Which software is preferable for tool design
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Personally speaking I prefer SolidWorks. I have used it for more than 7 years and 3 years only for Tool Design (Press Die-Cold & Die Casting) and found it more user friendly and fast for Tool Designing.
I haven't used Creo but as far as Pro/Engineer goes, It doesn't have abilities to do boolean operations on Solids in Part modeling as Powerful as SolidWorks.
On Other CATIA can do almost everything but I won't ask you to go for a full package software just for Tool Design.