How many seats at your office? 1

[wes616]

Was just wondering how many seats your company has. I had been under the impression that companies buy SWx in the at least 10's of seats if not 100's, but I found out today, that doesn't seem to be the "norm" in my (new) area.

Here are my stats

Aerospace Company / 45 Engineers / 28 Seats of SWx / about 20% utilized.

Previous Employer

Aerospace Company / 115 Engineers / 100 Seats of SWx / About 80% utilized.

Before That

Aerospace Company / 100's of engineers / 100's of CATIA seats / utilization unknown.

And one more

Aerospace Company / 5 Engineers / 1 Seat of SWx / 400% utilization (if you know what i mean)...

Feel free to share ;-)

Wes C.
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When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions...

 

[rockguy]

Current Company
3 seats 100% utilized

Previous Company
1 seat 100% utilized

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group

http://www.robrodriguez.com

(updated 2/22/06)
SW 2006 SP 3.0

 

[ctopher]

Current company: Aerospace
Don't know how many seats (classified)
But heard is slowly growing in seats
Previous company: Aerospace
13 seats, 19 users, 50% utilized

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

 

[Theophilus]

One seat, one industrial designer (with alter-ego engineer), 100% utilized (does that make 200%).

Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.

 

[GBor]

Are both egos schizophrenic? If so, it sounds like 400%!

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

One seat, one designer, 80% SW, 20% Eng-Tips.


Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091

 

[MadMango]

19 seats, 19 people.



[green]"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."[/green]
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
Have you read faq731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?

 

[berkshire]

I have been told by my manager that 20% of my time on eng tips is 20% not doing work.
B.E.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Your manager is correct ... but short sighted. The value of information learned from Eng-Tips often cannot be measured by simple hourly cost.


Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091

 

[cadman1997]

I agree with CBL. The information that I have learned from Eng-Tips could not be put into a hourly cost. I learned things that where not mentioned in Training courses and hear of problems that happen sometimes before they happen to me thus, saving me valuable time to solve them.

Cheers,

Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
P4, 2.53Ghz
1.5 Gb RAM
ATI Fire GL8800 Card
Windows 2000 Pro

 

[progdie]

1 seat of SW 100% used 1 Project Engineer/designer. Best tool that ever happened to this company.
Eng-Tips site blocked at work, what a waste. I still keep up with what is posted one way or the other. Very worthwhile.
Chuck
SW 2006 SP 2

 

[Nella95]

6 seats of SolidWorks. 1 doigle (dongle) for COSMOS, which 3 of us share.

 

[bloodclot]

4 seats, 4 Engineers
(2 @ 100%, and 2 @ 0.00%)

I even dream in Configurations.....

Config 1 - Brunette
Config 2 - Redhead
Config 3 - Blonde

 

[wgchere]

Current company/turbine controls
12 seats: 7 ME's (100%), 4 drafters (1@95%/1@50%/1@25%/Checker@10%)(a lot of Acad legacy), 1 supervisor (occasional)

Last Company:
120 seats, probably 85%@ 100% utilization. A mix of Doc Control/ME's/Design drafters/mfg drafters/Mfg Engnrs. Since it took a three day weekend with all three IT guys and4 guys from our VAR to load new version of SW we always got the version when it closed out the serviice packs and went ot a new version. That way IT didn't have to constantly load new SP's. Of course, this was easier for IT, but it meant that most of the problems we had in, say SW2004, were answered by, "That was fixed in the 2005 version."

 

[EngJW]

Only one seat for our entire engineering department: one engineer (95%) and one designer who refuses to learn it. I think my own productivity took a hugh jump when I moved away from Autocad. That's how I found time to look through all these threads.

 

[Jabberwocky]

We have three seats and four engineers - utilization %100 + %100 + %50 + %50 = %300, so we're legal, right?

 

[Heckler]

2 Mechanical Enginers, 3 Designers & 1 Mold maker / 7 Seats / 45% Utilized

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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_`\(,_
(_)/ (_)

 

[yanceman]

4 full time users (100% each from 3 drafters and an engineer) with 3 network licenses shared among about 6 users (each network license = 50% used).

Last job 6 AutoCAD seats used 100% by all.

I agree with CBL, this forum is an invaluable resource that cannot be viewed in dollars and cents (or pounds). It has helped me a great deal.

Yanceman
(If my Solidworks crashes in an empty office and there is no I.T. person to hear it, will I still emit a scream of frustration?)