SolidWorks or VX?

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/IMAGES/EX-SCREW.jpg

How long should it take

http://www.mcadforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4391

or is it out of SolidWorks depth?

Should I look at VX instead?

 

3.....2.....1.....

 

This newsgroup could use some fresh input so why not try it in VX.

More objective posts from SaladWorks / Preventor users might actually
tempt me to post more on what's wrong with VX / VX CAM rather then just
what's right with VX. (There is a lot right with VX !)

Lately SMA took a big step. Are you next ?

jon

"I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them." ... Jimmy
Hoffa

 

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM !

Insane CADCAM Jihad !

jon

"I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them." ... Jimmy
Hoffa

 

There's a lot right with Etch-A-Sketch and Magna-Doodle.
Stick to what you actually know.

 

JB's personal / favorite "demo"

http://www.geocities.com/banquercadcam/beavercad.zip

 

|:-( Big disappointment. Maybe in a few more years.

 

So I've heard.

 

I agree with you that SolidWorks has been a big disappointment. I can't
wait until SW starts using the Catia kernel in a few years! But until
then, you might want to check out www.impactxoft.com that uses the
Catia kernel and is partially owned by Catia.
Best of Luck!

 

How soon before most of the 2D to 3D market growth is gone so that we
can move on to badly needed real world functionality... the kind or
real world functionality that Preventor and SaladWorks so badly lack.

SaladWorks Corp. is so desperate they have made KeyCreator / Kubotek a
solution partner as the answer to dealing with non-native Geometry
cause SaladWorks sucks so bad in this area.

SaladWorks.... Toss It !

I hear VX 12 is due out in a few weeks. Can't wait to see what's new.

www.vx.com

jon

"I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them." ... Jimmy
Hoffa

 

Worry about the 4D.
HTH

 

Prior versions full of bugs & problems?

LOL ...

 

It even works but where's the latest release?
Or just no bugs? Works fine "as is"?

 

Thankie. Any of the kernels in popular use today, properly implemented, are
capable enough. What's missing is application specific goemetry creation
functions. Otherwise, if we are safe in the assumption that it's out of
Solidworks league, we'd have to assume the same of UG and we all know that's not
so.

Are you saying ImpactXoft has them?

 

"Any of the kernels in popular use today, properly implemented, are
capable enough."

I don't believe what you wrote above is true. There is a reason why VX
has spent so much money on their own kernel. Samsung alone has probably
invested a million dollars in VX and it shows when you model with VX
compared to SaladWorks.

jon

"I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them." ... Jimmy
Hoffa

 

It's not for nothing that you are known to be clueless.
You praise UG (which you've never used) and gripe about SW
(which you don't use) but both use the ParaSolid kernel.

Too cheap to get a good one or a lack of docs in Korean on
using same?

One firm you hate spent over US$ 7,000,000 just in development
costs in the last year for their existing *working* product IIRC.
Others may well have spent far more.

OTOH You are indeed clueless.

<snicker>

 

I don't believe what you wrote above is true.

If it is all about the kernel how do you explain UG? Same kernel as Solidworks.

A million is peanuts. How long will you keep a team of highly specialized PhD
mathemeticians and programmers around for that?

As yet no one has demonstrated any superiorities.

That's a pretty simple part. Non-organic, no higher order functions or geometry
involved. Should take between four and eight hours to model once the goemetry
is understood. That's not asking a lot of someone that wants to make a sale, is
it? There should be one in every developers gallery. If you run across one let
me know. <G>

 

Which CAD vendors have you met with or called so far? I am sure any one
of them will model that simple four to eight hour geometry for you for
free to make the sale !

 

Now I'm really dissappointed. Please. Tell me you aren't just another one
who's sole experience with 3D applications is the equivalent of building Leggo
assemblies that hangs out in user groups looking for marks. Scratch ImpactXoft
that uses Catia's kernel. Ching-Ching-No-Sale. I'll stop around again in a
couple of years to check on progress. <G>

 

I hear Lego engineers make some pretty good $$$ lol. Lego uses UGS NX.

Have you tried calling the companies that make/design the screws and
ask them what CAD software they use?

BTW, I use SolidWorks, but have looked at ImpactXoft (15% owned by
Dassault) as a less expensive way to work natively with automotive OEMs
that use Catia.