solid edge vs mechanical desktop

Good afternoon everyone,

I had the good?? fortune of being able to try out
Autodesk Mechanical desktop. Got so used to autocad
R14, now have to relearn so many things, "sigh".
Can what they have in mechanical desktop be called
parametric CAD. I have heard of parametric programing
for CAM. Would making a solid model using mechanical
desktop then exporting it to a CAM software be
considered as a kind of parametric CAM, as we can
change the parameters in the CAD program each time we
want to machine something slightly different before we
export it?

Is Solid Edge almost as good/as good as/not comparable
to Mechanical Desktop? Is the former two, then perhaps
I'll make an effort to get the Solid Edge origin to
try out since I have to go thro' the learning curve
all over again.

Peter

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