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My biggest problem with SolidWorks is the enforced updating to the latest version. Both are very similar to SolidWorks, but with fewer built in bells and whistles. I love it, but up through 2006, SP4.1, the fillets are still a bit twitchy. Solidworks started asa 3D modeller which was extended into generating 2D drawing representations. I always had a heck of a time with twitchy fillets that should go, but just wouldn't. The biggest difference I see is that AutoCad started as a 2D drafting program which was extended by extrusions, rotations and sweeps to become a 3D program. Then I switched to SolidWorks 2003 and haven't looked back since. I started with Autocad back with version 2.17 in 1985 and used it up through version 2001. It's just the furriners that have to use it. The US version of SolidWorks doesn't use a dongle. I've heard good things about that package but have neither used it nor even seen it in action.
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and to be fair I think the later versions of Autodesk Inventor would have to be included here. I first bought Autocad at version 2.0 and although it's come a long way, others have come farther.
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and even better off because you're not using something that was nursed over the years all the way from DOS. The constraints for a bolt, for instance, might be coaxial constraint with the mating bore, surface mating between the bottom of the bolt head and the mating part surface. You can then add whatever parts make up the assembly and have total control over the constraints which place them or you can wing it (not recommended). You drag the part intended as the base part onto the assembly from a vertical file bar. On the solid model, you can place specific constraints on features or their locations or allow constraints based on the way you built it using snaps.Īssemblies are pretty cool. What a PITA but like anything, it only takes a short time to relocate your toolsĭropping out 2D drawings is pretty easy and the drawing tracker makes sure that your 2D and solid model match. One thing that drove me nuts is that across 3 or 4 SE revisions, I think they changed all the tool icons 3 times. All of the snaps are there and automatically activate a small icon (end of segment, center of segment, quadrants, tangents, etc.). The functions you mention are simple and not that different from AutoCad. Stick with 512MB of ram as minimum, 1GB preferrable. In a few days I had a few parts produced but have to say it was more like a month before I felt more at ease with it. Knowing what tasks I wanted to perform, the SE tutorials started to bring things together. Moving to SolidEdge was an experience as things were not where I hoped they would be. Mayfieldtm, Remember where everything is that you need in Autocad? Now just forget it for SolidEdge My Autocad experience goes back to R13 and only a light user at that. This and Alibre are well worth looking at, they lack some features of the bigger boys but they also lack the same price tags. Now on offer at $295 with no yearly support.
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One that is interesting is one called Cadmax. Solid Works, Solid Edge, Alibre, Ashlar Vellum and a few more all in the same ball park. There are many programs out there doing roughly the same job. Later on if you aren't happy with the way the program is going making a change to another program is hard because of having to replicate the learning curve and the legacy drawings you have.įor the home user cost is a big issue and the support issues can be expensive, $1200 to $1600 per year whether you use support or not isn't funny. Once you get hooked on a program you are locked into it. It wasn't a better program, just better marketing.Īt the point that Bill's at now is a very important one because of the learning curve. What did happen and history proves this, is that it got more exposure and more people trained on it to put it number one. So what, most of the people ripping it off weren't going to buy a copy anyway so they lost no money.
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They removed the dongle in the US knowing full well it would get ripped of. What would happen is that everyone in school would learn my program because of the cost and employers would have an easy time finding workers who know it and wouldn't think twice to adapt my program and the rest is history.That's what happened with Autodesk and Autocad.
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If I ran a software company that did CAD programs, I would make my full featured cad program completely free to all students and hobbyists and charge the piss out of the buisness licenses.