SolidEdge and SolidWorks

Soooo.... was that a question or a statement?

I think many here would be interested in your comparison.

For something entertaining to read I would like to hear it. What version will your be learning/teaching and I am assuming you will be comparing it to SW 2005

I will wish you a lot of luck :-) I have worked with SE from V7 toV15 and it took me a lot of time to get "used" to SolidWorks. What will you teach ? Only classic or also Xpress-route and virtual studio ?

Bert

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I would love to hear what you come up with. As soon as we get some breathing space we will be trying out SE ourselves. As Sporkman says, rumor has it that SE has better surfacing and the demo we saw looked promising. I would be especially interested in your take on that area.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

Oops, wrong Mark! Sorry about that.

Jerry Steiger

An Amigo anyways.

Looks like a go.

SE v14 vs SW 2004. I have to relearn SW2005, but I may throw in a few comments about 2005 as I go along.

First comment.

SE uses something called a ribbon bar instead of the property manager. It is more concise than the property manager to the point of being cryptic. And in general SE toolbar buttons have very little contrast so it is hard to tell when they are pressed and when they aren't.

Comments as you go are ok, because there may be suggestions or questions from others based on your current observation. But hopefully you are collecting all of them in one document for the end presentation. This will be interesting.

WT

Yeah, where's PellaKen? 8~)

Why do you use V14 ? SE is on V16 now.(shipping) Its like learning SW 2003.Why not use V15?

With your comment you are right, took me à time to get used to the XP look.

Bert

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Mark,

I do not use SolidWorks for a long time, so I cannot tell wich one I prefer. Both have there strong points. I have worked with SolidEdge for about 3 years (worked for a VAR so I had to know the package) I am a Engineer now with a Firm that wanted to go to 3d and that has a BU that bought SW so we went for the same. I am working with SW for half a year now.

Solidworks (2004) is IMHO better in:

Designtables Photoworks (works great, SE has in V16 also a Lightworks solution but i cost additional) Toolbox (Like it a lot) Configurations programming (VBA) User community (SE has a closed community)

SE (V15):

We do not a lot off surfacing so I have not looked into that at SW. But in V14 SE improved it a lot with "blue surf"

They have both a solution for Animations but they a both a 3rd party solutions (Immersive design)

But I do not like to say which is "better" , I think they look a lot what the other does and have the same in there next version. That includes Inventor.

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Here!

fwiw, you do not have to use 3d sketches for creating weldments in sw. 2d sketches work quite well.

Here we go:

I think I'll add some SW2005 to the mix, but I don't have SE15 or SE14 available. Some may say it isn't fair, but this is working with what I have. It will certainly show the similarities and differences in software design philosopy and is not meant to be a marketeering tool.

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