Everybody that does serious CAD for a living stands by their tool of choice as though it were the most sacred of religions. Some of the most fierce are (strangely enough) Rhino users. It's crazy!

I wish CAD packages would work more towards interoperability. SpaceClaim is a big help with this, as it can read almost any format and make direct modifications to almost any geometry.

So what do you guys think? Is it better to stick with one monolithic package for all-things-CAD, or to use specific packages for their specific advantages?

In my point of view, using only ONE package to do all should be an utopy. I did not think one software could build "well" our 3D data from the styling to the tooling...

Also I did not like the "trust" position for this kind of soft... Cause in case of only ONE soft stay in the industrial market, which price we will pay for buy it, without concurances?

At this moment, many "translated" issues (move from one software to another one) come from the complexity and the different level of all these siftware we are using now. Means we can not use all the new functions according to the last release of our sofware and we need to find some "standard" according to our knowledge of the industry where we are working day by day.

For me all A-Class standard from the car industry come from at least 10 years ago... Anyway, these standards are good but probably it will be nice to make some adjustements to match with the new tools and working way. But it is another story!