I have never tried to build it, but I imagine it is still a nightmare to compile. Where I am in life these days I leave that to the package maintainers.

Solidworks is terrible and chock full of antipatterns. I haven't used autodesk in a good long while--my last memory with it was pretty bad. I was on a team that won a design contest from Autodesk--the prize for which was a laptop pre-loaded with the autodesk suite. The kicker was their software crashed regularly on that machine even under light use...