×
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

Merging IDEAS and UG

Merging IDEAS and UG

Merging IDEAS and UG

(OP)
Does anyone have an updated/better timeline for when iDEAS and UG are going to be merged.  Also when is iDEAS switching to the Parasolid kernel.

RE: Merging IDEAS and UG

Ideas is using the Parasolid kernel now.

The mereger is a long term deal that had to be coordinated with various customers. From my understanding Ideas V10 is out and UG NX V2 is also out. There will be a NX V3 next year and then the next release will see the merger complete. I would guess that will be mid-2005. I don't know if there will be an Ideas V11.

UG V18.4 and Ideas V9.1 could share files. UG can open a .xpk from Ideas directly.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

RE: Merging IDEAS and UG

(OP)
When you say Ideas is using it now, is that V10 because V9 is not?  Granted you can export a Parasolid but there is no history.

Being a UG desiger I am just wondering what if any benefit there is to being trained in Ideas since it is going to be merged.  Other then learning other techniques I am struggling to see the benefits.

Ross

RE: Merging IDEAS and UG

I am pretty sure I-deas is NOT running a parasolid kernel.
It would be a huge kernel change.
I believe there are no plans to make I-deas native parasolid. The I-deas  ---> UG merge should yield a ugnx product with parasolid kernel. Ug will pick up some of i-deas positive traits, and I-deas will die.

It is true we can export a parasolid/xpk file to ug, but it is not always perfect because it is a conversion

Automotive Designer

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