Industry standard CAD.
Industry standard CAD.
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There are a number of CAD packages in the marketplace.
The more well known ones are AutoCAD , Solidworks , TurboCAD etc.
Is there a preference for one over any other?
Is this just the choice of the individual user?
Cheers , Pete.
The more well known ones are AutoCAD , Solidworks , TurboCAD etc.
Is there a preference for one over any other?
Is this just the choice of the individual user?
Cheers , Pete.





RE: Industry standard CAD.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Industry standard CAD.
You need to know Catia or Unigraphics round here. The good (ie busy) guys know both.
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Greg Locock
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The only practical choice is to match what your customers or your suppliers have. Having a sufficiently portable design data interface makes coordination above and below substantially easier and less prone to oddball translation artifacts.
TTFN
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In regards to using the same package as your customer/supplier, I disagree. From my experience, even if our main core CAD package is the same as our end customer, we will only send them a converted to native language STEP/IGES packaging envelope to remove all of our proprietary technology and the CAD structure tree. We will never send them a raw native langage part. We keep basic seats of the other packages only to make sure the translation goes correclty when we deal with stubborn customers that demand files in their native language (non Step/IGES format, but must be UG, CATIA, or Pro-E).
-Ryan
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If so from what I know I'd say the above are probably correct about Unigraphics, Catia & Pro E.
If you mean mechanical engineering generally then there are a bunch more. In my part of the world Solid Works is popular but we actually use Solid Edge which though less common here is popular elsewhere.
If you're talking about civil type work then they still seem to be 2D a lot of the time, especially AutoCAD.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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I've seen the results of asking for a file in a native package. Crap. You may as well send an iges file instead of opening an iges in UG and sending that as native. Parasolids or stp files are far more robust than iges, and are what we request when the vendor does not use the same software as we do.
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RE: Industry standard CAD.
thread108-45579: Which OEM uses what CAD
Best regards,

Matthew Ian Loew
www.daxcon.com
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I would be inclined to agree. I would much rather send a stp file, but some customers I have worked with will not accept anything but their native language file format.
mloew-
interesting old thread: I am curious how it would look updated now that it is 5 years later. I would assume that the companies that used I-DEAS has since switched to UG or NX?
It surprises me how many Powertrain areas were Pro/E, and I am curious if this is still the case after the latest CATIA V5 and Pro/E Wildfire.
-Ryan
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There have been no real defections in automotive for some time; the last being when Ford announced that CATIA would be the standard for new programs rather than migrating to UG NX from I-DEAS. I'm guessing this had much to do with Chris Theodore (now with ASC Inc.) piloting it on the Ford GT program. I was at a presentation of his where he continually used the word "CATIA" when he simply meant "CAD". I think the biggest development for the automotive industry was Autodesk purchasing Alias.
Automakers will always want the native CAD; suppliers will always resist (for two reasons: not wanting to support the CAD package if they are not already standard on it and for IP protection). Fortunately there are so many good interoperability options now that it is less of an issue.
All this being said, there is no reliable, publicly available market study for CAD & CAE usage in industry as far as I can tell. All that information is privately held but can be purcha$$ed.
Best regards,

Matthew Ian Loew
www.daxcon.com
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KENAT , Yes I was refering to the auto industry and should have mentioned that in the original post.
mloew , Thanks for the link. I will have a look shortly.
Cheers , Pete.
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This software is extremely cheap and works well for simple parts. It's enough and i'ts an huge advance for users that are doing mechanical parts in AutoCAD.
RE: Industry standard CAD.
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Matthew Ian Loew
www.daxcon.com