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That certainly looks impressive in a demo, but whether or not it works for all cases is open to question. Next time I try SolidEdge I’ll give it a go.

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Just to annoy everyone, I'm going to like this comment. There is a lot of functionality in the platform if you need to collaborate with others. Amazingly enough, we can collaborate in realtime, with 10 others, apply mark ups and save notes…..using Teams. Hell we can even share the file via a Dropbo...

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Sorry one more thing. The big usp with all the new cloud apps is collaboration. They dream up these crazy scenarios of teams in SMEs dotted all around the globe. I have never seen anything like this. Our in house team is remote. During Covid I kept the office going but had to set up infrastructure t...

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Interesting seeing all this, as Onshape appear to be gunning for the SolidWorks users again (ref Joe Dunn’s posts on LinkedIn basically stirring it). Here’s the thing though. All this file translation at feature level means nothing. I speak as a person and business owner who has swapped CAD systems ...

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KQuigley When you say validate the surface, are they going down the route of looking at surface continuity, zebra stripes, curvature continuity? or is this analysis of CAD to mesh data? Validating the surface for tooling - so looking at continuity, flow, divergence etc. 100% agree there. Zebra and ...

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It's an interesting one this. The team doing these products now are very capable. They know Creo and use Creo to model and validate the geometry. It is the validation part that concerns them most. The way you build these products is pretty much the same in Creo as it is in Solidworks. Yes creo (with...

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Thanks Paul!
Mark Landsatt! That was who used to post about it. Thanks.

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It's been a while since I've been on here! I have a question for some of the old timer SolidWorks users here (and I include myself in that!). An old customer of mine (no names sorry) is part of a large global enterprise (made up of lots of smaller companies). The entire organisation was Creo based b...

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Can someone pull this posting into its own thread? There is a lot to discuss about this tool! Reminds me of the old days of using UG (pre-NX for those under 25 years old) with curves...yes curves not sketches..and creating thru-curve meshes. It was called wireframe modelling back in the day. Ashlar...

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How are you preparing for that? Trying out other options. Trying to understand in much more granular detail why we would need to continue with SolidWorks. In truth, if Solidworks announced an end to maintenance and a move to 100% subscribers model at existing price structures we would just stop pay...

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Love how this forum autocorrected d*** …. As in Richard Sowar.

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Phi is based on, or probably more accurately, exactly the same as FreeDimension. FreeDimension was developed from the late 1990s, and I had an early version of it around 2004/5 I think when it was owned by d*** Sowar (or at least thats who I liaised with at the time). It was a really good system as ...

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They were all modelled with SolidWorks. But, after being burned by 3DX, we are evaluating Onshape. Surfacing, while looking simple, is surprisingly powerful. We'll try to model a hull soon. Take a look at the Phi add on for Onshape. https://youtu.be/iHumZKeoHPA I think for your products it would be...

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Also one more thing. If you want a really useful surfacing tool get the XNurbs add on for Solidworks and/or Rhino. Very handy and won’t break the bank.

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It’s not just a Solidworks issue. All the main platforms have issues with this. There are specialist pieces of software that do this but it is NOT a push button activity. Power Surfacing has been mentioned and we use that for sub d work inside SolidWorks. The original versions included the reverse e...

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Thoughts on 3DXW 2023…. I have none. I’ve never attended a “World” in person, seeing as they are always in the USA and I could never justify the time or cost just to attend a convention like that. Though Solidworks did call me one year and asked “what did I think of World? I said I’d never been, the...

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Maybe this is sounding like a broken record, but Solid Edge reads SW native and can reconnect translated drawings to translated models. How well does it actually do this though? Can it handle a 20 sheet Solidworks drawing, referencing assemblies and parts, with many configurations? The issue with d...

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I get that jcapriotti As I said the last line of my post, we do help the add on guys, the start ups and the open source folks. But I’m not going to spend an hour writing up a bug, logging it into a billion dollar vendor’s archaic Jira system and then interact with their first line technical folks to...

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Here’s the thing. We don’t report bugs. I don’t see it as my job or my team’s job to waste their time filling out bug reports if a format that suits the software vendor. This applies to all mainstream software not just Solidworks. 99% of the time we work around the issue by asking each other/googlin...

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You just don't know the software very well. In the extrude propertymanager is a "from" setting. You don't need an extra plane, just use the "from" setting. For large tree management, use folders. You're not going to learn new software if you keep using the old software as a crut...

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Well this is quite a funny thread and reminds me of a guy who used to work for me who was a supposed expert in NX and spent the first month complaining that Solidworks wasn’t the same or as good….I’ll let you fill in the blanks to how that went…

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Just to be clear, the prices I quoted were per year pricing. This is the issue for existing customers like us. we would move from paying around £1200 a year per license to stay on maintenance to paying about 3x that amount every year per seat to move to this new platform. Then ON TOP of that we have...

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I posted this on the main SW fourm recently (and amazingly it has not been removed yet!). Wondered what folks here thought or have any experience in using the new platform. Especially with regards to data storage costs. https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:yUw32GbYTEqKdg...

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Had to try this. Some pointers I've found using SW 2021 and SW 2022 (latest SPs on both). You seem to have to open the SW file from E Drawings, THEN save out the HTML file. If you Export an E drawing file FROM Solidworks, then open that E drawing file in E drawings, the HTML export always delivers a...

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 4:21 am This is a new option added in 2019!!

I totally missed that! Thanks Deepak!

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It could be used as the design position tool. If you work auto or aero you may have a predetermined global csys and you design in the context of that csys. This allows parent/owner company to drop all components into their assy using 0,0,0. No mating conditions. This does require you to build your ...

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And so it begins…. If I am reading the press releases correctly 3DX/Cloud “rental” packages reduce in cost slightly whilst desktop “permanent” licenses of Solidworks increase substantially. Funny how they wait until 3DX World is over before announcing that… ….prepares for the onslaught of calls from...

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Interesting thread, but not that accurate. Firstly, Bentley Microstation is an industry leader in certain sectors, especially very large scale infrastructure projects. Autodesk and Bentley did a deal many years ago to allow native file format exchange. So Microstation opens dwgs and AutoCAD opens dg...

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Roopinder posted something on engineering.com where he quoted me. Interesting read. https://www.engineering.com/story/dassault-systemes-replaces-ceo-of-solidworks-what-does-this-mean-for-the-future-of-solidworks Interesting but inaccurate. GP was in charge of R&D at ImpactXoft, not Think3, whic...

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I was there. I asked several questions. They didn’t answer any, just like last year. The questions most important to us were: 1 What incentives are there for existing users to move to or add 3DX? No answer. 2 Each 3DX user gets 20GB of file storage with each license. The cloud platforms assume you k...

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Ahhh sorry Paul, I forgot to do that for you didn't I!!! I'll put it on our Trello board to make sure soemthign gets sorted!!

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I've just seen they offer a cloud license as well - might do that!

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This kind of follows on from a thread I did on the Solidworks forum a while back. XNurbs is a little single function add on for Solidworks and Rhino. I took a punt on a couple of licenses of it a couple of years ago. We don't have the Rhino version, just the Solidworks version. https://www.xnurbs.co...

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I’ll admit I’ve been involved with the Onshape folks since it was a tech demo. I worked with it through its pre beta period when functionality was really limited. It has come a very long way since then and these days when I get asked for recommendations I invariably suggest Onshape or Fusion. The be...

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Big topic. I’ve used it since it came out. I won’t repeat above but if you want a sub d feature tree editable feature, Power Surfacing is the only current option. I don’t even this 3D Sculptor enables this. But here’s the thing. It has some good features, but it has a lot of frustrations. Specifical...

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Honestly, what a load of nonsense. ZW3D described as the ultimate system? ZW3D aka Varimatrix aka VX. I used this for 3 years. Sure it had some elements that were useful, but as an all round tool it was/is buggy, under featured in basic areas and the kernel created issues moving data to other system...

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They had this in Creo 7. The changes in 8 relate to tweaks to this.

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I kind of avoided this one because I don’t want to seem like a grumpy git. I do think the CAD industry is in a bit of a crisis right now-from the customer’s viewpoint. The state of the global economy means investors are looking for places to dump cash, and CAD vendors are a prime target. Investors l...

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OK, straight up I’ll say we dropped our Creo subscription from April this year. This is not a reflection on the software, just the harsh reality of 2021 business overheads. For us Creo was always a nice extra tool to have for a couple of customers who used it, but the reality was they didn’t need us...

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AL123 Yes is the short answer. This is where a built in option helps, like in Creo (and to be fair in Creo it is very good). But let’s reverse up a bit and look at the reasons for doing this. Many of the sub-d examples the vendors use are just plain stupid. For me the benefit of sub d comes with ra...

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We are running a Stratasys uPrint SE. Looking at a SLA to go with it soon. Probably FormLabs, maybe a Photonics.

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Firstly thanks to Matt for setting this place up, looking forwards to some CAD agnostic discussions! I thought I’d start with sub d toolsets and how we have grown into these. Back in the day, we bought into Modo as a rendering tool to accompany Solidworks, with also the vague hope that we could do c...

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