Interference detection, Clearance verification, Hole alignment available for use. Standard mates: Coincident, parallel, perpendicular, Concentric, distance, Angle.When modeling with assemblies SOLIDWORKS offers far more Mating, inspection functionality, with far more added support for large assemblies, as seen below: Function Other patterns: Sketch driven, Curve driven, table driven, fill pattern.Circular: Yes, with functionality to skip instances.Linear/rectangular paths: Yes, with functionality to skip instances.Circular: Available but cannot skip instances.Linear/rectangular paths: yes but cannot skip instances.Profile complexity: capable of sweeping complex profiles.Hole on non-planar surface: Can be placed on any face.End condition: blind, through all, up to next, up to vertex, up to surface and surface offset.Hole on non-planar surface: Requires creation of additional plane.Start and end conditions can be surfaces, vertices and offsets from either FunctionĮxtrude/revolve start and end conditions must be a surface. Remains stable no matter the geometry changeĮxtremely user friendly and easy to learn.Ĭompared to Autodesk Inventor, SOLIDWORKS has much more powerful solid feature options, allowing for much more complex geometries to be created faster and easier. More streamlined into sketching, with advanced text functionality such as symbols, and commentsĬhange in geometry can cause instability at times Less functional, and requires additional clicks for alignment SOLIDWORKS has more advance and parametric sketch functions, with much better ease of use as seen below: Function Some of the areas its that Autodesk inventor shows a lack of depth compared to SOLIDWORKS are: Creating Sketches
SOLIDWORKS compared to Inventorĭespite looking similar, Inventor often falls short of the depth of the SOLIDWORKS, often requiring complex workarounds. This blog post will delve into some of the differences between the SOLIDWORKS and Autodesk Inventor, in order to give users a much more informed perspective to choose between the two. Developed and published by Autodesk ( more commonly known for their AutoCAD product line), Inventor is a 3D CAD modeling solution with a large global presence and is arguably one of SOLIDWORKS biggest rivals. Despite their similarities, SOLIDWORKS as a solution often offers more functionality, ease of use and much greater support through VAR’s.
Many users make the assumption, that because they look similar, that there is no significant difference between Inventor and SOLIDWORKS, and this couldn’t be further from the truth.
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There are many differences so let’s compare in detail the two leading 3D CAD software solutions.