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Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

(OP)
Matt Lombard has a series of posts which has led up to this poll on which features people would most like to see in upcoming releases of SolidWorks.  I'm posting this here to let you know about it and gather some larger numbers for this poll.  If you're interested in voicing your opinion for which "top ten" features you'd like to see (and which you'd rather pass up), take the poll here:

http://www.dezignstuff.com/blog/?p=2897

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

How about an addin that inflicts physical pain on the developers when things don't work as advertised.  Pain goes up exponentially for every service pack that fails to fix a known issue.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

(OP)
Darn--too late to add that to the list for the vote.  Maybe next year?  Maybe at SWW 2010 in a month?

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I'd like to see help files and tutorials that are exactly in sync with the UI.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

More speed.  This tool is still far too slow on large assemblies for me.

Forget new features - just make it go faster.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I am 100% with Acciardi.......make it faster & more combatible for 64 bit as that is the future.

Take out all the bugs.......

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I would like to see some of the CATIA surfacing capabilities passed down.

Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Conics, conics, conics!!!

CSWP-Surf

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I'm a bit surprised to see that Matt didn't include tiered subscription support on his list.  I'm also surprised to see the the PW - PV360 mash-up isn't voted higher.  Not very many people using it?

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Dan,
Tiered subscription? You mean like this?

Quote (Poll Results):


Give more detailed options for support/subscription, including options that don't require VARs (26%, 28 Votes)

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Yeah, but more specific, I guess.  Meh, maybe I should pay more attention what I vote on.  I guess I'm truly American after all.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Quote (Kevin DeSmet):

Conics, conics, conics!!!
Asking for what is already 75% there.  SW sketches already support circles, ellipses, and parabolas.

Conic blends would be nice.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Can't we define a curve with an equation now? Conics, polar curves, etc. Of course you can't make equation driven curves become tangent or any of that stuff.  

TOP
CSWP, BSSE
www.engtran.com  www.niswug.org

"Node news is good news."

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

(OP)
Conics ought to be quite simple to employ, and they'd have huge benefits over the existing available sketch tools.  Why does SW overlook this each year?  I'd guess the cost to implement this tool would be far below the cost to implement many of the other suggestions (in terms of required code generation), while the benefits to users who know what conics are would be huge.

Equation-based curves are far too stodgy to quickly test a variety of forms (adding to the lack of continuity or tangency settings as Paul mentioned--things which are obvious must-haves).

Splines get lost as soon as you begin moving the edges or guide curves to which they're attached--particularly when you've got any points between the ends--so each use of a spline must be tweaked anytime the base geometry moves at all.  Very tedious.

I'll bet the time/code required might be equivalent to the Magnifying Glass feature recently added.  Ask for something for years, don't get it.  Don't ask, don't need, receive it.

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

For optics conics are really needed.  We need to be able to create hyperbolas.  Ellipses are also a pain to dimension and really clutter a sketch.  Equation curves are not configurable and are therefore of limited value.

Rob Stupplebeen

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Believe it or not some of us need the other 25% of conics missing in SW(hyperbolics). The other issue that could be addressed with a conic function is that the surfaces created could be more accurate. As it is now the surfaces created using the equation driven curve tool are not close to being accurate enough to use for anyone designing optical components. For anyone designing in components that are spec'd using a Rho constant or that need to define surfaces for production that way, the current lack of conics is a pain. Most people may not care and that's fine but for many it is a big deal.

I would assume that adding conics would fall somewhere between OS-X native software and crinkled paper background both of which I can live without.

Harold
SW2009 SP4.0 OPW2009 SP2 Win XP Pro 2002 SP3
Dell 690, Xeon 5160 @3.00GHz, 3.25GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX4600
www.lumenflow.com

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Thanks. I needed that. Strangely I didn't vote for any new features. Just make the ones that are there work better.  

TOP
CSWP, BSSE
www.engtran.com  www.niswug.org

"Node news is good news."

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I understand and agree.  Just nitpicking.

SW is too lazy to address.  That, or they simply do not understand.  Waiting for SW to catch up to where Pro/E was 15 years ago.  Such a simple thing.  Instead, they waste time inventing new "wizards" for things competent designers can already do in their sleep.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Now now, let's not get carried away, there's no need to diss the crinkled paper background - because it is awesome! :)

While I agree conics may not be of concern to many folks, but there's no reason not to have them either. Hell, Inventor has more conic abilities which kind of disturbs me...

CSWP-Surf

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I think that the drawing side of solidworks needs attention for speed and drawing ability, i work with a old skool design engineer and he hates 3D and loves 2D because he can draw what he wants to represent the part/assembly on the paper. you are limitied to what you can show at certain levels.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Hyperbola would also be needed for speaker design.  I needed it for a clarinet bell.  Forced to settle for a wandering spline.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I love that you just ripped on the crinkled paper background!!  I can't believe they actually spent time and money on that useless "feature".  I really hope it was busy work when they were close to the launch date.   

Certified SolidWorks Associate
SW2009 X64 SP 1.0
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0
 

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Would like to delete any reference easier.
Select from a list of which to break or delete.
I dont know if it is added to 2010.

Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I couldn't help myself for the crinkled paper knock. More people might have found the "feature" humorous if the release was a lot smoother. I keep picturing some poor intern writing this code, having it work like it is supposed to and then getting razed on the forums.

The last time I checked conics were about mid-pack in the voting.  

Harold
SW2010 SP1.0 OPW2010 SP1.0 Win XP Pro 2002 SP3
Dell 690, Xeon 5160 @3.00GHz, 3.25GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX4600
www.lumenflow.com

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Conics are a bit out there as far as utility.  Not really for 80th-percentile design, but still fundamental for a lot of things.  Enough so that it is really silly that SW has ignored it for so long, while squandering their development resources on crap.

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

Well said Tick, it's not the fact they haven't focused on conics, it's that they focused on other things that are of even less concern like the magnifying glass -- that's what makes it so unfortunate, I suppose.

CSWP-Surf

RE: Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

I would like to see:
1) the leader placement appear in Annotations, when you place multiple lines, without having to click out and back in.
2) the stacked balloon style to contain "None" as the Border style does.
3) the leader placement on multiple line, vertical, dimensions, work when pulled outside the extension lines.

Sylvia

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