The “Big” tools like Pro E, Alias, Catia, NX - those all have a lower market share but they’ve been in the game for even longer, so big commercial players who’ve been doing this forever still keep those as part of their legacy tool chain and that effects the whole supply chain. You won’t go to Asia and see factories who are using Fusion on the day to day, you’ll see SW and Pro E.
We have tried building products and vehicles in Rhino and didn’t like it because of the lack of a proper feature tree.
We prefer to already in the concept phase already have a surfacing model that will evolve to the manufacture-ready files.
Alias does have a good mix of history-based vs. ’ freeform’ modeling so has grown into a great CAD package.
And don’t be turned off if the majority of designers use Solidworks, you will only have a favorable position if you want to work at the big companies that do use Alias or Catia.
Does anyone have any experience with both Solidworks/Catia and Alias? Will there be a large learning curve if you decide to step to Alias?