Solidworks vs AutoDesks Inventor pro 2008 version... It looks likeSW is a lot more intuitive and e

So just follow the headers back to the original !
Pretty simple.

You've heard of Usenet & posts, right?

BTW, How did you make out with Professor Parker?

 

What would I do without my jb fix?
I used to have several others in training as spares but ....
LOL

 

I think this one is broken now too Cliff.
You are a little off the beam yourself these days. You completely missed my
Freudian "intellectual poverty" remark.

 

But I have a life?

Of course, but all I hear from you is Stalking, Spamming, Snipping, and
Pasting?

Can you or anybody else disagree with that?

WTf?
Whatever the frig that means?

 

I dont think he advocated that... saying merely that solid edge can
edit it without having to know the history or edit the base sketches.

have you seen the solid edge demonstrations of that?


Phil Scott

 

In my case i design build skid equipment. steel frame, pumps, pipe and
valves mounted.. maybe 100 parts max. ... simple is a lot more useful
for me than having to cope with the ultra sophisticated capabilities
you are discussing.


Phil Scott

 

I ve found inventor anything but easy to learn myself...archane beyond
all conception...and from looking at the SW site examples it should
be easier than Inventor... and solid works a lot easier than either
one.

In looking at the Solid edge examples I see a vastly simpler system
than either iinventor or SW, no history required or insight on how the
part was drawn needed to edit it...

It looks vastly better than both SW and inventor by a huge margin...
but I dont know of course.. it is from a major company in germany
Seimens and its going to sell for 5k or so, and it can interlink to
spread sheets and do arrays etc (the really cheap CAD wont do arrays
as you know).. see their demo's... edits parts live without having to
dig up the sketches in order and edit each one of those... much
faster.



will it actually work that way in practice? I dont know... but its
a credible company and what they are demonstrating shows serious
advance.


id be interested in what you have to say after looking at their demo's


Phil Scott

 

thanks...i found the comments re the pain in the ass aspects
valuable... I am a custom equipment builder and do 3D cad to show off
and sell custom equipment... I dont like spending much time on that..
My CAD work runs less than 5 hours a week.... so I dont need
complexity that can do a lot of things Im not interested in.. and
what I do needs to be fast as hell.

Thanks for the advice re getting a trial period prior to final
purchase... no doubt solid edge can be talked into that.... maybe
you should look at their demo's... it sure looks like the next level
advance to me... about a fifth of the commands required... it is AI
to some extent.....history and sequence of original construction not
relevant...you can make a late stage change without having to go back
to the original sketches. or know how the model was built..... thats
the claim anyway, the demo's of course support it... and its
supposedin in use at Seimens for a while now.

time will tell. it has me more than slightly interested.


Phil Scott

 

They wore out or went bust a bit early.

Still no sign of baywords.com again ...

BTW, Speaking of "Hybrid" ...
http://www.computerworld.com/html/surveys/salarysurvey_2008.html
[
IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer has smashed the high-tech equivalent of the
four-minute mile by breaking the lofty petaflop barrier.

IBM executives announced today that the company's latest supercomputer - a
hybrid system running AMD Opteron processors and Cell chips - sustained a speed
of 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. That's about twice as fast as the
next fastest supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L, which is based at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory.

The new machine would need a single week to run a calculation that the fastest
supercomputer 10 years ago would have needed 20 years to complete.
......
Roadrunner uses 3.9 megawatts of power, which Grice noted is enough to power
39,000 100-watt light bulbs. It has 6,948 dual-core Opterons on IBM LS21 Blades,
as well as 12,960 Cell processors on IBM QS22 blades. The machine, which has 80
terabytes of memory, has 296 IBM BladeCenter H racks. It takes up 6,000 square
feet, uses 57 miles of fiber optic cable and weighs in at 500,000 pounds.
......
This new version of Roadrunner also runs Linux and gets its hefty power boost by
adding the Cell chips, originally designed jointly by IBM, Toshiba and Sony for
the latter's PlayStation 3 game console, to the Opteron base. The hybrid
supercomputer will use the Cell chips for massive calculations.
]

Often tired, sorry.

That I did.

 

You had time to complain.

Short stuff, eh?
I commented on (and quoted) what was relevent to what I wanted
to comment on.

Do you have a better cure for the Work Coordinate System
than jb's?

We USED to just define the ones we wanted to use & go from
there, simple point,vector,vector stuff.
I guess this more modern stuff where you always have to keep
moving the geometry about (and programming in the machine's
coordinate system) is too modern for me.

Though I do suppose that creating all lines on the X axis (once
you've movedall the other geometry about) is kind of simple, right?
Why did we not think of this earlier??

Perhaps some thought.

You were posting winger lies & propaganda (simple
[but clueless & wrong] science stuff you did not quite
seem to grasp even though you had copied it) about
global warming not existing ..... LOL ...
Dr. Parker, for one, replied to you.

 

Which are then no longer associated to/with the original SW
files.
He could just as easily import dumb wireframe or something
into MasterCAM, could he not?
Well, perhaps not as that what he tried (or claimed, anyway)
with an IGES file from Pro-E & then could not find the circles &

I'm not a canned demo & ad junkie, sorry.

 

"the site is temporarily down - we're working on it as we speak. We've
had a outage in two servers on separate locations, sorry."

Since the Jon Banquer blog is so popular when it comes back up I will
mirror it on 2 separate hosts.

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

 

If this is for learning purposes and you have some Inventor training the
student version of Solid Works or Inventor is under $150 each.

Bob

 

The new Jon Banquer blog can be found here:

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Check out the pages on why all present books that try to teach CAM
suck and the page on suggestions for CAM book and CAM video authors.

The Jon Banquer blog is the leader when it comes to cutting through
the bullshit that fills the CADCAM world.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA

 

Demand a 16 hour video of those charts so that every time you need to
countersink a hole you can watch the video again to get the correct
number from the chart.

 

Such as knowing about some simple shop math (entry level trig)?

 

The new Jon Banquer blog can be found here:

http://jonbanquer.wordpress.com/

Check out the pages on why all present books that try to teach CAM
suck and the page on suggestions for CAM book and CAM video authors.

The Jon Banquer blog is the leader when it comes to cutting through
the bullshit that fills the CADCAM world.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA

 

I like the broken English too. It adds just
the right banquer touch. Fine planning & execution.

 

The new Jon Banquer blog can be found here:

http://jonbanquer.wordpress.com/

Check out the pages on why all present books that try to teach CAM
suck and the page on suggestions for CAM book and CAM video authors.

The Jon Banquer blog is the leader when it comes to cutting through
the bullshit that fills the CADCAM world.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA