A or B

I have two external job possibilities coming up locally.
One company uses SolidEdge and the other Inventor
The jobs themselves and the companies are of a muchness really but I
will need to pick up on using their particular CAD
Which one of these do people consider the easiest or most similar to
SolidWorks?
I havent kicked tires on these products since I originally shopped for
CAD
thanks for any experiences and opinion

 

Which one of these do people consider the easiest or most similar to

We looked at Inventor R1 beta before getting SW99. I had already learned SW
enough to recognize that the workflow in IV is very similar to SW (In fact,
I thought it was a chromed-up knock-off). I tried the SE modeler trial
version at about the same time and found it different and difficult. If
things haven't changed big time in the last 7 years, then I'd say IV would
be your best bet.

Maybe download Inventor LT (free for now) to try it out. I'm not aware of
anything from SE you could try, but it might be worth a look.

 

Funny had much the same shopping experience here
Inventor was too immature and cost significantly more NZ$
(5-6 years ago 0.40c to US dollar now almost 0.80! - don't get me
started on global slosh...)
I had the same reaction to SolidEdge as you too.
A personal thing maybe cos when I took an introductory SW course at
the local polytechic to check it out there were some guys there doing
much the same thing who couldnt relate to it well and ended up
purchasing SolidEdge
Unfortunately LT is US and Canada only.. but thanks for the thought
Some recent blurb and videos I found shows me it isnt presently so
different from SW or at least its fairly recognisable

thanks for the input

 

I taught SE for a couple years. It isn't a bad program. If you don't
get their books or training you will never figure it out. Unlike SW it
constrains you to a certain workflow. But once you get used to it you
can really fly. I never built anything really big with it. But I know
people who do. It makes nice drawings and it has a simplify feature
for assembly parts and drawings.

TOP

 

for someone who is so perpetually disappointed with your investment in
SW, I would guess that you would want to pick the product that is
*least* like SW.

Good luck to you. Nice knowing you. Don't let the door hit you in the
ass. If you need a reference, let me know.

Daisy

 

well thanks babe ;o)

I just want to make it easier to get up to speed for the employers
sake
I'm not fussed either way really
The nature of the work is a little different from what I've done in
the past too

Disappointed is the wrong word
The reality of being in business on your own with perpetually broken
software is that you get pretty f'd off with it
and throw your toys on a fairly regular basis mostly cos it directly
affects your income.
You cant help but resent the upgrade treadmill and sounding off about
stuff like the new UI
It will be good to to offload the daily stress and worries to someone
else for a while

Keep pushing them up Daisy
later

 

BTW its now 1:45am and I'm still working...
8-5pm is going to be like a holiday every day in comparison ;o)

 

How you thought of having training, so that you, can work faster????

&$%^^$

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wow, look at the amount of toys being thrown at me, lol
soz, could not resist! <EG)


Only kidding, Have a good one!

 

luckily my aim is poor at this hour of the morning...

 

If I had to pick one of those, I'd look at the level of support in the
area or which company had better standards and procedures set up. Any
CAD software is a pain if there isn't a resonable amount of
organization involved.

Josh
www.solidsmack.com

 

Why not choose option C. Talk your new employer into upgrading to
Solidworks since it is "THE ONLY WAY TO GO". Then you'd be familiar with
it an not have to go thru any new training.

I've uses Solidedge and hated it after using SW. There are several more
steps to doing the simple things that SW does. One of the areas is in
context relations. You have to create an extra entity in SE to add in
"linked" features. This would be like offsetting a face by 0 or creating
a separate sketch entity that would represent the holes you want to
relate to and then use those extra features for the incontext things.
You also have to create extra edges for using sillouette edges of
cylindrical items and you couldn't use the end edge for adding a
coincident or colinear relation.

Actually just kidding about option C. Good luck which ever way you go.
Let us know which software package you like after using either one.

 

BTW another of my tips for unwary cadsters ...
for those contemplating self employment... when you work alone its
important to have good support.
I have corrupted my neighbours dog so that it likes to hang out here
( mostly cos of free scones..) and it fills the role well
Not a lot of criticism and a short memory..also no trash to take out
and no lawns to mow.....

Here is a very rare photograph of things going well..this was taken
about the same time Dubya fell of his bike...
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1467/yeahai1.jpg

Here is another capturing the deep silent philosophical face to face
exchanges we often have when things have just f'd out....this was
taken in the last half hour... (
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/214/yupem8.jpg

'every day in every way I get a little better"
thank you

 

seriously this is my neighbours dog
they asked me to look after it while they went on a 2 month holiday
about 18 months ago and now it seems to prefer being over here -
slightly embarassing actually- but it can be a nice diversion from the
grind in front of a screen

 

Funny: for a couple years now, I've had little birds (2 races, dunno the
name in English) that come close and watch (2-3 meters) when I sip my beer
or coffee, or work in my backyard / garden.

 

Robins perhaps? Red breast feathers?

When gardening they always hang about waiting to fly down and pick up
the grubbs etc that you dig up.


Jonathan

 

No brainer, Inventor and SW are very close to the same.