Vote !! 1.Solidworks 2.Catia 3.Proengineer 4.Inventor
which one do u prefer without counting the price?
65 answers
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Selcuk OZMUMCU over 1 year agoDear Friends,
Regarding their product categories, it is not right to put Catia to the same group with Solidworks, Proengineer and Inventor. Only those three except from Catia could be compared.
Catia and others are not in the same product Category.Catia could be compared with NX if the real product category is being considered!
Regards,
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Robert Stein over 1 year agoExactly. Putting a Bugatti Veyron to the same category with a Renault Laguna isn't a comparison. :)
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Robert Stein over 1 year ago
Solidworks
(biased opinion: I could live with about half of the options available, more than this would be wasting resources and money :) )
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William over 1 year ago70% of users on GrabCAD use Solidworks Alireza
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Venkatasubramanian over 1 year ago
70 prozent ..Man U s'd be kiddin' me...better put it as 95 prozent ;p
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Schwarzenecker Leo over 1 year agoI use at work Catia
but i did also work with solidworks, inventor, solid edge, visocad, cimatron,Proe,mastercam,3dmax.
every program has its good and bad sides as well.
I could not tell what program is the best, it depends on the situation you need it for.
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Sudhir Gill over 1 year agoWell it's being so long i had wished a place where i can discuss these topics!!! GrabCAD made that wish come true..
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Tom Kirkup CADT over 1 year agogot to be solidworks, pro engineer or 'creo' as they call it now still looks like it belongs on windows 2000 and the software still behaves like that aswell. not tried inventor or catis
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Mark Flayler over 1 year agoDepends on the areas in question. They are the two best programs out there for creating the majority of what users need IMOP. SolidWorks and Inventor are both mid-range modelors with SolidWorks having a corporate disadvantage and Pro-E and Catia are higher end systems. The poll isn't the place to debate the differences though. Off the top of my head though there are quite a few things Inventor does that SolidWorks doesn't and not much the other way around for different user personas.
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Selcuk OZMUMCU over 1 year ago
Dear Friends,
If we are talking about a CAD Software rating regarding "Industrial Design", I would like to share this video with you. Most of you may already know about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTC5zMktMr0&feature=related
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Mark Flayler over 1 year ago
If you want to talk about Industrial Design, then you need to consider Alias in that too! As well as Inventor Fusion. Look for some links on those!
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Bruce Coats over 1 year agoI say Inventor because I Have Inventor.
I only had a sort trial run with Solidworks.
So the real question is.
Who has tried SW, INV, Pro or CAT and found one to be superior than the other?
Me I like Inventor because that's the one I always use. In the past I noticed that Inventors rendering engine was better than SW.
My nickels worth.
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
why we have no proengineer user here?
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Venkatasubramanian over 1 year ago
I am a proEngineer User...Only for Part modelling..and I use Solidworks for both surfacing and Part modelling
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Adam Pohl over 1 year ago
I use Pro-E as well. I find Solidworks much easier but I have been using it longer.
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
dont think about the software price just tell the name of softawre that u want to work with.
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
but Why.does it mean Solidworks is better than Catia that we know Catia is really better than solidworks?
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Robert Stein over 1 year ago
Depends on needs. even SW has more options than I need. Catia would be waste of resources (and money) because having a tool you do not use is just beyond sane reasoning. Just like I don't need a 6 liter bi-turbo car with 500HP to go to work.
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William over 1 year ago
It all depends on what they use there CAD software for and most people stick to what they got taught with unless there work uses a different CAD software and they need to learn that. Then it is the price all different factors come in to it but mainly it is what suits that person better that they use the CAD software as they do. If Inventor was cheaper than Solid Works I am sure there would be a lot more users of that software on GrabCAD. A million different factors come into the equation.
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Xander over 1 year agoSolidworks, I was taught it first and get a free student edition so cant complain about it :P But its also a great program in my opinion, I can make a model, bring it to my school and there we can print it out in 3D, mill it on one of our CNC machines, or cut it out on a waterjet, all without using any other software! (Solidworks provides all data needed to export to the machine code, .stl, .nc, .dxf)
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Mark Flayler over 1 year ago
Inventor, no doubt about it. Has the most versatility in the Suite for design
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Sean Date over 1 year agoTough one!! I loved working on Solidworks but I use Inventor everyday doing my current day job................................................I think I'll go with Solidworks!!
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fssane over 1 year agoi know designing in proE. some models i have designed before.. but uninstalled it for 1 years ago
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Mark Flayler over 1 year ago
Since this isn't a definative study I wouldn't report anything. This only confirms what you use, most users have not tried all four programs so the study is flawed to begin with. This does not take into effect all users of the site either, only about 40 or so users.
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
u r the Inventor guy Mark.
Do u think Inventor is stronger than Solidworks?
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
Dmitri r u proengineer user?
Tell us more anout this software Plz i really want to know about it and even a contrast between SW and ProE. PLZ
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
1.Solidworks with 19 Votes
2.Inventor with 7 Votes
3.Catia with 4 Votes
4.ProE with 1 Votes !!!!!!!!!
till now
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
i just want to have a view point to Votes.
1.Solidworks with 13 Vote
2.Inventor with 6 Vote
3.Catia with 2 Vote
4.Proengineer with 0 !!!!!
these r the results till now.
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
1.Solidworks with 19 Votes
2.Inventor with 7 Votes
3.Catia with 4 Votes
4.ProE with 0 Votes !!!!!!!!!
till now.
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
1.Solidworks with 19 Votes
2.Inventor with 7 Votes
3.Catia with 4 Votes
4.ProE with 1 Votes !!!!!!!!!
till now.
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Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
1.Solidworks with 20 Votes
2.Inventor with 9 Votes
3.Catia with 4 Votes
4.ProE with 1 Votes !!!!!!!!!
till now.
