John,
Producing drawings is pretty easy with Alibre, although the drawing component lacks some of the features that hard-core CAD folks crave. It will do cross-sections, details, and broken and partial views as well as create drawings of assemblies, with or without exploding them, and will create a BOM. The drawing failings are related to more advanced options and that hasn't been a major problem for me. Alibre Expert comes with motion simulation, but it's a new feature and I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.
Alibre Express is free but feature limited so you could download that to get a feel for the program as time allows or go for the 30-day trial if you need to evaluate more advanced features or complex assemblies and can afford to spend some dedicated time with it over the short term. I spent less than 40 hours with the trial before handing over a CC number and had virtually no prior CAD experience, despite half-hearted attempts to learn DesignCAD and IntelliCAD. If you d/l the trial, expect a phone call or two with incentives offered. I didn't find that objectionalbe, but some might.
There's also a very good Alibre forum and the folks there are not shy about making their opinions known. The manual should also be available from their downloads area.
Mike