> It seems that the competition never ends, but I will believe it when I see it !

Yes, that certainly sounds interesting. I believe it will be a version of Concepts3d, since Punch! Software bought that company quite recently: http://www.csi-concepts.com/PR/pr110906.htm .

There is a demo available for Concepts3d here: http://www.csi-concepts.com/demoDownload.htm, that probably gives a pretty close idea of what the new one will be like.

I kind of doubt that it will be actual "competition" though - I would be very surprised if it had any of the signature features of MoI, such as anti-aliased curve display, smooth and fast surface shading with hidden-line display, keyboard-free tablet friendly operation, clean mesh output with n-gons, simplified UI without legacy pull-down menu/toolbars, construction-line tool for accurate drawing without getting in your face too much, .... These are the kinds of things that are unique to MoI and just aren't found in any other existing CAD program (I guess some have the hidden line display... :) ). Of course this remains to be seen but it is pretty unlikely.

This is not to say that concepts3d is bad - on the contrary, it is quite useful and powerful itself, and having a $99 version of the full package (as they seem to be describing) will be a great tool to add to the arsenal.

I can see it as being a very useful companion to MoI, you could bring in geometry over there, do dimensioning and printing and certain modeling operations that might work better in there (since I think it has the ACIS geometry kernel, some kinds of filleting and shelling operations will work better in it).

- Michael