We use it for Sheet-metal design and for machining. A third party program is utilized to convert cad models into machine language.
One of the features we liked about Solid works is that there architecture is open to third party vendors. Many of these third party
vendors have produced excellent programs for stress and heat analysis, machining, etc. It may be that the
feature you need for producing mold designs is also available.
Jeff
We found the Mold Design package to be lacking or perhaps the person who
came in to conduct the demonstration was...
Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: jhouse@... [mailto:jhouse@...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:13 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] (off topice) Unigraphics computers
We also have a Pro-E Seat as well as AutoCAD and Cadkey. But since we
started using Solidworks we use the others only for
files we can't open any other way.
Jeff
San Jose, CA
Some years ago (seven, I think), our company hired John Steffen Assoc's in
St Louis to move all of our Prime (formerly ComputerVision) files to a Sun
Sparc2 box on which resided AutoCad 13. The unix box was a "holding" cell
for .DXF files until such time as the Novell server was upgraded to
accommodate all the THOUSANDS of dxf's we had. The reason we had AutoCad
on the box was for reviewing Medusa files, just in case. From AutoCad's
dxf format we translated to Bentley's MicroStation (DWG
format). MicroStation, however, outlived its usefulness due to some major
foot-dragging in the 3D solids arena. MicroStation modeler (even version
J) just couldn't hold a candle to SolidWorks, our current design
platform. Software houses are now jumping on the band wagon with
SolidWorks as fast as they did with MicroStation.
That said, why would anyone go with ProEngineer when there is such a better
front-end in SolidWorks? Yes, we have seats of ProEngineer, but
"unfriendly" is the term everyone around here uses to describe its
front-end.
Just Curious in South Portland
Dan Maddox
Pactiv Corp
758 Westbrook St
So Portland ME 04106-1929
v 207-756-6448
f 207-774-3654
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One of the features we liked about Solid works is that there architecture is open to third party vendors. Many of these third party
vendors have produced excellent programs for stress and heat analysis, machining, etc. It may be that the
feature you need for producing mold designs is also available.
Jeff
>>> eli3@... 02/21/01 10:21AM >>>Out of curiosity, are you using SolidWorks for Part Design or Mold Design?
We found the Mold Design package to be lacking or perhaps the person who
came in to conduct the demonstration was...
Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: jhouse@... [mailto:jhouse@...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:13 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] (off topice) Unigraphics computers
We also have a Pro-E Seat as well as AutoCAD and Cadkey. But since we
started using Solidworks we use the others only for
files we can't open any other way.
Jeff
San Jose, CA
>>> dmaddox@... 02/21/01 09:57AM >>>Terry-
Some years ago (seven, I think), our company hired John Steffen Assoc's in
St Louis to move all of our Prime (formerly ComputerVision) files to a Sun
Sparc2 box on which resided AutoCad 13. The unix box was a "holding" cell
for .DXF files until such time as the Novell server was upgraded to
accommodate all the THOUSANDS of dxf's we had. The reason we had AutoCad
on the box was for reviewing Medusa files, just in case. From AutoCad's
dxf format we translated to Bentley's MicroStation (DWG
format). MicroStation, however, outlived its usefulness due to some major
foot-dragging in the 3D solids arena. MicroStation modeler (even version
J) just couldn't hold a candle to SolidWorks, our current design
platform. Software houses are now jumping on the band wagon with
SolidWorks as fast as they did with MicroStation.
That said, why would anyone go with ProEngineer when there is such a better
front-end in SolidWorks? Yes, we have seats of ProEngineer, but
"unfriendly" is the term everyone around here uses to describe its
front-end.
Just Curious in South Portland
Dan Maddox
Pactiv Corp
758 Westbrook St
So Portland ME 04106-1929
v 207-756-6448
f 207-774-3654
at 05:01 PM 2/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Speaking of Unigraphics, anyone doing translation from Unigraphics toa
>ProEngineer? How are you doing it? I've been wrestling with this one for
>couple months.year
>
>How about ComputerVision to ProEngineer (although PTC bought CV about a
>and a half ago, PTC still doesn't have anything in the way of translationYahoo! Groups Sponsor
>from their former competitor).
>
>TIA
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