SolidWorks
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 31, 2025first mention
Aug 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“The users don’t care whether designing the bridge made me feel powerful and wizardly because I used a crayon rather than Solidworks.”
“That's exactly how I use Solidworks (and similar parametric CAD software) all the time.”
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“I would rank Solidworks way up there in usability and functionality.”
professional in commercial, industrial and aerospace settingson “Show HN: AI in SolidWorks”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 7
“We use Solidworks, Altium Designer and JetBrains tools for our work.”
“The users don’t care whether designing the bridge made me feel powerful and wizardly because I used a crayon rather than Solidworks.”
“I've tried to get into Solidworks, Fusion, and FreeCAD several times, but every time I come back to programmatic CAD”
“I use Solidworks all the time”
“That's exactly how I use Solidworks (and similar parametric CAD software) all the time.”
“I would rank Solidworks way up there in usability and functionality.”
“If I didn't have a Solidworks license and Solidworks wasn't Windows only, I'd have switched to Steam OS or another linux distro”