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Attribute Ratings
- Altair Inspire and Vectorworks Landmark are tied in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
Altair Inspire
100%
1 Rating
10.0
Vectorworks Landmark
100%
1 Rating
Support Rating
10.0
Altair Inspire
100%
2 Ratings
Vectorworks Landmark
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Altair Inspire
For any smaller company developing products that use motors and actuators to do work and need the best of class performance, Altair Inspire is the simplest to learn to use. Our first project required building booms to handle an offset load. I could not get SOLIDWORKS motion to simulate the movements to be done. It took less than 8 hours to fully define and run the first simulation to find excavator type boom design was not going to be light enough or rigid enough for the product.
Owner
6K ProductsMachinery, 1-10 employees
Vectorworks Landmark
Vectorworks is just as useful for perfectly measured, hard-line CAD drawing as it is for making beautiful presentation drawings and renderings. Tools in the application allow you to transition between working drawings and presentation drawings without modifying the underlying geometry. DWG exchange with other design team members works very well
Associate Landscape Architect
HNP, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees
Pros
Altair Inspire
- Defining the actuators, pin joints, sliding joints is very easy.
- Defining a motion sequence is straightforward.
- The UI tends to make you follow a sequence of steps to be successful in doing a motion simulation and finite element analysis study on a design.
- The motion simulation results are automatically transferred to the FEA solver.
Owner
6K ProductsMachinery, 1-10 employees
Vectorworks Landmark
- I tell people that Vectorworks is CAD for people who know how to draw. You can control the appearance of all the objects on a layer, or you can tweak the way a single object looks. Most of the barriers to producing good-looking, legible drawings are removed.
- Vectorworks Landmark is made for landscape architects.Creating hardscape, planting, and irrigation plans is pretty straightforward.
Associate Landscape Architect
HNP, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees
Cons
Altair Inspire
- Currently, we have to import the SOLIDWORKS assembly and reposition it in space.
- Currently, there are no mesh refinement capabilities.
Owner
6K ProductsMachinery, 1-10 employees
Vectorworks Landmark
- There's a bit of inconsistency in the operation of some tools that would appear to the user to be more similar.
- Importing complex Revit models takes a long time and, if the model has a lot of symbols in it, the import might not finish.
Associate Landscape Architect
HNP, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
Altair Inspire
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Altair Inspire Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—Vectorworks Landmark
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$153 per month
Vectorworks Landmark Editions & Modules
Edition
Perpetual Without Maintenance | $3,045 |
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Perpetual with Maintenance | $3,715 |
Subscription (monthly) | $1532 |
Subscription (Yearly) | $128 ($1530)3 |
- none
- per month
- per month (billed annually)
Additional Pricing Details
—Support Rating
Altair Inspire
Altair Inspire 10.0
Based on 2 answers
When I needed clarification on how do use a feature or best way to define the constraints for a design problem, the response was quick and solved my needs.
Owner
6K ProductsMachinery, 1-10 employees
Vectorworks Landmark
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Altair Inspire
Working Model, MathCad, Dynamic Designer, Algor, and Mathlab had poor UI's and poor ways to define actuator and motor motion profiles. The force results and vectors were not easy to input into the FEA software. SOLIDWORKS Motion does not have an excellent way to define a linear actuator or its motion profile.Altair provides a UI that guides you through defining your linear actuator or motor's motion profile quickly.
Owner
6K ProductsMachinery, 1-10 employees
Vectorworks Landmark
I was an AutoCAD user before switching to Vectorworks when coming to work with my current firm. Vectorworks Landmark includes tools specifically designed for landscape architects - it's not an AutoCAD add-on. The initial investment for a new seat is much less than AutoCAD, and the Service Select program pushes down the annual upgrade cost even more
Associate Landscape Architect
HNP, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Altair Inspire
- We have completed a proof of concept product for disabled people that will be a new market area for our company.
- We are expanding the number of special projects we will do every year that requires motors and actuators.
- The only negative is being busier means expanding at a higher rate than expected.
Owner
6K ProductsMachinery, 1-10 employees
Vectorworks Landmark
- There is a learning curve for new employees, as regionally Vectorworks is not in wide use and generally not introduced in the academies
- However, because it is more intuitive as far as WYSIWYG drawing, most people pick up the basics pretty quickly.
- It's a really powerful suite of tools. Sometimes it's good to spend some time afforded by a larger project to explore ways to use the software more efficiently (e.g., improving worksheets, using different smart object tools, etc.)
Associate Landscape Architect
HNP, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees