About eight years ago, I left engineering to enter management consulting. I am itching to do some small projects/inventions in my free time. What is the cheapest non-trial, non-student version of Solidworks or ProEngineering. Back in the day, I used the latter on HP and SGI machines. As I recall, we were paying about 20k per seat for ProE and Solidworks was 5k, which we did not use. Ideally, I would like to pay under 1k with no maintenance. I can live without certain manufacturing and drawing features if that brings the price down.
Alternative 3D engineering software would also be considered.
Thanks for your help in advance.
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