A quick comparison between Solidworks and inventor comparing different prices , market share as well as different features

1. SolidWorks

2. About
 SolidWorks is a solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) and
computer-aided engineering (CAE) software
 SolidWorks is published by French Company Dassault Systèmes.
 Over two million engineers and designers at more than 165,000
companies were using SolidWorks as of 2013.

3. Editions
SolidWorks Electrical
SolidWorks Professional
SolidWorks Standard
SolidWorks Simulation
SolidWorks CAM

4. Industries
Aerospace
Automotive
Computer
Construction
Consumer Products
Education
Electronics
Energy
Engineering
Government
Manufacturing

5. Customers

6. Formats
ACIS
ACIS SAT
ASM
BMP
DRW
DWG
DXF
IFC
IGES
IGS
INVENTOR
JPEG
Parasolid
PROE
SAT
SolidWorks
STEP
STL
STP
ACIS
ACIS SAT
DWG
DXF
HOOPS META FILE
HPGL/PLT
IGES
IGS
JPEG
Parasolid
PARASOLID XT
PDF
PROE
SAT
SolidWorks
STEP
STL
STP
Writable files Readable files

7. Competitors

8. Market-Share

9. Comparison

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18. References
 http://redstack.com.au/support/blog_posts/autodesk-inventor-vs-
solidworks-review
 http://cad.softwareinsider.com/compare/34-54/Inventor-
Professional-vs-SolidWorks-Professional
 http://cad.softwareinsider.com/l/24/SolidWorks
 www.inventor_2013_detail_brochure_a4_en
 http://www.capterra.com/product-data-management-
software/spotlight/92707/SolidWorks%20Enterprise%20PDM/Soli
dWorks
 https://www.solidworks.com/sw/docs/3DS_2017_SWK_TopTen_D
atasheet.pdf
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer-
aided_design_editors