Unigraphics NX2 - What up?

Has anyone heard anything good or bad about Unigraphics NX2? We had them
come out for a demo today. It was mighty impressive. It's only about
$12,000 per seat! Ouch! Aside from the cost, is there any major hiccups I
should be asking about?


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Todd Bennett
Celerity Group, Inc
tbennett<nospam>@celerity.net

 

http://www.cadalyst.com/cadalyst/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=79195

A glowing review, the major "con" being the drafting interface.

Sure costs a lot of money though.

Richard

 

"At one end of the CAD spectrum is code that seems like
it was written in someone's garage, then turned loose on
the masses, who in turn act as beta testers as long as they
can endure it..."

Too funny!

Thanks for posting that link Richard.

Mike

 

Oh geez...

I think this has been brought up before Mike. The author it turns out was
NOT talking about SolidWorks. A search reveals that this author is really a
fan, and has produced the same glowing reviews of SolidWorks. I posted the
link only in response to a question, I do not want to use anything else
besides SolidWorks (and I hope I never have to).

Richard

 

I think that CATIA v5 or Pro/e is better chocie for more or less the same
money

 

Between the 20 or so designer/engineers here, we use Pro/E, SolidWorks,
AutoCAD, and Inventor. Mostly we use SolidWorks, but it tends to die on
large assemblies. Inventor just can't do some things we need to do.

Pro/E gets used quite a bit here, but can't say I have ever been impressed
with anything that it does. However, it can handle large assemblies fine.
It is a closed system that wants to keep you in a box. Wildfire is the
closest thing to a user friendly enhancement they have had in the last 6
years (maybe longer). For $300 million, or whatever they spent, it still is
like using a chisel and hammer.

NX2 was extremely impressive. I just wanted to know of any problems people
have heard about. I don't care about comparisons. At this time, the only
problems I've heard about applied to both Pro/E and NX2. They were small at
that.

1) NX2 doesn't utilize VB or VBA yet, but is expected to support VB.NET at
its next release.
2) EDS is a big company. Will they listen to the small fish?

As far as these two issues stand, Pro/E is in the same boat.


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Todd Bennett
Celerity Group, Inc
tbennett<nospam>@celerity.net

 

Cliff, you're correct about the C++. I suspect you're right about the
second point as well. At any rate, I'm having a difficult time coming up
with any negative information about NX2 aside from the cost.

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Todd Bennett
Celerity Group, Inc
tbennett<nospam>@celerity.net