×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

MDT4 upgrade??

MDT4 upgrade??

MDT4 upgrade??

(OP)
Hi Guys,
I'm thinking of getting out company to upgrade from MDT4. Do any of you have any advice on if this is worth while? Should we just upgrade to MDT6 or Inventor?

Does anyone know when autodesk will stop upgrades from MDT4?

Any help/advice on this would be useful.

Cheers

RE: MDT4 upgrade??

Do you mean upgrade from MDT4 to MDT5?  By all means, if you can upgrade to MDT6, that is the way I would go.

Flores

RE: MDT4 upgrade??

MDT6 is fine but MDT2004 (ie MDT "7") is out being beta tested for weeks now so should be available in June/July.

Of cause they will throw in Inventor with it and write it up as an Inventor sale.

Maybe a point below might interest someone (for MDT4 on)..

*RClick during drawing with polylines (pline or pl) to avoid pecking at the keyboard to nominate arc etc.

*Length of blue extrusion direction arrow is the value entered in the extrusion input box. Visual design aid.

*Grip editing a profiled sketch to make gross changes without trying to drive it there with dimensions.

*Use of AmPowerDim and AmPowerEdit to pickup existing dimensions. I note that editing (modifying) a dimension equation using AmModDim requires rewriting the entire equation at the command line while with power editing you can make only the necessary changes in a dialog box. Similarly with new dimensions using AmParDim you have to write out a whole new equation while with power dimension you nominate an existing dimension equation and edit it only as necessary (AmDimDsp for display as equations and, if you want, AmVars to set names for variables ie Width instead of d2 for example. See the 'P=' flyout button on the 2D Constraints toolbar).

*Try using AmCopyOut and AmCopyIn instead of the AmCatalog initiated xrefing based proceedure when wanting to write a file out or copy one in.

Anyone else out there got something some of us might like to hear about?

Cheers
Aussie John

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources