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Comparable Price to SW?

Comparable Price to SW?

Comparable Price to SW?

(OP)
Hello,
Our business is looking to purchase a new solid modeling package. I've heard that SW and SE both are very comparable as far as function goes, but is SE close to the approximate $5,000-$6,000 that I can expect to spend on one seat of SW?
Thanks,
Zack

RE: Comparable Price to SW?

(OP)
P.S. Does anyone have a guess on how much one seat of Unigraphics would cost? Thanks.

RE: Comparable Price to SW?

Solid Edge is ~$5000 per seat, $1200/yr maintenance.

UG depends on the licensing bundle you get.  You'll have to call on that one, but expect no less than $10,000.

--Scott

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RE: Comparable Price to SW?

FWIW, I was able to purchase the basic SE @ $4K including one year maintenance just last month as a special for Cadkey users.  Some of the add-ons are a bit over priced and can run it up to 6K, add another 6K for the mold design package.   

RE: Comparable Price to SW?

(OP)
Thanks to all for your input. It has been very helpful.
Regards,
Zack

RE: Comparable Price to SW?

I believe that the $4k is through the end of June. (including the 1st year of Maint.)

You'd be lucky to get into the UG arena for less than $15K for a decent package to be well rounded. It'll also take you month's to learn and many days of wasted time for setup of all of different aspects of the package. I've used it for about 8mo now and still don't like to use the program. It's worse than Pro/E was 5 years ago.

I can't wait until our contract is up for this job and I can go back to using Edge.

Kevin

RE: Comparable Price to SW?

I totally disagree with Kevin on the comaprison of UG to Pro/E. I have been using UG for 15+ years and Pro/E for 3.
UG is much easier to set up and customize. There are so many options that in Pro/E that have no documentation that it is a wonder anyone can even use the program. As for training, we trained our UG users in 1 week at CADPO adn they came back ready to work. With Pro/E, our basic training takes 12 days and then another 7 days advanced training. And that is without special modules like RSD, Cabling, Piping and Mechanica.

As for cost, you can get UG for less than $10K, but it won't do everything. A manufacturing bundle is $25K.

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