Anyone familiar with Unigraphics in here? Is it similar to Solidworks?
I've used both. Comparing Solidworks to UG is like comparing a Chevy sedan to a Ferrari. They'll both get you there, but one's a lot faster.... and harder to drive. In other words, you get what you pay for. UG is less bug prone (but by no means perfect), and has a much larger tool set. But it will take a lot longer to learn to use well, maintenance is higher, etc.
"Unigraphics" from UGS is a highend system its real name is now "NX" UGS also got the "SolidEdge" product witch is more comparabel to SW High-end CAD is NX, Catia and Pro/E Mainstream CAD is Solidworks, Inventor and SolidEdge. Close related to SW via the Parasolid kernel is IronCAD and T-flex. Regards Peter www.ugs.com http://www.ugs.com/products/nx/ http://www.ugs.com/products/velocity/solidedge/solidEdge.shtml http://www.solidworks.com http://www.ironcad.com http://www.t-flex.com
No I dont. We have both starting with SW in 98. Recently added UG NX4 and absolutly hate NX. Takes 3-4x longer to do things and if people thought drafting in SW was bad, IMHO NX is horrible. It would probably be faster to export the models and detail it in Autocad. SW does things out of the box with drawings that you have be GOD to get NX to do. We use a block for adding material, qty & detail number to each detail and SW does it automatically, with NX you have to do it manually.
See UG "macros" (I assume they still exist), GRIP, "user exits", etc. Just for starters. Probably much easier ways by far too ...
Can they get the same simple functionality? Back in the days of Rev ~8 IIRC they announced it was going away <G>. Well, User Function is all C++ these days but Fortran wrappers might be used. Or they could use C or C++ ... Perhaps they need a library part ... ?
