SW vs. SE
SW vs. SE
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I'm currently evaluating each program by going through the tutorials of each. Currently my company has a few seats of SE but my department only uses AutoCad. I've been given the choice of which program to upgrade to. Since our company all ready has a few seats of SE does it make sense to select SE on that basis? We are a manufacturing facility so we don't do much design work. We occasionally design or modify jigs and fixtures. I'm hoping to import CATIA files and build jigs and fixtures around our product. I know SW has a lot more seats out there in use and it would probably benefit me in the long run if I was familar with SW if I had to ever change jobs. On the other hand SE may be the best fit for our company since others are all ready using SE and we could consult with one another to learn and improve using the SE software. Any opinions?






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Sr. Mechanical Engineer
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Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
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Now ask yourself what are the posibilitys of having to change to just one cad package company wide.
If you give a lot of thought to these questions you will be closer to coming to a desission.
Good Luck
Roger
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For my evaluation I'm working through the tutorials of each comparing notes as I go. I see things I like about both as well as things I dislike.
Thank you to rporter for a non biased reply.
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John
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GET SW IMMEDIATELY!!! AVOID SE AT ALL COST!!!
Hope that was helpful.
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We make sheet metal and I use alot of spreadsheet driven assemblies. In all the packages you can have a sheet metal part where the bend angle can go from 0 to 90° of from 90° to 180° only SolidWorks was able to cross the 90° mark. say change from 75° to 130°. This depended on the part being turned into sheet metal as the last step in part construction. If you start as a sheet metal part the result was the same.
RE: SW vs. SE
1) Ease of use during evaluation
2) More SW users in both our customer and supplier base
3) Legacy Data Maintainance (with the DWG Editor built in to SW)
4) e-drawings
5) Mold Flow Xpress and Cosmos Xpress
6) Ease of VB integration
Just a insight into what influenced our decision....note the above are just some of the highlights in our benchmark that made us choose SW.
Good Luck
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Thanks for everyone's feedback.
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Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
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Isn't it funny that they are the one's offering a referral program to get new clients.
I have one question? What file types of CATIA can I open with SW. SE VAR claimed that SW couldn't do that at all and SE was the only package that could translate CATIA files. I find this hard to believe.
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Garland E. Borowski, PE
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Not exactly sure what the CGR format is, thinks it's some kind of graphics format that Catia can export.
Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.
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I have done it. Works well.
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site
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RE: SW vs. SE
Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.
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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
www.3dvisiontech.com
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RE: SW vs. SE
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site
FAQ371-376
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-1091
FAQ559-716
RE: SW vs. SE
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
www.3dvisiontech.com
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
FAQ559-716 - SW Fora Users