How to convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
How to convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
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How do you get through to your boss and convince him the value that Solidworks could add to the Engineering department? I have repeatedly asked if we could add this software in our budget, and he looks at me as if I had just asked if we could go to Mars for lunch. I know there are 30 day trial packages, but I do not think he could be convinces in 30 days. I have not used Solidworks for a couple of years now, because of a change of employment. I can get my hands on 2004, but it will not run on my laptop because of the Vista thing. Plus I want to stay legal. I have thought about acquiring my own copy of 2009 student edition, to stay up to date in case any job opportunities ever come up in my area, but I am not a student.






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Matt Lorono
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Silicon Valley, CA
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Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
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RE: How to convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
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RE: How to convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
If you manager sees that products can be sold cheaper, communication could be better, or more customers could be sought after because you have 3D capabilities, maybe he will change his mind.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
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"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - Dr. W. Edwards Deming
RE: How to convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
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RE: How to convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
Try to talk your SolidWorks VAR into giving you a free 90-day license. That should be enough time to prove the worth of SolidWorks. If you purchase SW Office Premium, you will also get add-ins such as CosmosWorks Designer (static FEA), PhotoWorks, (rendering), Routing (cables), Motion simulation, etc. SolidWorks surfacing capabilities are now almost on par with Pro-E.
I do contract / consulting work, and I currently get more requests for SW than Pro-E at the moment.
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Chris Thompson
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Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
RE: How to convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
Second make sure everyone who is buying into the idea has a desire to make it work.
Third show him the money. You already stated that you could pay for Solidworks from the budget of one job. If you can show the cost savings this will get his attention. Again use tact and make sure you don't overstate the savings. Remember there are costs other then the price of software associated with implementation of any CAD software i.e. training, inefficiency due to learning curve, converting drawings, setting up standards, templates, and standard parts.
Lastly even though it is not an absolute requirement. Investigate and try to factor in the cost of a PDM system especially if you will have more than one seat. We use PDMWorks and I recommend it but there are also other good PDM systems out there.
Good luck.
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1) speed of use - get more work done
2) avoid costly screw ups
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Training expenses should be considered. You will always want a better computer, too.
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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2008 SP4
Nvidia Quadro FX 1000
AMD Athalon 1.8 GHz 2 Gig RAM
RE: How to convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
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 convince boss to give Solidworks a try?
Then use it to do something simple and try to show how much faster you can work with it.
I had a problem patterning a tapered feature in a complex Pro/E part, and did it with an old copy of SW in about a week.
Since we had a tight deadline, it was cost effective at that point for my supervisor to spend on the SW seat than it was for him to have me struggle for another month.
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