rfus, you clearly didn't read my posts thoroughly. I expressed NO preference, simply objected to gross misinformation about Inventor, which I use in addition to SW and Pro/E. I have examined a similar thread over on the Inventor forum, and found that there were some SW users who were quick to...
Chester, IV does not have configurations like Solidworks parts have, and assemblies are a little closer but still not there. I haven't seen IV since a few releases back though
your opinion is out-of-date and could be misleading. please consider that others might be influenced by this.
Autocad...
to correct some of the blatant misinformation posted here about Inventor:
Lack of configurations in Inventor would be hard to live without.
Inventor has SW style "configurations", and also iParts and iAssemblies.
The only reason Inventor looks like SW is because they copied the interface off...