Alibre Inc Reviews 2

Have been using their CAD for 18 months.
Started with Atom and upgraded to Design after a year

If you want in to CAD world then this is the easy route to take, no subscriptions and your work is kept offline on your own computer
The bang for your buck is as good as it gets, especially Alibre Atom.
It's only once you start getting quite advanced that you start looking at their high end packages

I've tried quite a few CAD packages and they can drive you mad with the lack of intuition for a new user.
Within a month with Alibre I was doing locomotive plans

Plus Alibre has a major function called Assembly, which lets you build and MOVE your creations so you can test the tolerances and interferences

The software isn't perfect but with experience you figure workarounds and workflow tactics to eliminate any of the ongoing buggy bits that all these CAD packages can throw up

A US based company that still does perpetual licences where most of the industry has gone to a subscription model. The user support is world class in my opinion.