solidworks to topsolid !!!!!

Never heard of TopSolid.

In fact, I hope some comments about these 2 points :

Assy file and part file are the same.( not clear)

Thanx again.

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That's funny! I thought after I gave you the moniker you started it.

Muggs

Top Solid is much more popular in Europe than the U.S. Even there, it's used mostly for mold design, and that mostly because it has decent native CAM.

Some of the issues you mention (sketcher, no true assembly, etc.) are valid from what I've heard. It would probably be a very poor choice for a primary CAD system, unless you design tooling exclusively.

Mark

I have been a SolidWorks user since it first came out. I recently switched from Solidworks to Topsolids. If you are a Mold Designer TopSolid is far superior to Solidworks. It is the most friction free design envrionment I have ever worked with. I would say it is like the Cadkey of Solid modelers. It is kind of old school in its concepts, but what you will relize after using it a while is that all the pretty Windows Object Oriented concepts in Solidworks are not really making you more productive.

If I was designing a Mold, I would choose Topsolid Hands Down. If I was designing Products I would choose Solidworks Hands Down.