I just went through Journey Ed's (on-line educational marketing) catalog. SW is pigeon holed as Mechanical Design Software. Want surfacing? Not from SW. General Design, again not from SW. The same is true with:
. Architectural Design . Electrical =B7 GIS Mapping =B7 Land Development =B7 Technical Drawing =B7 Technical Writing =B7 Visualization
Autodesk has all these bases covered in spades. PTC gets more exposure than SW. So does Inventor. Only SE is conspicuous by its total absence. At one point SW tried it's hand at getting into electrical and tech drawing by making Visio available. SW brings some really powerful capabilities to architecture design in StructureWorks (at least for concrete structures). SW is 3D so why can't it be used for GIS mapping and land development? One reason is the 1KM limit. Another is SW insistance on using the excuse that it is just general Mechanical design software whenever somebody wants to use it for something like casting or forging design.