Hi there! Our engineer requested to purchase Autodesk’s Inventor Software. I’d say it is not very pricey (about 700-800 USD per year) but I’d like at least check alternatives. So is there any pros to use SketchUp versus Inventor? Personally I have a bad experience with free PCB software (KiCAD) w…

apples with pears… … if a parametric MCAD NURBS modeler for creating spline curves based solids and surfaces as Inventor/Solidworks/Creo/Alibre is required a mesh modeler for creating facetted 3D sketches mainly for presentation and visualization purposes as SketchUp is no replacement and vice vers…

I don’t really understand what are you talking about. Looks like you described particular feature. I’ve updated my question to make the task more clear. Could you comment on that?

if you don’t understand what I’m talking of you should probably not decide what to be bought but discuss my annotations with your engineer first.

sketch3d_de: if a parametric MCAD NURBS modeler for creating spline curves based solids and surfaces as Inventor/Solidworks/Creo/Alibre Rhinoceros would also be worth a mention here as a NURBS modeller that can even get parametric features through the Grasshopper extension, and it is not as …

[image] Anssi: Rhinoceros would also be worth a mention here as a NURBS modeller… Rhino is optimized for advanced surface modeling in the area of product/industry design and less optimized for solid modeling in the engineering area (constraints/parametrics, assemblies, sheet metal, threads/sh…

sketch3d_de: If no knowledge and/or no native documents do already exist, I would check SWX first and alternatively if price is an issue Alibre. I was rather thinking about an alternative to Inventor that was the first choice of the user referenced by Ramario. Inventor too is more about surf…

Another NURBS modeling tool: http://moi3d.com/ (moment of inspiration). Never tried it, but loved to watch some videos of it in action…

[image] Anssi: Inventor too is more about surfaces and product design than mechanical modelling… Inventor is the successor of ‘Mechanical Desktop’ and ADesks MCAD package for “professional-grade 3D mechanical design” competing with the products already mentioned above but can of course used f…

Using SketchUp instead of AutoDesk Inventor

SketchUp

Anssi January 17, 2017, 6:14pm 5

Rhinoceros would also be worth a mention here as a NURBS modeller that can even get parametric features through the Grasshopper extension, and it is not as expensive as the others (more than SketchUp Pro, though)

Well put

Anssi

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