If you are seeing yourself creating animations now and then, then I’d probably go with Modo, for a couple of reasons:
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- It will handle solidworks imports better. (Blender can do this, but I have had a few problems, and you have to use VRML format).
- It seems more aimed at Designers in general as well as industrial designers. (I believe blender didn’t even use units until fairly recently)
- I hear the Modo render engine is both faster and often achieves better results than Blenders.