Cosmosxpress in SW2003 VS SW2004 Something Fishy

Have you noticed they have made Cosmosxpress weaker in SW2004 than SW2003.
In SW2003 you can create your own material and define it. SW2004 will not
let you do that. What gives SW you should let us know when you weaken a tool
just like when you tell us about making one better!

 

i think this is now done in sw part

 

And only in metric.

 

Rocko,

I don't know that they weakened it, they just made it a whole lot more
complicated. Aparently, SW now uses the material assigned using the little
widget under the annotations in the tree. You can't change the SW library,
but you can create a custom one and use it.

Also, as Paul said, all of the standard materials are in metric. Setting the
document to inches doesn't seem to affect it. Why the F#%K would they want
to make these metric, and unchangable ?? Isn't this an American program ? I
work in the medical field and deal with metric allot, but I think and work
in inches/pounds. Why the hell isn't it as easy to use either in Cosmos-E,
as it is in SW. Major screwup IMO. Get a clue SW

Regards

Mark

 

the mothership of SW is european. and all in intern are coded in metrics.
others units are just a conversion. and less calculations is less bugs.
why americans don't want to use metrics ? they already loose a mars explorer
satelite cos they 're screwed up metrics and inches.
joking

+++

 

SW is from the start an american company. I have worked with a few,
including UL, that are using metrics.

The latter the switch to metric, the more painfull it will be. Our Brittons
neighbours understood this more than 20 years ago.

My .01 mm

JMB

 

what is a pound?

I know an inch is the length of King John's thumb joint and a gallon
is the amount that King Etyhelred could urinate in the morning after
a night drinking with his band of housecarls.

The only good thing that Napoleon gave us was the mm which is of
course a measurement of his private parts!!


Joking aside - try the metric system - you might find you like it.


in happy diversity - Regards




Jonathan Stedman

 

For those having to convert units, check out this freebee units Engineer's
conversion calculator at the site below. It's the best I've seen yet. I will
be upgrading from SW2001Plus to SW2004 in about a week. Looking forward to
using the CosmosExpress to see reactions to applied loads and stress values
on plastic extrusion shapes.
http://www.katmarsoftware.com/freeware.html
Regards,
Terry

 

Terry,

CosmosExpress is fun but make sure you understand its limitations. I mention
this because you said you are using plastics. The program is not accurate
when you get into the nonlinear range which you may well do with plastics.

JJ

 

I have significant doubts that the U.S. will ever really convert.
Although a few industries have, I wonder if we have already reached
saturation.

That said, I really lament that SW was internally metric, instead of
unitless. When I try to import a 1"x1"x1" cube in an IGES file into
SW, it doesn't successfully import. Apparently the 1" dimensions were
getting rounded at some point so that the sides were not parallel to
each other.

Inventor really frustrated me with its poor handling of Feet-Inch.
It felt like watching a foreign film that has been dubbed into
English. I now learn that SW has some similar problems... defining
materials library must be done in metric, regardless of your settings
for english units. But, if you set a custom density for a part, that
is done in english units.

As an aside, I think English units really are better anyway! The
metric system seemed to be more politically modivated than adopted for
pratical reasons.

Joe Dunfee