What competition?

http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_776148.html

 

Hope you found that during smoko John, or is work slow?

 

Just gettin' Google to send me daily news on SolidWorks.

This particular news is something of a worry. If Catia has "matured" and
there is more competition in the mid range i.e. SolidWorks. Then how can
SolidWorks afford to make upgrades to the software?

A company I'm currently contracting to is thinking about dropping their
subscription / maintenance after the final SP for 2005. Where will the
madness end? I personally want continued improvement, (not at the cost
of stability)

John Layne

 

... I personally want continued improvement, (not at the cost of
stability)

We want web noodles, we want web noodles, ..... 8~)

 

stability)

The only way you will get real continued improvement is if SolidWorks
competitors get stronger and start taking SolidWorks sales away /
removing SolidWorks seats.

UGS has finally decided where the market really is. The market will be
less UG sales and many more seats of SolidEdge sold. I feel UGS is
*finally* doing their part. Look at what UGS has focused on in the last
few releases for SolidEdge... vastly improved surfacing tools, large
scale assembly handling, better 2D to 3D, better tools for dealing with
imported geometry. However, IMO the SolidEdge UI still blows and UGS
still has not done what I and many others believe is a must... allow
wireframe geometry to be created and edited (native and non-native) in
model and assembly.

PTC is doing what needs to be done to make Pro/E Wildfire more user
friendly and to make Pro/Wildfire readily available for those who wish
to learn it without going through the student purchase bullshit. I
posted a link to what PTC is offering a few days ago. SolidWorks,
SolidEdge AND VX should all be following PTC's lead.

Why not try VX and see the technology SolidWorks is so badly missing ?
If you like VX, add it to your tool box and start talking about why you
had to go the VX route here.

Being a SolidWorks product loyalist, and all the bitching in the world
about how crappy SolidWorks is, in certain areas, has proven not to
work.

Why not do something that does work.... start using another tool and
get others to do the same !!!

I think that tool should be VX. You may feel that tool should be Pro/E
Wildfire or SolidEdge or ? I'd say Autodesk Inventor but I don't have
much respect for Autodesk, it's newsgroups and how they censor them, or
many of their loyalist users.

I did like Domenic Gallello but he's long gone. Brenda Disher was also
first rate. Buzz Kross... forget it.

jon

 

Still totally clueless <sigh>

<snip idiotic ranting>

 

<snicker>

Still banned, eh?
How many places does that make? More than a dozen?

 

My clients use SolidWorks therefore I use SolidWorks. Or I sit in the
street and with a sign around my neck saying "Will work for food"

Even then, having said that, for the most part I'm very happy with
SolidWorks --- or will be after SP4????

Wouldn't mind having a look at Pro E, since I could probably get some
work with that knowledge! Not sure the same would apply to VX as I'm not
sure it even has a reseller in New Zealand.

 

Forgot to ask does VX have its own newsgroup, or do all it's users hang
out here?

 

This particular news is something of a worry. If Catia has "matured" and

By the thousands of companies that faithfully pay their
subscription/maintenance services to SW???

 

VX has it's own Web Forum but it's closed. I'm trying very hard to
change this. :>)

I like open forums.

jon

 

No need to feel alone in this regard. I'm not sure if VX has a reseller
in Arizona or in Southern California. :>)

It would not be a good move to buy VX and expect to get work from
others using VX. One would most likely starve to death.

You buy VX when you want powerful hybrid modeling tools that work far
better than Solidworks's tools and you don't care about buying what the
vast majority have... you just want great tools at a great price and
you want to have fun modeling again / for the first time.

VX is so much fun to use cause it works so well. :>)

jon

 

Want in, eh?

Buy & actually use their software.
But you'd probably get chucked right out anyway. Just
like always.

 

Get a slinky or Etch-A-Sketch or MagnaDoodle or Silly Putty
or something.

 

www.vx.com

Download VX and try it and see how much more powerful and enjoyable VX
is to use than SolidWorks is. If you have a question, post it here or
at www.cadchat.com in the VX Forum.

IMO, VX is a much better idea :>)

jon

 

VX doesn't really need a newsgroup because whenever you don't know how
to do something, you just call your VX application engineer and he
tells you how to do it.

Since VX is a small company, VX application engineers are your direct
resource, there is no reseller in the middle to get in the way of
direct communication.

 

If VX doesn't need a newsgroup, why are you posting in here?

 

Poor mans Powershape

 

....but I-DEAS NX11 is a hybrid modeller - have you used it?

 

Because I use SolidWorks too.