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Raymond Kurland is president of TechniCom Group LLC and its principal consultant and editor. His firm, founded in 1989, specializes in analyzing MCAD and PLM systems and has been involved in reviewing and comparing such software since 1989. Ray frequently consults with both vendors and users. Ray has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Engineering from Rutgers University and from NYU. His career included stints with Bell Telephone Laboratories, IBM, and Dassault Systemes. Ray can be reached at rayk@technicom.com.
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Hi Ray,
My name is Rob and I am an Engineer with InstantUpright – See website below.
In short we are a Aluminium scaffold company looking at moving to a 3D package. We currently use 2D autocad for all of our designs, and have a database containing over 20 years worth of Autocad drawings.
The main software contenders are between Solidworks & Inventor. I am wondering would you be able to give me an unbiased opinion.
You understand what it is like talking to each of the vendors whom obviously push their own product.
Looking forward to hearing any advice that you may have.
Kind regards
Rob
P.S. I am now following you on Twitter! You can follow me back on Twitter @Barrer1
A good way to start would be to go to my website at http://www.cad-portal.com and download the paper on how to select an MCAD system.
Contact me at rayk at Technicom.com if any questions?
Thanks for the heads up on this new company startup. I am back to using Inventor, as my school year is up and so is the SolidWorks student license.
I totally understood all of that