TopSolid CADCAM 7: CAD
TopSolid CADCAM 7 is a more modern and more powerful CAD solution than SolidWorks is.
I’m sure that the statement above is a very hard thing for SolidWorks users to believe and accept. One reason for this is that many SolidWorks uses have a background of using a CAM product like Mastercam, Gibbscam, Surfcam, Featurecam, etc. all of which started life as wireframe modelers. As time went on these products desperately needed solid modeling tools so they licensed Parasolid which was then grafted on to their existing wireframe modeler. Years latter it can clearly be seen that this approach to grafting the Parasolid kernel onto a wireframe modeler isn’t the way to go and results in a cobbled together approach that’s not very powerful, wastes a ton of time, requires wireframe extraction of geometry, forces you to tell it what you want to select, etc. When you compare SolidWorks to the solid modeling tools you get with Mastercam, Gibbscam, Featurecam, etc. SolidWorks looks like the best thing since sliced bread.
via CADCAM Technology Leaders: TopSolid CADCAM 7: CAD.
