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  • Solidworks

    368 56.97%
  • Alibre Design

    46 7.12%
  • Inventor

    94 14.55%
  • Sketchup

    59 9.13%
  • Rhino 3D

    75 11.61%
  • Ashlar Vellum

    4 0.62%
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    i always prefer catia...



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    Default Re: What is your Favorite 3D CAD Program

    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.



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    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.



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    Designing physical models either for manufacturing or visualization requires solid modeling. All operations in Tinkercad are guaranteed to generate proper solids.



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    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.



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    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.



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    Default Re: What is your Favorite 3D CAD Program

    In my opinion, SolidWorks is one of the best software you can get; it has a variety of options and is easier to use.



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    Default Re: What is your Favorite 3D CAD Program

    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.



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    Default Re: What is your Favorite 3D CAD Program

    Solidworks is more popular around here.

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    Default Re: What is your Favorite 3D CAD Program

    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.



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