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Having used and supplied both, I’ve put together a licencing and feature comparison. While this was a small group considering that both products have hundreds of thousands of installations, we believe that the results are valid in assessing overall capabilities.”įor more, listen to my conversation with Kurland.With CAD systems constantly changing features, versions, licencing and subscription models, two of the most popular comparisons is between Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks. He concluded, “Readers need to understand that this report provides a glimpse of certain expert opinions. Its controversial nature notwithstanding, Kurland stands by the study. “While we admit to some bias in selecting the functions to be compared, particularly as it relates to the mechanical interest in BIM, all the functional areas selected for comparison are important.” “Readers might ask how unbiased this analysis is, since it was sponsored by the author of one of the products being compared,” Kurland noted. Sustainability, a category omitted from the evaluation, could have conceivably favored SolidWorks, as SolidWorks ships with Sustainability Xpress, a tool for measuring environmental impact of designs. Both programs facilitate import/export of common file formats such as IGES, STEP, or DWG, allowing their users to work with architectural modelers. However, Autodesk Inventor offers BIM exchange tools that allow users to export mechanical models into Autodesk Revit, an architectural modeling program from Autodesk. Neither of the packages compared in the study is meant for architectural modeling or BIM. In essence, could mechanical parts be designed for use within a BIM system? Areas of focus included: managing the space requirements for the mechanical design within the building model, bi-directional data transfer, associative data management, and UI (user interface) issues.” He clarified, “The study was not asking whether each system could perform BIM-rather, the seven questions we asked the experts were focused on the interaction between a mechanical system and BIM. Kurland acknowledges that one evaluation category, the integration of BIM (building information modeling), tips the scale in Autodesk’s favor, a sponsor of the published paper. In my estimation, the functional questions do not favor any specific vendor or product.” TechniCom’s analysts independently selected the questions. 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