As we all work our way around and sometimes through software bugs, and annoying feature problems in Solidworks, we sometimes wonder is there something better out there we don't know about:
By reading those comments, you certainly get a better feeling that those dreams of vast open green fields are actually dead and brown! Good thing that company only claims to be have 80% of Solidworks capabilities, if they had 100%, those users would probably choose to become a monk!
Hahahaha! Freebie CD's often make good coffee mug coasters! Like the ones they always give you from AOL...
Posted by: Gabi | March 26, 2008 at 03:40 PM
Gabi,
When I spoke to Greg that day he told me that Alibre was not intended to be a Solidworks replacement for users of my experiance due to Alibre being an introductory 3D Cad package. Being that the CEO of Alibre told me I wouldnt gain anything from using it, I have since turned it into a coffee mug coaster.
Posted by: Mike | March 26, 2008 at 02:45 PM
Hi Mike,
You mentioned in another post that you were given a demo by Alibre's CEO at that expo. Did you actually install the software and tried it? Does it look/work like SW or SW wannabe? Since you posted about it, I went to check out their site and saw their offer for the Express product (I think that's the name, I don't remember), but did not want to download it, for fear that it would mess up SolidWorks settings or any other settings in my computer. I find it unusual that they would offer users to keep using their product for free after the trial period is over, but then again, it seems that is extremely limited in functionality, so that may be a reason, just to try to hook you up and make you buy the real thing? I may try it in my son's computer, just to satisfy my curiosity. ;-)
Posted by: Gabi | March 26, 2008 at 01:59 PM