$99 for parametric 3D history-based CAD? Now that’s negotiating!
Fat white guy in a suit doing kung-fu? It’s almost scary. There’s no telling what insanity this market might drive desperate CAD companies to. Who knows what this spells for the future of Alibre in the CAD market, but for the time being, It seems to mean that some users are gonna get a heck of a deal on a useful tool.
If you are doing simple design work, you might not need to pay thousands of dollars for your CAD software. You might not even have to pay thousands just for annual maintenance.
Is your current CAD software really worth what you pay for it? I don’t mean is it theoretically worth it, I mean, do you really get out of it what you pay in? Do you get a lot of benefit from the types of things they add to the software in every release? Maybe you don’t really need all of that. Maybe your CAD supplier has lost touch with their user base. If you are doing designs of simple rectangular stuff, you don’t need a big CAD system, maybe it’s time to stop losing money on overpriced tools.
For those of you living under a rock, today Alibre announced that its $999 software is selling for $99. A thousand dollar experiment is expensive to just see if it could do what you need it to do. But a hundred dollar experiment is something you just can’t pass up.
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