For ID’s, the tools of choice are Alias, an Autodesk product, Rhino and SolidWorks.
For Industrial Designers who conceptualize the form, ergonomics and user experience, a more select class of modeling and visualization tools is used.Ĭurrently, the “big three” MCAD tools of choice in Silicon Valley are SolidWorks, a subsidiary of Dassault Systems CREO from PTC (formerly known as ProEngineer) and NX (formally known as Unigraphics) a division of Siemens. Software tools for Mechanical engineers and Industrial designers consist of MCAD (Mechanical Computer-Aided Design) along with PDM (Product Data Management) and, in some cases, FEA (Finite Element Analysis) for virtualizing material strength, heat flow, etc. Yet with the transition from software to hardware, these companies are presented with new and unfamiliar challenges: longer development lead times and capital investment in tooling and parts inventory, and mechanical engineering software tools. What can CATIA do that solidworks can't? (or the other way around) Why does dassault systemes make two CAD packages? How do CATIA and Solidworks compare to packages like NX or Creo or others on the market? From my understanding CATIA is a more beefy version of Solidworks with Creo being a competitor to solidworks and NX being a competitor to CATIA.Silicon Valley, best known as a mecca for software and semiconductor development for decades, has also attracted much hardware development lately with mega software giants, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon developing their own consumer electronics. Next, after looking into all the different CAD packages I can't really seem to understand the differences. So, my first question is which software I should spend my time learning now I'm comfortable with soldiworks? Occasionally I see things like NX or creo asked for but it seems they are less popular. After looking at job adverts it seems that solidworks is often asked for but CATIA is also popular. I'm keen to work within the automotive (or maybe aerospace who knows) industry when I graduate but being competitive I'd like to improve my CV by learning the software I'd need (CAD is also a bit of a hobby).
I'd say I'm fairly confident in soldiworks now. Im a mechanical engineering student and have been using Solidworks (and Inventor) now for around four years and have, over the last year, been learning the more advanced modules such as animation and motion studies, fluid flow simulation and stress analysis.
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