How much is solidworks?

In the nitch of 3D mechanical design there is no equal when it comes to

I certainly believe that.

There are plenty of opportunities if you know Pro-E... you just have
to know where to look and how to market yourself. These opportunities
are usually with larger more established companies that have better
benefits and pay more.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/

 

To do a accurate search for Pro/Engineer you have to do add all of the
acronyms... such as,..

proe, pro-e, pro/e, proengineer, pro-engineer, pro/engineer

...which add to >,... 3281 hits.

I'll give it a error of 50% for the sake of the sw ng ego's.

.. ;^)

   

 

Chris,...

Do yourself a big favor and add each of those individually to see what
happens?
Ok,.. what do you see........ ah,.. that be a... major assumption
fubar,... yeah!?

And,... YEP,.. Pro/e has those very COMMON acronyms.

I'm sure there are some cross references.. and, that's why I gave a
conservative 50% error.

Yes,... it's amazing... every city and range has a different value...
wow,... imagine that?!


.. ;^)

 

This is what I came up with....

X*3-(assumptions)+(common_sense)/(out_of_my_a$$)*3.14/(guestimate/
coin_toss)+fudge-factor = WFT!?*50%

Where X = Monster search value

.. TGIF! 8^)

 

I don't think I'd want to be the one telling all the engineers
using it that.

Such as what so many use AutoCAD for?

BTW, Anybody that is of the mindset that 3D CAD or CAD/CAM is
for the production of *drawings* & their occupation as "drawing"
is still living in the old 2D drafting board world and thinks of their
product as bits of paper with lines on it too.
This really is not much better than before (just takes less actual
skill at probaby lower wages as well as less ($$) floorspace ($$)).

You said "In the nitch of 3D mechanical design there is no equal when it comes
to job opportunities."

Which might be true IF you were saying that there are more Pro-E OR more
AutoCAD jobs than SW jobs. Looks like about 3 to 1 for Pro-E to SW and more
than that for AutoCAD to SW to me.

You need to check it under all names that
are use, ignore the duplicate answers & then add
the resuts to get a total, as I did.

Pro-E + Pro/E + Pro_E + ProE + Pro/Engineer(hard to search for; too many
possible names) = ~ 4,211 hits (I think)

I had "SolidWorks = 1,435 hits" so there are now
~ 10 more jobs listed.

Perhaps they hire people faster too. More trade
schools teach it IIRC so more applicatns = faster job fills.

Only indicates video junkies (and ads), not job openings or
usage.

None of which looks at wages <G>.

 

This is nodoubt because of your well-known problems with simple
shop math.

CLUE #1: AutoCad = >5,000 hits >> SolidWorks = 1,435 hits
CLUE #2: Pro-E = ~ 4,211 hits >> SolidWorks = 1,435 hits
CLUE #3: ">>" means "is much greater than".
CLUE #4: The greater the number the larger it is. Example:
2 is greater than 1. Try counting a few fingers to see this effect.
Count them many times til you keep getting the same answer.
CLUE #5: Smaller numbers are not larger than larger ones.

Anybody have any new Little Moron jokes?

 

That's a *different* question/issue.
IIRC Most vendors each year tell the number of seats sold
that year and some of the trades compare them fairly often.

But some may count an upgrade to more capabilities too.

 

What lies do you tell?

 

In the nitch of 3D mechanical design there is no equal when it comes to

I certainly believe that.

There are plenty of opportunities if you know Pro-E... you just have
to know where to look and how to market yourself. These opportunities
are usually with larger more established companies that have better
benefits and pay more.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/