He finds Inventor to not be intuitive were I find the same thing about Solidworks. Mine is probably tainted by the years of using Inventor compared to the little time spent on Solidworks where Macona prefers to use Solidworks. I will be the first to admit that Inventor has some "points" that can drive you to drink but every complex program does, even Solidworks, Alibre or Sketchup.Įveryone's experience with any given program, especially when they are this complex, is going to differ. The feature manager frequently has much of it hidden and must be opened and collapsed to get at the various box's, where Inventor has dialogue box's that open as necessary and only the commands and functions that can be used at any particular moment are normally visible which makes the screen/s tidier and less crowded. Many functions that I find easy in Inventor seem clumsy to me in Solidworks. After downloading a trial and having used it a bit I don't see what the fuss is about. I have used Inventor for many years, moving to it from Autocad and have seen many posts on it from members that seem to like it better then anything else so I decided to have a look and see what was so wonderful. A prototype done in Solidworks will be very much the same as one done in Inventor. True, if you are doing a specific job or work for a company that requires the use of a specific program then that is what you learn and use.īut if you are just going to learn 3D virtual modeling/prototyping then you can use any and it wouldn't hurt to check out several players in the field.īoth Solidworks and Inventor are about equal to each other, they play leapfrog with each other on new features, they probably use the same drawing engine (there aren't many to chose from) and have the same basic commands and functionality. I was in your shoes a few months ago.īest of luck,Thanks for the input I will look into this book as soon as I find my gift card from Barnes and Noble UGH I use Rhino as my main app but a job that we took on required SW. Sometimes a job requires knowledge of SW over others. The CD does a nice job of explaining and demonstrating the many principles of the program.Īs for others saying to use this app instead of that app, etc, they don't always know the situation that leads one to use something else. While I'm certainly no expert on this application, I am much more comfortable working with it since picking up this book. I paid around $40.00 plus shipping on Amazon. I looked at many books on this application and found this to be one of the best. It teaches you to build a robot with many parts and assemblies of many different geometries. This book contains several hundred pages plus the CD. I have been working with SolidWorks 2010 Tutorial with Multiedia CD by David C.
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