Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
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Hello
I use Solidworks a customer I work with uses Pro E we both want to work on the project together. There is no chance of either of us swapping platforms.
Does anyone have any tips/experiences for the best way to do this?
Is it best that one has the master model with all the history and then the other mods a step file give it back to other, who then adds the new features to the master? Obviously this would cause duplicate work, but if we both work on a step and mods were needed all the history would be lost.
Cheers,
Wayne.
I use Solidworks a customer I work with uses Pro E we both want to work on the project together. There is no chance of either of us swapping platforms.
Does anyone have any tips/experiences for the best way to do this?
Is it best that one has the master model with all the history and then the other mods a step file give it back to other, who then adds the new features to the master? Obviously this would cause duplicate work, but if we both work on a step and mods were needed all the history would be lost.
Cheers,
Wayne.






RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
We don't work accross different platform but when we divide a project between different designers we use references planes to position sub-assemblys related to one another. So when we update, every relations stay connected. Each designer is responsible for his own sub-assembly so others won't do modifications to it, instead they will ask the owner of the sub-asy to make them.
Hope it helps
Patrick
RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
Rob Stupplebeen
www.optimaldevice.com
RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
Can you send IGES or STEP files back and forth. How much collaboration do you need to do?
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JHG
RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
Chris, CSWA
SolidWorks 14
SolidWorks Legion
RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
More detail about how you are collaborating may be helpful.
David
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RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
At that time, most of the ID work was done on Alias, and that work was used as a template to make engineering CAD. Sometimes work was generated in another CAD platform and imported and then redone/refined as necessary.
Similarly, you will need to pick one platform to be the master. One organization needs ultimate responsibility for design documentation. Work done in any other platform should only go as far as necessary to document concepts, and then finished in the master platform.
RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
Good luck.
Shashi
RE: Best way to work with both Solidworks and Pro engineer on one Project
Since you are in a dumb-file communication mode then your best bet is to establish which system will be the master and put all parametric features there, as Patrick indicated. For any development work performed in the secondary system then you will have to work out what works best for your styles of communication. It could be as "simple" as saving the dumb solids with a version or date code in the filename and running comparisons of the master to the new dumb solid and then making changes in the master to get them to match. Of course, the person making the changes in the secondary system could keep a log of their changes, perhaps using screen shots or even avi files, to help communicate the changes and design intent.
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