Re: CAD software?

From: Douglas Greenwood (Laser Prototypes Southeast)
To: Brock Hinzmann (SRI  International)
Cc: David Roach (Nova Scotia Research Foundation), RP-ML
Date: Friday, January 27, 1995
Subject: Re: CAD software?
     With regard to your query on a survaey of CAD systems used by service 
bureaus, we at Laser Prototypes use MSC/Aries, SDRC IDEAS and 
PRO/Engineer, running on SGI and HP workstations. We have the most 
experience with Aries and IDEAS, with Aries ahead overall. I believe that 
Aries worked with 3D Systems early on in developing the STL file 
interface, and we have never had problems with it. I use ARIES all the 
time for solid modeling on an HP workstation and have been very pleased. 
The new release of Aries is based on the solid modeling kernel from 
Spatial Technologies, which I understand will (ultimately once 
translators are written) allow seamless transfer of solid model databases 
between CAD systems which are also based on the same kernel.
     We are new users at Pro, so I can't speak too much about it.
     So our votes are (1) MSC/Aries, (2) SDRC IDEAS and (3) Pro/Engineer.
Thanks
Doug Greenwood
Laser Prototypes Southeast
910-326-6010 voice
910-326-1261 fax