Inventor vs. Siemens NX

[Anonymous]

Hello, are there any experiences from users regarding Inventor and NX? My main concern is the versioning of components and the use of these versions in different assemblies without replacing each individual component.

I've only heard bad experiences from Vault. Teamcenter great for NX but Inventor only to a limited extent. And no support at Inventor ...

Can someone speak of their experiences?

thanks

[SharkDesign]

I don't have experience of what you are talking about, but NX is much better at surfacing than inventor.

[Anonymous]

Do you use revisions for your Inventor parts?

[SharkDesign]

Yes, vault handles all that.

[Gabriel_Watson]

If anyone complains about interactions between Vault and Inventor, try asking someone who set up Siemens Teamcenter solution instead, and you will see it is a nightmare to build everything on top.
I cannot disclose our company's struggles freely, but guaranteed NX and TeamCenter will cost you more and require a lot more people to setup, whereas Vault can be implemented in a week or less with a value-added reseller (VAR) that can do most of the troubleshooting as well.

I often repeat that Inventor is ideal for furniture design because it is simple to use and learn, but suffers as the design becomes more complex. I heard similar things of Solidworks but I believe NX and PTC Creo are one step above in functionality for the user. However, that comes at a price, and with Vault we do have ways to manage previous revisions/versions in different assemblies. I am pretty sure you can get very good examples and demos from a local VAR or Autodesk itself if you contact them. This is probably a better question to ask in the Vault forum as I see it as a PDM issue.