Features you'd like to see in SolidWorks

[TommyBritton]

I think that the drawing side of solidworks needs attention for speed and drawing ability, i work with a old skool design engineer and he hates 3D and loves 2D because he can draw what he wants to represent the part/assembly on the paper. you are limitied to what you can show at certain levels.

 

[TheTick]

Hyperbola would also be needed for speaker design. I needed it for a clarinet bell. Forced to settle for a wandering spline.

 

[grunt58]

I love that you just ripped on the crinkled paper background!! I can't believe they actually spent time and money on that useless "feature". I really hope it was busy work when they were close to the launch date.

Certified SolidWorks Associate
SW2009 X64 SP 1.0
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0

 

[ctopher]

Would like to delete any reference easier.
Select from a list of which to break or delete.
I dont know if it is added to 2010.

Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
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[lumenharold]

I couldn't help myself for the crinkled paper knock. More people might have found the "feature" humorous if the release was a lot smoother. I keep picturing some poor intern writing this code, having it work like it is supposed to and then getting razed on the forums.

The last time I checked conics were about mid-pack in the voting.

Harold
SW2010 SP1.0 OPW2010 SP1.0 Win XP Pro 2002 SP3
Dell 690, Xeon 5160 @3.00GHz, 3.25GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX4600

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[TheTick]

Conics are a bit out there as far as utility. Not really for 80th-percentile design, but still fundamental for a lot of things. Enough so that it is really silly that SW has ignored it for so long, while squandering their development resources on crap.

 

[KevinDeSmet]

Well said Tick, it's not the fact they haven't focused on conics, it's that they focused on other things that are of even less concern like the magnifying glass -- that's what makes it so unfortunate, I suppose.

CSWP-Surf

 

[fcsuper]

The ability to have full text editing work the same in dimensions was they do in annotation note fields.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
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and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

 

[felix7502]

I would like to see:
1) the leader placement appear in Annotations, when you place multiple lines, without having to click out and back in.
2) the stacked balloon style to contain "None" as the Border style does.
3) the leader placement on multiple line, vertical, dimensions, work when pulled outside the extension lines.

Sylvia