I use FreeCAD and Solvespace mainly for personal use, but I use Fusion, Inventor, Solidworks, and Rhino at work with Inventor and Rhino being my two main CAD programs. We also have Revit and I had been using IDEAS back in 1997.
I love FreeCAD for the Python API, and the now-integrated FEM workbench. I've done some fun CFD work with this.
I like Fusion, but I do fear a web-based-only CAD. For this reason, I am looking at Alibre Atom for $199 for personal use. It seems really polished, easy to use, and it has been around for a while in different incantations.
Solvespace is great for four-bar linkages and other geometrical work, but there is no way I could spend the time doing a three-hundred part assembly when I could do it in Fusion or Inventor in much less time, and it could be shared or worked on by others more readily. Solvespace is amazing for what it is, and I will continue to use and follow it.
I love FreeCAD for the Python API, and the now-integrated FEM workbench. I've done some fun CFD work with this.
I like Fusion, but I do fear a web-based-only CAD. For this reason, I am looking at Alibre Atom for $199 for personal use. It seems really polished, easy to use, and it has been around for a while in different incantations.
Solvespace is great for four-bar linkages and other geometrical work, but there is no way I could spend the time doing a three-hundred part assembly when I could do it in Fusion or Inventor in much less time, and it could be shared or worked on by others more readily. Solvespace is amazing for what it is, and I will continue to use and follow it.