Soldworks update

I presume you can still use the "macro" recorder functions?
Then you have GRIP & UGOPEN/UFUNC ......, right?

 

8 months on UG now.

Clunky interface and the fact that you can't edit some features
completely, the same options to create them aren't there.

 

There may be a reason ....

 

We're on NX2 and we skip a release so it will be NX4 before we upgrade.


I see the same here, even experienced users can have some difficulties.
Like where a line is hidden on a drawing, is it:

On a Layer turned off
Blanked
Visible in Model View
Visible in Drawing View
View Dependent Edit Hidden

Also it seems that some features should be just one like Ruled ,
Through Curves, Through Curve Mesh, and Swept. All these are pretty
much a Loft, some with different controls.

 

And what are you saying?

 

A) Don't you have any standards?
B) Any tools to check?
C) How do you know that you even have it?
D) How did you lose it?

Those are all quite different (some in terms of construction
method only).
I doubt that ruled would be considered lofted in any case. It's
always developable. Others may at times be developble or
not, depending.

 

It might be something another user hid, finding where he hid it, that's
the chore.

Ruled, not to be confused with Ruled surface in SWX as they are
completely different, essentially seems to me to be a two section loft
with no guides.

 

I had a set of GRIP routines that quickly checked many things.
They were simple.

Reverse blank all, show what's on each layer (that has anything)
& let you select status (resetable), etc. IIRC Some of that's probably
standard anyway ...

How so?
Don't confuse surface rulings with ruled surfaces.

Don't 3D lofted surfaces have compound curvature?

 

From all the 50 replies or so that I've read, I am seeing a trend in
user responses that the software companies seem to be so blindly set on
creating "New Features" that they don't take the time to properly
refine and integrate existing and sometimes very old features.

No one VP of CAD Product Development ever stops and says, "Hey, we
ought to spend a quarter or two cleaning up the old interface and code
to get the niggling fixes, more dependible features and integration
really cleaned up, because it is causing our users lots of lost man
hours."

Seems like the late 1950s tail fin wars where they had to go larger, no
matter what, but it did nothing to make the care more reliable.

So when are users going to literally scream, "NO MORE FEATUREITIS until
you fix what you have already."?

Bo

 

"No one VP of CAD Product Development ever stops and says, "Hey, we
ought to spend a quarter or two cleaning up the old interface and code
to get the niggling fixes, more dependible features and integration
really cleaned up, because it is causing our users lots of lost man
hours." "

Wrong but probably very true when it comes to SolidWorks.

VX values stability and getting existing stuff fixed a lot more than
SolidWorks Corp. does. Every few weeks VX seems to have an update
posted for VX V10.


VX doesn't spend anywhere near as much time on getting their UI to be
as slick as Inventor, SolidWorks, etc. I've come to accept this about
VX and realize I would rather have the emphasis on the tools and live
with not having the slickest UI in VX. I can work thru the UI not being
slick. I can't live with tools that don't work, are hard / awkward to
use, are radically different to use, etc.

Don't confuse how SolidWorks Corp. develops Soliworks with how VX Corp.
develops VX.


jon

 

"No one VP of CAD Product Development ever stops and says, "Hey, we
ought to spend a quarter or two cleaning up the old interface and code
to get the niggling fixes, more dependible features and integration
really cleaned up, because it is causing our users lots of lost man
hours." "

Wrong but probably very true when it comes to SolidWorks.

VX values stability and getting existing stuff fixed a lot more than
SolidWorks Corp. does. Every few weeks VX seems to have an update
posted for VX V10.


VX doesn't spend anywhere near as much time on getting their UI to be
as slick as Inventor, SolidWorks, etc. I've come to accept this about
VX and realize I would rather have the emphasis on the tools and live
with not having the slickest UI in VX. I can work thru the UI not being
slick. I can't live with tools that don't work, are hard / awkward to
use, are radically different to use, etc.

Don't confuse how SolidWorks Corp. develops Solidworks with how VX
Corp. develops VX.


jon

 

"No one VP of CAD Product Development ever stops and says, "Hey, we
ought to spend a quarter or two cleaning up the old interface and code
to get the niggling fixes, more dependible features and integration
really cleaned up, because it is causing our users lots of lost man
hours." "

Wrong but probably very true when it comes to SolidWorks.

VX values stability and getting existing stuff fixed a lot more than
SolidWorks Corp. does. Every few weeks VX seems to have an update
posted for VX V10.


VX doesn't spend anywhere near as much time on getting their UI to be
as slick as Inventor, SolidWorks, etc. I've come to accept this about
VX and realize I would rather have the emphasis on the tools and live
with not having the slickest UI in VX. I can work thru the UI not being
slick. I can't live with tools that don't work, are hard / awkward to
use, are radically different to use, etc.

Don't confuse how SolidWorks Corp. develops Solidworks with how VX
Corp. develops VX.


jon

 

Jon, the question was not about a particular CAD program,if you noticed
my writing.

"So when are users going to literally scream, "NO MORE FEATUREITIS
until
you fix what you have already."? "

Again - Bo

 

Sounds like they have lots of bugs then.
Found by their *actual users*.

 

How very odd.
There was some clown posting about how the user interface
and "Windows Native" was about all that mattered.

Have you ever met ?

 

IOW Ones that actual real users use to do productive
(but often complex) things after training & use of the manuals,
already knowing their field well.

Tell us about a circle tangent to two lines again.

 

Clearly it has a stability problem then.
No clues again, right?

 

SolidWorks has thousands of real customers to worry about.
With real ideas.
Also a large installed base with tetrabytes of part files .... all
of which must work with each new release.

Flimflam banquer. Yep.

 

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As you have now posted the same thing at least three times we
can assume that you are still confused.

Getting too busy refilling copy machines?

 

Yes I noticed but I wanted to make the direct comparison anyway because
there really is a big difference in how VX is developed compared to
SolidWorks.

VX isn't great at marketing like SolidWorks is but they are very good
at software development.

How many CAD/CAM companies can you name that have built three of their
own hybrid kernels from the ground up ? How many CAD/CAM companies have
more experience at building hybrid modelers then VX does ?

VX is a very unique company and this is very clear when one uses /
models in VX.

jon