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Originally Posted by OaklandStrom
Autodesk gives away full versions of Inventor to students. All your files get watermarked "Education Version", but the software is good for three years!
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They'll give it away to almost anyone - for good reason.
I was talking to my son's school about their pre-engineering program and the subject of Inventor came up (because it was free). I suggested they go to Monster.com and look at the number of jobs in New England for which they were asking for Inventor skills compared to SolidWorks or Pro/E, for example.
SolidWorks - over 100 jobs. Pro/E, 25+. Inventor - two, and one of those was AutoDesk themselves.
You can buy Alibre' personal for $199 and there are a number of other other low-cost products to do 3D modeling.