
But, Solidworks, and Inventor, are both FAR better than Alibre for modeling. I completely understand about the money - I could not spring for HSMWorks right now, and Solidworks was a real stretch. Frankly, SW + HSMWorks for $10k (my guesstimated total price) is just too much buck for the bang for my situation and disposable income. It's the bad SprutCAM days that have me wondering about alternatives. Especially since Alibre (err, Geomagic) mostly works just fine for what I need to do and on a good day, SprutCAM is the same.



It's finding the time before the trial expires to actually use them enough to know if I want to plunk down money on them that is the problem. Ray - the download and install are no problem.
