How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
(OP)
Hi,
We use Autodesk Inventor and our contract is up on the 30th of this month. There are only 2 M.E's in our company and we want to switch to Solidworks. We got a quote and it's twice as exp as Inventor.
We need 'Solidworks Office Premium' whose equivalent is 'Inventor Profession Suite'. SW is exactly twice as expensive and my boss won't approve it because of the price.
Any suggestions ?
We use Autodesk Inventor and our contract is up on the 30th of this month. There are only 2 M.E's in our company and we want to switch to Solidworks. We got a quote and it's twice as exp as Inventor.
We need 'Solidworks Office Premium' whose equivalent is 'Inventor Profession Suite'. SW is exactly twice as expensive and my boss won't approve it because of the price.
Any suggestions ?






RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
A robust FEA package. IV has none, SW has CosmowWorks.
There's so many, I could go on and on but the thing is, I understand why it's costs more but my boss doesn't. He is not into CAD.
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
Cosmos does what we need.
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
Seems like you understand the differences between the two packages. Translate your perceived benefits of switching software into something your boss will understand. You say you will "save a lot of time", how much time? 10mins a day, 2hrs a day? Convert that estimated savings into hard dollars.
If IV has no FEA package, what are you using now? If you are using nothing, how much does it cost you to send something outside to be analyzed? How much does the company spend a year on this? That figure could be a savings if you had internal FEA capability.
Convert your "so many" reasons into something your boss does understand: ROI. Also, I suggest you look into what else is available out there, as TheTick eludes to, you should also take a hard took at what capabilities you actually need and then see what software will provide you the best answer. Narrow your search down to 2-3 and have them come in-house to demo their software with your workflow.
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RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
That is the difference in price. Do you really need FEA?
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
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3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
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RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
Sorry, it's Friday and the weekend is still seems so far away.
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 3500M
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
Oh, yeah! Ok, nevermind. :)
RetroVirus,
There are a lot of good discussions on eng-tips that touch on this topic in one way or another.
One example is the suggestions to look at your suppliers and customers. What are they using? How much time, money and elimintion of translations errors would you save by moving to the SW because that is what most of your suppliers and customers are using?
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
Also, there's a bunch more info here: h
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 3500M
RE: How to make my company switch to Solidworks ?
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
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