Solidworks Vs Solid edge
Solidworks Vs Solid edge
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I am evaluating CAD packages at the moment, and I am wondering if anyone can tell me what is the main differences between Solidworks and Solidedge?
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RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
John Richards Sr. Mech. Engr.
Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics
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RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
Look over the web.
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http://www.cadinfo.net/
http://www.cadserver.co.uk/
http://www.cadwire.net/
http://www.cadcam.net/
I'm sure this has been discussed some where.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

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RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
Consider which reseller has the best support in your area and also the price.
The other point to consider is that while SE is a very good package, it may be consigned to the same fate as WordPerfect. Being good or better does not guarantee survival. SWX has a larger market share (and is growing faster) than SE. That means that you're more likely to find customers/vendors using SWX than SE. You're also more likely to find people who know SWX over SE (though to me, if you know how to model then jumping between packages is not that big a deal). Finally, you would be making yourself more marketable by learning SWX than SE. Just take a gander through Monster to see the relative number of postings looking for SWX experience as opposed to SE.
SE is a good package but I don't think it's got sufficient market penetration to hold on. I believe it's destined to become the WordPerfect or 123 of the modeling world.
RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
Unless the price difference is significant, I'd go with SolidWorks.
RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
I have seen both SE and SW...and use SW. I have heard something about UG shaking things up, possibly with SE. But do not know details.
RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
If you believe industry pundits like Joe Greco and the others, Solid Edge is certainly a worthy package. However, the big problem is dealer support. Particularly in my area the few EDS dealers are more interested in pushing services such as overpriced contract designers, rather selling and servicing SE seats.
Some SW dealers are better than others, but you also have a strong user group community, and top forums like this one, backing them up.
Also consider surveying your customers and vendors. Try to get an idea which package is more popular among them. That should be a good indicator of the service in your area and the ability to find experienced talent.
DesignSmith
www.DesignSmith-Services.com
RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
My recollections from those conversations are that each camp felt that their package had clear advantages over the other. Primarily though they seemed to agree that SW was a better platform for machined/molded components and that SE was the way to go for sheet metal functionality. Now obviously quite a bit has happened in development over the intervening years so the statements might well be quite outdated.
Additionally SE had some built "data management" tools as I remember. These were a significant factor in its favor during our evaluation and gave us pause before we ultimately went with SW.
By all means I would encourage you to learn as much as you can about each package. Try to think about the types of components and assemblies that you design and the various operations involved in their manufacture that you'll be trying to emulate within the Solid Modeling environment. Have examples of the type of work you do when meeting with the VAR reps. Have them show you how the product can help you do YOUR job better rather than show you the canned demo. These are all things we did that ultimately assisted us in making the right choice for us in that company at that time.
Hope this info was of some usefulness to you.
Chris Gervais
Sr. Mechanical Designer
Lytron Corp.
RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
You may also want to post this to SE forum. (You may then have information from both SWX and SE users.)
RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
Also, this has more traffic, not necessarily because it is a better program, but because SWX did a better marketing job and has a larger market share. More seats = more users with questions = more posts to any and all forums.
The question of longevity of SE is just misunderstandings about the corporate umbrella that SE is under. SE and UG just got bought out by private investors from EDS. This is very good news for both CAD packages because EDS only advertised its IT services, never its products. As its own company, you will start seeing marketting ads for SE and UG and therefore I think they'll start regaining market share from SWX.
To get back on topic. The only difference between SWX and SE is workflow. I like tell the software what I want to accomplish and it gives me step-by-step on how to get there. This is SE's workflow. With SWX, you start with a sketch and tell the program what to make of the sketch (and in my case only to be yelled at that I didn't include enough info to actually create that feature.) Other than that, you SE and SWX are the same, feature-for-feature, realizing that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Just because you do it one way in one CAD package doesn't mean it can't be done in another simply because you don't do it the same way.
If you're on a tight budget, I'd also look at Alibre Design.
--Scott
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RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
As an early user of SE, I also agree that its lack of market share has nothing to do with its quality as a program. It's very good.
I genuinely hope I prove to be wrong about its longevity. No doubt that SWX is a much better program than it would've been otherwise without the creativity of the SE team.
Granted, SWX doesn't have the same ability as MS had to force their products to the forefront but I'm still concerned that users' desires for a defacto standard will keep SE down and may ultimately kill it. Of course, this hasn't happened in the FEA world where multiple packages still coexist.
RE: Solidworks Vs Solid edge
John Richards Sr. Mech. Engr.
Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics
There are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.