Soildworks vs SolidEdge 1

[TAK55]

My friend is an Engineering Manager looking to switch from ACAD 2006 to a Solid modeling package.
He is looking at Solidworks and Solid Edge.

What are your unbiased opinions Solidworks vs. Solid Edge?

 

[Timelord]

boffin5,

I feel your pain! I too am being forced to jump from SW to ProE. Corporate has decided to force uniformity. A state of shock is putting it mildly. I asked for training and was told to pick it up as I go. I know how this will affect my productivity and probably my performance reviews also. I am looking for another job rather than wait and get fired for not producing.

Timelord

 

[Beggar]

Timelord, you could also consider it a valuable opportunity to learn a new skill, one that might someday open some doors that might otherwise remain closed.

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[SGEngineer]

Timelord, you are lucky.
I was using UG for a long time till I converted to Pro/E and was asked to pick it as I went along.

UG -> Pro/E is complete pain as UG emphasize a lot of 2-D and 3-D curves (not so parametric) rather than sketches. And it employs a lot of primitives.

SWX -> Pro/E is not so bad since it's all sketch based creations.

Currently using SWX 2006 SP4.

 

[J-C]

Probably depends on the version of UG. I use NX2 and since I used Solidworks prior to UG, I tend to avoid all the unparametric stuff like curves and primitives. It's not all that different than Swx, sketch, then extrude, revolve, etc. The pain of UG is the often archaic interface and the going around the world to do simple things. Lack of configurations (especially on a product that needs it) doesn't help. Does have excellent equations...something Solidworks is weak in.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

 

[Mech151]

Inventor will not catch up to solidworks until they add configurations, or some other way to handle large assemblies.

Our biggest gripe with SW is that they release buggy software. We never deploy until SP 3 (minimum). I think SW is trying to leave debug to the beta testers.

 

[J-C]

Well, they are really stretching out the 2007 beta longer than usual. Betas in the past usually have gone in 2 week cycles. So far it's been 1 month on just beta 1 and beta 2 looks to be 3-4 weeks. Guess sp0.0 will tell.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2