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ho inventor ma mi sto interessando a solid works e catia v5

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Hello everyone, I wanted to ask you an opinion on my situation.
our company deals with design & consulting,
Our battle horses are:

- sheet metal mould design
-plastic mold design
- special machine design and industrial lines
-industrial design and co design

we currently use inventor, autocad and real system..
but the most used is undoubtedly inventor.
I'm interested in the dassault systemes solutions and I wanted to see if I could benefit
from solidworks or catia.

Thank you very much
 
go on solidworks with closed eyes. if you have no problems with "historical compatibility" is a choice that will certainly bring you only benefits.
solidworks is light years ahead to inventor. with the last 3 releases has pasi ahead as giant, far away.
ease of use, performance, functions, graphics...all other level.

Bye!
 
take advantage? depends on what you do and what you expect from the software.
the forum is full of sw vs inv battles, very often but are only consequences from the unknowledge of one and the other product.
I have used inventor for many years, now I use sw, both have qualities and defects and you have to try them on your skin to understand.
I only give you a banal example, I find the environment 2d bad of sw and if I were based only on this factor I would dislike it but it would be a mistake.
affirm "go with eyes closed on this or that" is deeply wrong.
the best thing would be to be able to really use it for a while and I realize that it is often impossible.
I do not see all these light years of difference.
 
before evaluating another software I would evaluate a good training course.
often those that seem to us lack of software are our little knowledge of the same.
also consider that changing software "you will lose" all the past archive.
Of course every company has history to itself, but if you have to take back for some reason an old project you do?
 
uforiky said:
go on solidworks with closed eyes. if you have no problems with "historical compatibility" is a choice that will certainly bring you only benefits.
solidworks is light years ahead to inventor. with the last 3 releases has pasi ahead as giant, far away.
ease of use, performance, functions, graphics...all other level.

Bye!
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Boom!

inventor was a key definitely around the 2000-2003 years but now I don't think so.

and you scirve one cha ha swx and tried 2017:smile:
 
TECNOMODEL said:
before evaluating another software I would evaluate a good training course.
often those that seem to us lack of software are our little knowledge of the same.
also consider that changing software "you will lose" all the past archive.
Of course every company has history to itself, but if you have to take back for some reason an old project you do?
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This is really good advice.
the problem if anything is to find a good instructor, not one of those who teach you only to make extrusions and colored representations.
 
Usually those who sell the software have valid technical trainers.
we have always found excellent professionalism that allowed me to grow significantly in the knowledge of software.
 
marcof said:
Boom!

inventor was a key definitely around the 2000-2003 years but now I don't think so.

and you scirve one cha ha swx and tried 2017:smile:
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Oh, my God. I'm using both software to the 2017 version and are objectively learningable to parer mio (and many others reading forums...).
inv takes itself behind the name, but also a tide of concepts and archaic solutions that are now overtaken by other cads, as sw precisely. I come across a lot of inv users who don't even know what some basic functions of sw and/or other cad are. an inv user for example does not know what the "show hidden parts" is, or is used by now to use the very uncomfortable "project geometry" when every other cad automatically recognizes what you are doing.

then, that it improved ok, but the others are also...

I personally repeat to our friend to think seriously about the passage.
ah...solidworks assistance is phenomenal. ..even only the tutorials present are exceptional.
greetings

Jury
 
both used... inventor is much more intuitive.
then if you are able to use them I imagine they are similar.
however, that the whole world communicates with autocad... that is autodesk.
with unique inventor package with everything with other programs you also need to buy autocad license.
then if you take a walk you will see how many autodesk programs can communicate with inventor... what solidworks dreams of.

but in any case you have to see your needs

Hi.
 
costruzione3d said:
both used... inventor is much more intuitive.
then if you are able to use them I imagine they are similar.
however, that the whole world communicates with autocad... that is autodesk.
with unique inventor package with everything with other programs you also need to buy autocad license.
then if you take a walk you will see how many autodesk programs can communicate with inventor... what solidworks dreams of.

but in any case you have to see your needs

Hi.
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autocad to do what? development of dwg/dxf?
 
sbeitols did the same question in 3 different posts... As for me I do not know very well inventor but I find sw more complete, regarding mold design has the necessary tools already in the basic version in addition the pro version has plastic that greatly helps who designs molds and plastic parts. sw was born to design machinery and industrial lines and even here you shouldn't have any problems, as regards design you will find some woodwork in the use of complex surfaces, often receive excellent surfaces from rhino and I would say that the matching rino for design and sw for mechanical design also meets the most refined palates. technomodel quoto, without some good course it really becomes more difficult.
 
inventor tsplines are phenomenal (according to me they know them in a few) and for the inventor molds has the tooling with inside moldflow (which is autodesk) and is the most used die analysis solutor in the world!!
If things are not known to you, we do only bar speeches as for motorcycles "better the bicylinders or the quadricylinders ..
and then take the pay from a scooter!"
 
tooling has a small part of Moldovaflow.
I agree that it is a great tool but then you have to know how to use it, and it is not so obvious.

What do you mean by tsplines? the spline in the line command?
It could be an interesting topic to explore.
 
I am not able to give useful information but the discussion is very curious. no indication on catia v5? It's a higher-end cad than inventor/solidworks, if I didn't get it wrong. .
 
hi in the company we have inventor ..but we are seriously thinking about going to sw.
 
VALTER66 said:
hi in the company we have inventor ..but we are seriously thinking about going to sw.
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What are the "fundamental" things (I want to say... don't tell me why I don't like projecting geometry or orbit on the f4 key is uncomfortable) that make you make this decision?
 
if I'm not mistaken there are from the 2015 version (never used, I stayed in 2014 and probably stayed there until I can)
 

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