Alibre Design vs Inventor
User Ratings & Reviews
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Ease-of-Use
4.6 / 5
4.2 / 5
Value for Money
4.8 / 5
4 / 5
Customer Support
4.7 / 5
4.1 / 5
Functionality
4.6 / 5
4.5 / 5
Last Review Written
September 5, 2024
August 30, 2024
Pros/Cons
Pros
- A big plus on top of this is the customer support and forums, both of which are quick to help. This is the most positive experience I've had with a cad package.
- Feature/cost ratio is outstanding and the evolution of the product keeps it competitive in performance.
- The new versions seem to be becoming more feature rich allowing me to do more things at an easier and fast rate. The price is wonderful and allowing for more progress through management is important.
Cons
- And my largest gripe are that the user manual is pathetic, and their website is even worse when it comes to understanding featuresbor troubleshooting.
- Modeling errors are often ambiguous. Stability has occasionally been an issue, especially with more complicated geometries.
- There is no way to duplicate a drawing using a different configuration of the same part/assembly.
Pros
- The price, for education, is great. Also, I am very impressed with the user interface and the ease of use.
- It has a great ability to adapt to the tastes of people as you can customize the interface as well as its tools having the ability to customize the packages.
- ILogic is amazing, it's like having a programming language built into Inventor, a powerful way to automate some parts of design and fabrication.
Cons
- Premade projects are difficult to introduce to beginner students. Having to send all part files with assembly makes sharing assemblies between teacher and students very difficult.
- Too many features, some of them are hard to find. With everything that this program can do I understand making every function noticable is impossible but I did google a few "How-Tos.
- So if you insert 100 Identical components, it’s gonna take you forever to constrain them in your assembly. Also there is no assembly mirror that associative.
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Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Desktop - Mac
Desktop - Windows
Desktop - Linux
Desktop - Chromebook
On-Premise - Windows
On-Premise - Linux
Mobile - Android
Mobile - iPhone
Mobile - iPad
Support and Training
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Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Chat
Training
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Documentation
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In Person
Live Online
Webinars
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