I would love to see honest competition and SW come out with a non-student license for maybe $100-1000 for people looking to run 3D printers or who are just doing extrusion and sheet metal fab. Trying using any 3D CAD after SolidWorks and you'll find the lower cost ones feel really clunky and have about 1/2 the capability of SW and the ones which are really powerful feel really clunky and un-intuitive compared to SW. But it is still really really far from replacing SW user base which is still actively growing. There's growth there and even a bit of ingenuity. People with one seat, small shops doing simple design, individuals with 3D printers are using these as opposed to SW (legal or otherwise). What we're seeing are a lot of low cost/no cost alternatives like Fusion, OnShape and some other smaller name programs. Catia is still rocking but that's serious massive scale firm shit that sits around $35k a seat so it's not a real competitor for 90% of the professional market. I have no idea about SolidEdge because I've never met a user in the wild ever. Dinosaurs like MicroStation and NX are pretty much only sticking around because of a few government contract. Inventor is getting the shit kicked out of it. I don't see anything else professionally challenging it.
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