Less than six months after launching Inventor, Autodesk is back with Release 2. In many ways, Inventor competes directly with Autodesk's other MCAD product, Mechanical Desktop (MDT). But as was the case with Release 1, Inventor Release 2 and MDT still remain suitable for different tasks. Inventor 2 fills many of the functional gaps noted in Release 1, but it still provides no surfacing capabilities, making it unsuitable for tool and die makers and consumer product designers. MDT, meanwhile, has become stronger in these areas. Despite its lack of surfacing, Inventor's closest competitors are solid modelers such as Solid-Works 2000, Unigraphics' Solid Edge, and PTC's Pro/Engineer.
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