Alibre Design Personal Edition

I’m very pleased and satisfied with Alibre Design. It is just as advertised: easy to learn and use (compared to PRO/E) and amazingly powerful for the price. It will not do everything that PRO/E will, but the necessary core functionality is definitely there. It is user friendly and a pleasure to work with on a daily basis, and don’t let the lower price fool you, this is definitely professional level mechanical design software that will get the job done, at an affordable price.

Do be sure to get the trial version and make sure that there are no hardware compatibility issues before you buy. I had to upgrade my video card (NVIDIA Quadro) driver to the one recommended by Alibre to resolve display issues while in drawing workspaces. That was simple enough to do, it works great now: I highly recommended AD 8.2!

Posted: Monday, September 12, 2005