great thanks
so other than cost how do you feel about AD vs SW ? in particular learning curve, ease of use, etc.
i own a dead (expired) licensed for SW but never got around to really learning it and therefore using it
it looks like restoring the maintenance would about the same as getting ALibre
SW does seem to have a lot of sheet metal specific tools
ds
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Matt Pobursky wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:37:50 -0800, Dennis Saputelli wrote:
does it read and write solidworks files?
That was a primary criteria for me -- whatever package I purchased had
to provide a seamless mechanism to share data bidirectionally with
Solidworks and ProE. Alibre Design reads and writes STEP and ACIS files
as does Solidworks and ProE. One of my main clients -- a machine shop
that makes lots of injection molds and uses Solidworks -- advised me
early on that anything with good STEP and ACIS file support would be
compatible with Solidworks. They do a LOT of data import/export with
their clients so I tend to trust their experience on this issue.
I also studied many posts on the Alibre user's forum as they have many
users that share data between Alibre and Solidworks and ProE. I only
found a very few issues reported and most of those had fairly easy
workarounds, it appeared. It seems that all the 3D solid modeling
software uses very similar methods to describe a design and they all
have quite similar features. I'll be trying to export some simple
assemblies to Solidworks soon, but I really don't expect many (if any)
issues based on my experience so far.
So far I've imported several parts and assemblies created in Solidworks
with no problems found. I've also imported several 3D parts models
(connectors mostly) from Samtec and Molex that worked flawlessly. It
appears that STEP and ACIS files really are very transportable.
It seems the 3D CAD guys learned something the 2D guys (especially Autocad) and PCB CAD guys never did -- it really does pay to have OPEN common file formats that everyone follows and plays nicely with.
Matt Pobursky Maximum Performance Systems
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