[scottapotamas]

As CAD tools go SW is on the lower end of the scale. Though the price increases have been feeling pretty abusive in the recent years.

Creo has come down relative to it's ProE days and is priced similarly to SW(?), and I believe NX still starts at double to triple per seat.

ANSYS (specifically Fluent) and similar simulation tools have eyewatering per-seat prices, though I'm a little out of date to know if they're less horrible about multicore licences etc.