Share your preference via the poll and your thoughts on the subject, with the design droplets community, via the comments. Which CAD Package do you use most? Why? Is it your favorite or is it based on employer or school preferences?
If your answer is ‘other’ please list the name of the CAD package in the comments.
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My university uses Pro E but the support and actual teaching of it is EXTREMELY poor. I have recently got my own copy of Solidworks, and although I am only just starting to learn it, I much prefer it. When looking at requirements of skills for placements and jobs, it seemed to be the SW is the most widely used. As you can imagine this is somewhat frustrating, feeling that uni is not properly preparing me for the outside world.
Although I prefer SW, I would probably find Pro E more manageable if I was properly taught it. At the moment my course hardly uses CAD (I’m nearing the end of 3rd year in a 5 year MEng course; it’s shocking!) I realise that it takes quite a bit of time to learn a CAD package, and a lot of that time will be your own personal time, but it would be nice to have more structured support at uni. None of my lecturers seem competent enough in it to even help with questions we have…