Solidworks has a free personal training version. It is basically equivalent to their commercial offering, but with limitations on filesharing, etc.
Solidworks has a free personal training version. It is basically equivalent to their commercial offering, but with limitations on filesharing, etc.
you can use mechanical desktop 6 power pack , it includes simple fea tools. i mean if your designing simple stuffs you can get an idea its behaviour. the software includes a library of common metal sections available in commerce along with their properties
I will just show you the market shares, from Top to Bottom (it reflects also, more or less, features, capabilities and costs) about 3D CADs:
- UG & Catia
- IDEAS & Pro-E
- SolidWorks & Solid Edge
- Inventor, Mechanical Desktop, Microstation.
Personally I suggest SolidWorks &/or Solid Edge: the best compromise.
Good luck!
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