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Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

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Theophilus

Theophilus

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Dec 4, 2002
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Matt Lombard has a series of posts which has led up to this poll on which features people would most like to see in upcoming releases of SolidWorks. I'm posting this here to let you know about it and gather some larger numbers for this poll. If you're interested in voicing your opinion for which "top ten" features you'd like to see (and which you'd rather pass up), take the poll here:




Jeff Mowry
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
 
How about an addin that inflicts physical pain on the developers when things don't work as advertised. Pain goes up exponentially for every service pack that fails to fix a known issue.
 
Darn--too late to add that to the list for the vote. Maybe next year? Maybe at SWW 2010 in a month?



Jeff Mowry
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
 
I'd like to see help files and tutorials that are exactly in sync with the UI.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
 
More speed. This tool is still far too slow on large assemblies for me.

Forget new features - just make it go faster.
 
I am 100% with Acciardi.......make it faster & more combatible for 64 bit as that is the future.

Take out all the bugs.......
 
Conics, conics, conics!!!

CSWP-Surf
 
I'm a bit surprised to see that Matt didn't include tiered subscription support on his list. I'm also surprised to see the the PW - PV360 mash-up isn't voted higher. Not very many people using it?

Dan

Dan's Blog
 
Dan,
Tiered subscription? You mean like this?

Poll Results said:
Give more detailed options for support/subscription, including options that don't require VARs (26%, 28 Votes)
Click to expand...

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
 
Kevin DeSmet said:
Conics, conics, conics!!!
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Asking for what is already 75% there. SW sketches already support circles, ellipses, and parabolas.

Conic blends would be nice.
 
Can't we define a curve with an equation now? Conics, polar curves, etc. Of course you can't make equation driven curves become tangent or any of that stuff.

TOP
CSWP, BSSE

"Node news is good news."
 
Conics ought to be quite simple to employ, and they'd have huge benefits over the existing available sketch tools. Why does SW overlook this each year? I'd guess the cost to implement this tool would be far below the cost to implement many of the other suggestions (in terms of required code generation), while the benefits to users who know what conics are would be huge.

Equation-based curves are far too stodgy to quickly test a variety of forms (adding to the lack of continuity or tangency settings as Paul mentioned--things which are obvious must-haves).

Splines get lost as soon as you begin moving the edges or guide curves to which they're attached--particularly when you've got any points between the ends--so each use of a spline must be tweaked anytime the base geometry moves at all. Very tedious.

I'll bet the time/code required might be equivalent to the Magnifying Glass feature recently added. Ask for something for years, don't get it. Don't ask, don't need, receive it.



Jeff Mowry
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
 
For optics conics are really needed. We need to be able to create hyperbolas. Ellipses are also a pain to dimension and really clutter a sketch. Equation curves are not configurable and are therefore of limited value.

Rob Stupplebeen
 
Believe it or not some of us need the other 25% of conics missing in SW(hyperbolics). The other issue that could be addressed with a conic function is that the surfaces created could be more accurate. As it is now the surfaces created using the equation driven curve tool are not close to being accurate enough to use for anyone designing optical components. For anyone designing in components that are spec'd using a Rho constant or that need to define surfaces for production that way, the current lack of conics is a pain. Most people may not care and that's fine but for many it is a big deal.

I would assume that adding conics would fall somewhere between OS-X native software and crinkled paper background both of which I can live without.

Harold
SW2009 SP4.0 OPW2009 SP2 Win XP Pro 2002 SP3
Dell 690, Xeon 5160 @3.00GHz, 3.25GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX4600
 
I understand and agree. Just nitpicking.

SW is too lazy to address. That, or they simply do not understand. Waiting for SW to catch up to where Pro/E was 15 years ago. Such a simple thing. Instead, they waste time inventing new "wizards" for things competent designers can already do in their sleep.
 
Now now, let's not get carried away, there's no need to diss the crinkled paper background - because it is awesome! :)

While I agree conics may not be of concern to many folks, but there's no reason not to have them either. Hell, Inventor has more conic abilities which kind of disturbs me...

CSWP-Surf
 
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