ideas ?

Any body can give me information about 3D Design software called
IDEAS ?
I want to know the capability of ideas compare to solidworks.

thank`s
regards,
Yen

 

In my humble opinion, I-DEAS is a LOT less intuitive to use than
Solidworks. If you are new to 3D CAD, I think you will find the
learning curve in I-DEAS very steep compared to SW.

Of more importance is that SDRC (the company behind I-DEAS) was bought
by Unigraphics 2-3 years ago. Most of the functionality in I-DEAS is
being ported through to UG NX, so I would think that I-DEAS will
slowly disappear as more and more people migrate to UG, although UG
have said that they will support anyone who wants to stay on I-DEAS.

Martin

 

Very capable in capable hands. Expensive. Resource hog. Used to run on
Unix. It is becoming obsolete as it was bought up by UG. Steep
learning curve. I never got the hang of it. And I tried.

TOP

 

I bought IDEAS Artisan in the late 90s, but found it difficult to
fathom. Processors were not exactly fast for it then.

SolidWorks, for me a couple years later, was logical, easy for me to
understand, and productive.

Bo

 

I remind all that Ford used it (and may still) for design work.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/sdrc.html

 

C3P as I recall - we had it when I worked at a suspension parts
manufacturer around 98-99. Looks like they may be using CATIA now
though, linked with ICEM for the really lairy surfacing jobs...

http://www.mcsolutions.co.uk/articl...ering-with-surface-modelling-initiative-.aspx

Martin

 

Perhaps too many bells & whistles & things like 3D threads .. ?
Part database size matters as does entity count and types
of entity in that count.