CAD Software Development OverHead
CAD Software Development OverHead
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I am interested in the amount of overhead of cad software for other companies. Our company is struggling greatly due to the completions of library parts and proper templates, let along development work regarding our specific products.
What areas of development would you say is possible for a third party to do?
How much product knowledge of your specific products would be needed to further development by third party?
I appreciate any thoughts you all might give, and feel free to ask additional questions.
Thanks
What areas of development would you say is possible for a third party to do?
How much product knowledge of your specific products would be needed to further development by third party?
I appreciate any thoughts you all might give, and feel free to ask additional questions.
Thanks
Michael McMillan
http://cadtechie.blogspot.com/






RE: CAD Software Development OverHead
I take it you meant your company is struggling to complete all of your library parts and templates, and not struggling because they are finished. What I have found best is to not try to create your entire library at once, but rather create library parts and templates as they are required.
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RE: CAD Software Development OverHead
Michael McMillan
http://cadtechie.blogspot.com/
RE: CAD Software Development OverHead
PDM may help manage the situation for you, and going thru the evaluation process may help educate the management level of what it takes to work togethor. It takes time to educate people about the process, not sure what they understand of course but you may need to walk them thru it in a manner they can understand. Just some thoughts with very little knowledge of your situation.
All the Best
Snowshoe2
RE: CAD Software Development OverHead
Libraries and template are a very bad thing to outsource IMHO. You know what you are designing and how you design it. You understand your CAD, modeling and drawing requirements. As your requirements change, you understand the change and you can respond to it.
Your library should somehow acquire screws and stuff. After that, you add things as you specify them, and organize your PDM accordingly.
Take time to think through modeling rules. If all your screw models are copied from the same template file, you will be able to use SolidWorks' replace feature to switch between unified national cap screws to metric pan head machine screws, etc.
Your profile cards should be set up so that you can copy and paste from your BOMs, into your requisition form.
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JHG