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Many startups default to either expensive enterprise tools (CATIA/NX) or free "good enough" tools (Fusion 360/SolidWorks for Makers). But there is a third path: They are betting on you

Stop overpaying for enterprise CAD or struggling with free software. Here is how Inventor scales with your funding rounds. Every startup founder knows the drill: You have a brilliant mechanical design, a prototype in your head, and exactly zero dollars to waste on software that doesn't deliver.

But the moment you cross the chasm—hiring a mechanical engineer, outsourcing to a mold shop, or building a BOM for 1,000 units—Fusion’s limitations (slow large-assembly performance, lack of proper drawing automation, weaker surface modeling) become a bottleneck.