Monty,
Cost aside, can you go a little into how
user friendly this software is? For comparison I've messed around a little with
Pro E and Solidworks. More with Pro E. I find Pro E excruciating to work
with, Solidworks considerably better. Probably one of those things where once
you use it some it gets way better. I just dont have the spare time to invest a
week to learn how to create a simple part.
For the crippled post 30 day version can
you still generate useful output files? Or is this one of those deals where you
can model a part but not save, close, and reopen the model? The crippled
demo version I had of Solidworks wouldnt allow you to actually save
anything.
Mike Wills
Mike,
If you can use either ProE or Solid works, you'll
be like a duck in water with Alibre. Same sort of concept.
Sketches control features.
Drawings flow from the solid.
The hardest part for people who have zero
experience is going to be the Parametric Sketching thing. Applying constraints
can be a real PITA.
That is what was so good about the old UG. It was
parametric without the sketch based crap. That was always the problem with ProE.
You couldn't do anything unless it was completely constrained. and everything
was tied to everything. I used to torture their sales people. I could make it
Puke in 30 seconds flat.
Alibre has some of those problems with sketches
blowing up etc. But it will let you proceed without fully constrained
sketches.
I think the crippled version limits how big the
assembly can be and some of the more advanced features drop off. It's only $250
or so to get the hobby version.
Monty
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