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Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by bigger_cheese on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @06:40PM (#13180849)
Is Pro/Engineer still around? I used Pro-E when I was at University (along with Solidworks) at the time it was my preferred package.
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Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by sanarothe on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:16PM (#13181461)
I'm doing an ME degree right now, and they teach us both Solidworks and Pro-E (now Creo Parametric.)

If I remember the results of googling 'Creo vs Solidworks' correctly, Creo is better at handling really big assemblies and is used extensively in automotive industry. Most of my peers prefer Solidworks.

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Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by blacksmythe on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:30PM (#13181552)
As I recall, SolidWorks took the majority of the market from Pro-E in the early 2000's by charging (IIRC) $4k when Pro-E was more like $20k.

I don't know what SolidWorks charges now, but I heard that the price is considerably more than $4k.

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