SOLIDWORKS

It's faster, easier and a little bit cheaper. Dramatic increased performance on large assemblies management

SOLIDWORKS is actually used by major corporations to design and create products for wide release, whereas Autodesk Inventor is usually only seen as an instructional tool to teach students the basics of 3d modeling so that they can adapt to more complex software with less effort later on. This is why SOLIDWORKS is better.

Creo is basically focusing on pure solid 3D modeling, while on the other hand the SOLIDWORKS' modeling approach is more parametric type and it is suiting for my purpose of use. Easy to use interface of SOLIDWORKS as compared to Creo. Features are easy to use. Just one click away while in other softwares things are more complex.

SOLIDWORKS is the best suited for the beginners,as it provides the simplest interface and simulation procedure. With SOLIDWORKS every simulation can be done easily and no professional training is required. SOLIDWORKS also has a drawing tab, which we can use to make General Assembly Drawings, add Bill of Materials and detailed engineering drawings. Thus, I can say SOLIDWORKS is the best companion for Mechanical Engineers

SOLIDWORKS is easier to use with just enough useful features to work with, the designing process is fluid like regular flow of design thinking. The other two software are very similar to SOLIDWORKS, Inventor and Solid Edge are more advanced in certain areas of application, while SOLIDWORKS is more cost effective.

Our team in China uses Siemens NX for the same reason our U.S. counterparts use SOLIDWORKS. Siemens provides similar features as SOLIDWORKS from the 3D CAD usage and Injection Molding Analysis.

Creo offers easier design for surface modeling. Inventor is simpler to use, however, it is much more limited in modeling. Overall, I find SOLIDWORKS has a good balance of simplicity and completeness at the same time.

Onshape is a direct competitor. It has great entry level pricing and it is easy to access with no installation required. Being a web based app there is sometime some lag being based in NZ. Management also have concerns over where the data is stored on the cloud. With SW we can control where it is stored

In many scenarios, SolidWorks and Inventor actually compare fairly evenly to each other. However, I believe that where SolidWorks really stands out is the fact that it was designed from the start as a 3D parametric solid modeling application whereas Inventor comes from a company that has a decade's worth of background in 2D CAD. This means that I feel that SolidWorks generally has a more naturally intuitive approach to 3D CAD in its interface. Onshape did initially offer a very attractive alternative being a cloud-based solution, however, upon deeper evaluation, it just hadn't quite reached the level of an enterprise-class solution that a company like mine needed. The new forays into cloud-based solutions from Dassault do have the potential to get there since they have SolidWorks at its core, but I still believe that a desktop-based CAD suite, and especially a localized server-based data management solution to be the best for most users today.

We have chosen SOLIDWORKS for its diffusion (many of our partners use it), for its ease of use, for its great experience in the development of sheet metal, and for its excellent after-sales service.

PTC Creo was used for several years but was too complex for users even when simple tasks were required.

SOLIDWORKS is way less complicated and easier to use, overall if you have had any computer training anyone can easily sit down and be trained within a minimal time to be able to use it efficiently and effectively. One of my employees went so far as to teach his 10-year-old daughter to use SOLIDWORKS and she models parts with ease now. She is just an average kid that likes to learn something new and I was very impressed with her detail to make the sheet metal part correctly and how easily she learned it with minimal training from her dad.

We use both actually. SW is great for 3D, but given we do not design products, just tooling/processing to make products, we use SW to convert 3D into 2D then do all the work in DraftSight.

I have not used alternatives to SOLIDWORKS. I've used SOLIDWORKS for the past 7 years as it was the standard in my past job. It has many more capabilities than 2D software and is a staple of our engineering department. I plan to continue to use SOLIDWORKS for many years to come.

DraftSight is the 2-d equivalent of SOLIDWORKS. Its main competitor is AutoCad by Autodesk, however I find DraftSight to be more user friendly. AutoDesk also makes Inventor, a 3-d software more similar to SOLIDWORKS however my experience with it was only limited to high school. From what I gather, SOLIDWORKS has a much larger share of the market and probably has more resources behind it, thus making it more user friendly and productive.

SOLIDWORKS is simple to use and new users become proficient in a short amount of time. Operation is intuitive and with the aid of the built-in tutorials, most of the skills required for day-to-day use become second nature. The ability to collaborate and communicate ideas to colleagues and customers all over the globe (often helping to negate language barriers) is simplified, as SOLIDWORKS is quickly becoming the de facto design tool.

SOLIDWORKS seems to be the choice from my engineers in terms of the 3D aspect vs AutoCAD. If the software meets the needs of the users, I try not to change things.

I have previously worked with Autodesk Inventor for designing very complex door mechanisms and large assemblies of drilling machines. I did not face any stability or performance issues

I only used Inventor for the 30-day free trial, which admittedly is not enough time to really give it a fair shot, especially since I had almost no 3D drawing experience before I used Inventor. There were two main things that pushed us toward SOLIDWORKS.
First was the support from the community. There are many people using SOLIDWORKS, which was very apparent every time I searched for a SOLIDWORKS issue on Google, I got an answer, usually a lot of them. While there are also a lot of people using Inventor, there didn't seem to be as many results when I looked up an issue or was trying to figure out how to do something. Also, the support from AutoDesk in the form of education (tutorials) seemed to be lacking. I didn't get the feeling AutoDesk wanted to help me get better at using their program so I'd purchase it.
The second reason we chose SOLIDWORKS was the payment plan. You buy SOLIDWORKS and you have it. You must have a subscription to continue getting updates, but you own the original version of the program you bought. With Inventor, it's all subscription-based. If you stop paying the subscription, you lose access to the program.

SOLIDWORKS provides not only aesthetic appearance of a product but also provides the capability to analyze behavior of structural and material components.

AutoCAD, in many ways, still looks and feels like you are designing something in the 1980's. It definitely caters more to the generation of people who are used to drafting. SOLIDWORKS is much more visually appealing, which counts for a lot when you will have lots of engineers using it as an everyday tool. Also, SOLIDWORKS is the standard among many companies.

I chose SOLIDWORKS after trying a few open-source solutions. They were great, however sometimes lacked in a few vital areas, in a way that a commercial, well-funded product shouldn't. Given my previous familiarity and confidence with SOLIDWORKS, I didn't bother looking any further!

Originally my company was using Onshape for CAD but many of our engineers were not familiar with the program and found it more difficult and less intuitive to use. SOLIDWORKS PDM vault works well so the cloud-based aspect of Onshape wasn't that unique.

Fusion 360 is a cloud-based CAD software with built-in rendering, simulation, and CAM programming functionality. SOLIDWORKS has all of these options at an additional cost. Fusion 360 may be a cheaper option; however, being in the cloud, simulations are costly and larger assemblies tend to slow down the process flow. SOLIDWORKS excels in each of these aspects as everything is local and up to the speed you would expect from your computer.

SOLIDWORKS enables manufacturers to become more productive in a relatively short amount of time.