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To: nasdaqian who wrote (915)	7/15/1999 9:22:00 AM
From: Hollywood	Respond to of 946

Bruce, My impressions on the various modelling packages from a users point of veiw: From a functionality standpoint, SolidWorks and SolidEdge are pretty comparable. SolidEdge has an advantage from a marketing side, as it can be used with Unigraphics, while SolidWorks and Catia are not complimentary. PMTC doesn't compete well on the low-end. In fact, they really seem to be losing steam overall. Mechanical Desktop has serious shortcomings, but is popular among small shops who don't do complicated modelling. On the other hand, I was told early this year that AutoDesk was coming out with a brand new modelling package with much better capabilities sometime this year, but I haven't heard anything since. Unigraphics is very capable. High end users with complicated assemblies would be best served by the likes of UG or Catia. By the way- what kind of problems are you having with SolidWorks. We just went to it and I like it a lot. What version are you running? Hollywood