Inventor and Solidworks

[waynefisher]

My company is in the process of researching Solidworks. We have for the last six years been using strictly Inventor for all designs, renderings, animations, detail drawings etc. My question today is, how many companies have both Inventor and Solidworks? Do you use both to run your engineering departments? Inventor has been a good tool for us in the past, we build primarily metal weldments. No plastics, no surface modeling. I am not quite sure the reason for acquiring Solidworks, however I speculate there is a greater workforce available that are Solidworks users. I am looking for any thoughts or concerns in regards to having two different software packages. I know the models for each will not cross over well into the other. Is there anything else I should know, pros and cons?

Thanks

Wayne

[danzco]

Sure, just use Pack and Go.  You can get at it from the Save As menu, or from the right click menu in Windows.

[Cadmanto]

Wayne,

I have done pack and go in both softwares.  Inventor is easy as well.

You can also rename the files in the dialog if need be like you indicated you wanted to.