please consider using EDS' Solid Edge newsgroups
please consider using EDS' Solid Edge newsgroups
(OP)
All,
I've been reading through many of the posts and replies here. There seems to be something "lacking" from many of the replies, ranging from inaccurate answers to no answers.
I'd really like to suggest everyone with a current Solid Edge maintenance contract try using the EDS newsgroups dedicated to Solid Edge. The users there are everday SE designers, engineers and support folks who can provide expertise and real answers to your questions. On ocassion, an EDS Solid Edge employee will even respond to you or post a request for user input.
Look here for instructions.
http://support.ugs.com/html/conferencing.html
You can use either a standard news reader or a Web browser. You will need a WebKey for authentication to access these newsgroups. Your system administrator or the person who purchased the software for your company should have the required information.
Regards,
Kevin
I've been reading through many of the posts and replies here. There seems to be something "lacking" from many of the replies, ranging from inaccurate answers to no answers.
I'd really like to suggest everyone with a current Solid Edge maintenance contract try using the EDS newsgroups dedicated to Solid Edge. The users there are everday SE designers, engineers and support folks who can provide expertise and real answers to your questions. On ocassion, an EDS Solid Edge employee will even respond to you or post a request for user input.
Look here for instructions.
http://support.ugs.com/html/conferencing.html
You can use either a standard news reader or a Web browser. You will need a WebKey for authentication to access these newsgroups. Your system administrator or the person who purchased the software for your company should have the required information.
Regards,
Kevin





RE: please consider using EDS' Solid Edge newsgroups
I heartily Agree, While I don't want to belittle the usefulness of this discussion group, The Solid Edge Newsgroups Hosted by EDS are an invaluable resource to any SE user, and probably the main reason that this discussion group is not that active, which may give the impression that not that many people are using Solid Edge. on the contrary you will be surprised by the amount of traffic on the EDS newsgroups compared to this one.
My .02ยข
RE: please consider using EDS' Solid Edge newsgroups
Besides, many SE users are dissappointed with the amount of marketing that EDS does with the SE products. Having more traffic flow here will show other CAD users that SE is still a contender.
RE: please consider using EDS' Solid Edge newsgroups
I'm sure there are many small co's like ours that cannot justify the continuing expense of the maintenance contract with its attendant costs of constant upgrades and hardware expenses (especially after 9/11 last year). We use V11 and it really added no major improvements for us over V10.
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Jim Johnson
jijoh@hotmail.com
RE: please consider using EDS' Solid Edge newsgroups
Go to a college or university that uses SE and take a course that will allow you to get the help you want. Great for networking too. Remember, life long learning.Good Luck with your business venture.
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Thanks,
Jim
RE: please consider using EDS' Solid Edge newsgroups
By reading this forum and others, I know that there are at least 6 or 7 patches for V11. When I called EDS Help Desk to see if I could download the latest patches, they quoted the maintenance clause and told me to buy into the latest version.
They would rather let me use a version of software that they know to contain bugs, than to help me out. These are not minor bugs, either. I remember that one of the things the first patch did was to fix the fact that SketchPoint didn't work.
From what it sounds like, I'm not the only one.
One last point. We all paid for the software initially and probably followed that with a few years of maintenance. I had a Webkey, and I used it quite a bit. What's the harm in allowing the 'expired' users access to the forum. We have the insight that probably will help many other users. The only thing that changed is that we couldn't afford to keep paying maintenance.
I'm all for making this forum work.
Thanks,
Chris