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PDM works ! Works best. If you guys don't have it, ask your management to upgrade to Professional. It comes with it. Arun Mechanical Engineer. Solidworks 2008,Inventor-2009, Cosmosworks,CosmosMotion,CosmosFloworks.

No one's jumping into bed with anything. We really can't justify purchasing Ansys or Algor. Cosmos does what we need.

Does it have an FEA package that comes with it and how exp is UG ?

Complex shape modeling. IV just doesn't cut it. The amount of time we could save is a lot. A robust FEA package. IV has none, SW has CosmowWorks. There's so many, I could go on and on but the thing is, I understand why it's costs more but my boss doesn't. He is not into CAD.

Hi, We use Autodesk Inventor and our contract is up on the 30th of this month. There are only 2 M.E's in our company and we want to switch to Solidworks. We got a quote and it's twice as exp as Inventor. We need 'Solidworks Office Premium' whose equivalent is 'Inventor Profession Suite'. SW...

It doesn't work for me either. Can anyone explain ? Arun Mechanical Engineer. Solidworks 2008,Inventor-2009, Cosmosworks,CosmosMotion,CosmosFloworks.

http://www.the-6thdimension.blogspot.com/ Arun Mechanical Engineer. Solidworks 2008,Inventor-2009, Cosmosworks,CosmosMotion,CosmosFloworks.

Ok, The OCC should me pretty straight forward. Anyways, here's what we do. We should not post email addresses on this site. So, take a look at my blog and you will have access to me e-mail there. We'll take it from there. Arun Mechanical Engineer. Solidworks 2008,Inventor-2009...

I can help you out. What motorcycle do you want ? Can you post a link for something you're interested in.

Thanks guys. I am a Solidworks newbie and thought there may be a way to do it and I just didn't know how. [bigsmile] Fcsuper, yes we should tell this to SW. How do we do that ? Do they actually listen to customers, this is strange for someone like me who's been with Autodesk Inventor for so...

Hi, Newbie here. I have a swept boss using the 'thin feature' and I'm trying to add a thread to the inner diameter. Now of course, I can look up a handbook and put a note in the Cosmetic thread section but that's not my question. My question is, is there a feature similar to "THREAD" in...