I don't know if this is only for me, but I found a report regarding this project here
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/CS285/PROJ_06/A_Hoover/AH...
"The most important lesson to be taken from my experience with this project is that no single tool is sufficient to solve a reasonably complicated engineering problem"
"In an ideal world an open standard interchange format that allows users to move between different modeling packages, leveraging the strengths of each to solve complex design problems, would be available and implemented by all major modeling packages." That was interesting to read in the article. Having never worked with solid works or Slide, it was nice to be made aware of the issues faced in that field of work.