Steve,
>
>Have you considered that "having zero experience with parametric
>modeling" might be a good thing at this point?
>
>It's technology that's very dated and no one till now has been able to
>come up with something that's better and complete enough for most >users.
>
>It's technology that has never been able to deal with imported non-
>native geometry very well.
>
>It's technology that isn't very good if you have to modify a complex
>model that someone else has created.
>
>Its regeneration times can suck the life out of a user.
>
>The complex file relations and dependencies that it creates often are
>an absolute nightmare.
>
>Who needs all this bullshit? They only people that need it are on an
>ego trip and think they are expert users. I've made a lot of money
>with knowledge I have of it. It certainly helped in getting the job I
>now have but I've never deluded myself into thinking there wasn't a
>better way or that it didn't have serious shortcomings.
Is Solid Edge not a parametric modeler?
I'll have a lot more to say when Solid Edge with S/T is released.
You seem to have so much to say right now even though you have never seen the program live let alone any seat time or an opportunity to evaluate it.
Tom