screen to see which would look best. Alibre also has a photo rendering package to create realistic images before building.