Compare SW popularity to other CAD software.

What specific links would you use?

Autodesk? That's the 2D guys.

Jon'll have a heyday with this. `;^)

Total links for home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/inventor_surface_tutorials.htm are

38 Total links for home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/solidworks_surface_tutorials.htm are 7

etc.

Remember, these are links, not usage or hits. That being said, what are the chances that the SW links mainly represent people with seats of SW since every current seat of SW contains a link to the mothership?

Harvested by bots of some sort, I'd guess?

Wouldn't think so.

Does that mean solidworks surfacing is that much easier.

Total links for forum.solidworks.com/swforum/ are 15 Total links for groups.google.com/group/comp.cad.solidworks are 266 Total links for discussion.autodesk.com/forum.jspa?forumID=78 are 768

Try

I've looked at a lot of links, that being one. What blew my mind was that mySQL was in league with the big boyz. So was Linux. But I digress. ACAD has the most links of any CAD that I could tell. SW was very respectable considering it is a niche market compared to ACAD.

Notice that almost all the SW links are reported on AllTheWeb and AltaVista.

That looked typical of most of the CAD links. I was surprised that Google didn't have any and it seems to be the predominant search engine today.

When you search AllTheWeb for

only a paltry 28,100 hits. Autodesk has 101,000, SolidEdge has 665, and PTC has 33,600.

In Google you can use this syntax: link:

1,260 392 4,410 1,120 124 1,120

So apparently the link checker doesn't know about Google's syntax.

AllTheWeb does know about the link: syntax and give SW 25,600 links.

= 24

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