I will likely look at the maker version of SW and I plane to buy Bricscad Mechanical, I am leasing Alibre and it works but it isn't SW, your assessment is good though but its not bad and I could make it work. Thanks to Autodesk irritations I am not interested in Fusion 360 so there it is for me.
I use SW when working on Machine drawings, but that isn't my primary drawings.
I am also impressed with Solidworks. My grandson has taken classes and is quite good at it. He is encouraging me to learn it and I am trying.
The only fly in the ointment with the makers version is the EULA stipulates it cannot be used for profit projects.
Well, as long as their license servers stay up. It needs to phone the mothership at least once every 30 days or it stops working. So if the company changes hands (like it did a decade or so ago) you could lose your license (I believe those not on maintenance at the time were granted a truly perpetual license, but one that was forever node-locked to the machine it was installed on, so not really perpetual). I detest rental software and anything else that holds the files I create hostage.
Company I work for had like 15 perpetual licenses of AutoCAD 2014 and 12 2018 when they switched to lease model we updated the 2018's but left the 2014's alone and AutoDesk will no longer give us a code to load the 2014 perpetuals which we used for engineers. I too detest lease software and AutoDesk has a black mark in my book, Go Bricscad.
