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Hi, I'm new to AutoCad. I have lots of Adobe Photoshop and Google Sketchup experience and I also have 3 years of mechanical engineering college but did not learn AutoCad prior to dropping out 20 years ago. I love inventing things and dream of making it big one day, but for now, I have a custom automotive fiberglass and plastic parts design and manufacturing company. I draw designs on photoshop and then pay someone to draw a model in Autodesk 3Ds Max. I use the model for scupting, measuring and marketing. I do all the prototypes and moulds the old fasioned way.... After 20 years, now I'm very interested in learing to design parts on CAD and then having the molds or prototypes milled out on a CNC if possible...getting too old to do everything the hard way! Can anyone help me with some advice as to which Cad Program would be the best for me?
SolidWorks and Inventor (two applications, produced by two separate companies) are parametric history-based modelers. That is, your model has a list of features which describe how the model is built, and these features are editable. Inventor Fusion creates models without any history, so it is a bit more flexible, but not as structured, and certainly doesn't carry as much intelligence and design intent built into the model. Inventor Fusion also does not currently have a drawing module, so 2D documentation has to be done in another application such as AutoCAD.
It's looking to me like possibly Alias automotive would be the best shot so far. If I buy the Alias design 2013, do I get the automotive version too for the $4K?
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