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you can do half of the things 3ds max can do for 0$
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I would beg to differ, Blender 3D has many useful features and I prefer to hard surface model with it (although texturing in 3DS Max is PROXXXX).
I've worked with Blender before. I never quite got used to it compared to Inventor. Though they do serve quite different purposes.The stress brown townysis simulations in Inventor are super coolio.
Autodesk inventor is trash, at least the educational versionSolidWorks master race
My school actually paid for like 100 copies of Inventor 2010 and we use it on pretty much everything. We make cheaply replacable 3d printed parts to take to out-of-state competitions as well as model our entire build before we even start doing stuff.