Some years ago when I used this software I changed laptops, had hard drive fails etc and I was always helped with either new codes or they just worked fine when re entering the key again. What seems to be happening here comes as no surprise. I lost a lot of customers through failures in the software. The final straw was I got asked to change a dimension on a drawing, one dimension, that was it nothing more nothing less.

I opened the drawing and for NO good reason all the detail views had disappeared. I tried to remake them and they were blank. I did literally everything and nothing worked. I had to redo the entire 3 sheets of assembly and the job was late, I lost everything after that. This was using 'pro' software, nothing pro about it if you ask me. Actually that's a little harsh, it has good features, but they simply do not work as a whole.
Other issues for me included exporting stp files for machining, they contained old deleted data which unfortunately for me, I didn't know, and parts got machined wrong because of it.

It's poor at best, littered with bugs, if I wanted bugs fixed it was a case of 'buy the next version', that just had more bugs on top of the old bugs. It's no secret, this forum is full of it. So I put in for a refund. It seemed to go so far then I too couldn't log in to those platforms you show. I tried every different email address I had... gmail, live.co.uk, hotmail.com and nothing worked. I sent an email every few months reminding them of how sad it was that I was having to do it, I gave up in the end.
I now use other software, didn't look back.

I use Alibre Design Expert for solid modelling and drafting. Plasticity 3d for surfacing and doing mad things that I never thought were possible.

Alibre has 3 different versions Atom being a basic version but I think they all include drafting.

They use perpetual licenses and if you want you buy the maintenance which gives you the updates, if you don't want you use it as is. Their license can be deactivated from within the software, if you have a hardware fail, you can login via the website and it shows what pc the license is on, you click release and stick it on something else.

Edited by user Thursday, June 18, 2026 11:24:30 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified