Need to evaluate again for a new employer. Anyone have recent experience and can point out some strengths / weaknesses of each as they pertain to machine design? I have about 4 years on SW, he has 1 seat of Inventor but has not had time to learn & is still running MDT. Thanks
I evaluated WF2, INV9 and SW2005. I spent one year to this project.
SW won 6-0. I used ProE in earlier life and I was sure it will be the best. After 1 week use of SW I was sure SW will be our program.
Why
- much easier to learn
- with ProE assembly you cannot drop components in assembly and mate them. You must mate them in that order you dropped in assembly. Restructuring is wasting of time.
- ProE had bugs with functions which has made in 1987 or something.
- with SW you can do quick buttons better and those save a lot of time
- PTC uses resources for Windows compatibility and user interface. They realized this in year 2000, five years too late.
- With SW I evaluated program and same time did my normal design work. I just started to design with SW.
- with ProE you must design in wireframe mode. Shading and edge lines are too bad.
- Inventor had one advantage: Rotate/pan -function. It is really good with large size assemblies.
SolidWorks just has founded what machine designers need. If you do very complex parts then I don't know. We do simple parts, mostly could be done with manual- and laser machines.
We do 1000-5000 part machines (without fasteners) and machines are never same. We must modify or redesign all machines.
Mallone
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