richardfoodindustrie
Mechanical
- Dec 26, 2006
- 20
Being a long time Solidworks user since 95 I have
come to dislike the userinterface more and
more every release.
The reason is the forced use of property managers
for almost every command which was not necessairy
in older releases. The problem is that with the
property managers the userinterface area is restricted
to the window size. This makes you scroll and windows
maximize all the time only to see your commands when
working with multiple windows. Useless to say that
most commands need in this case additional steps.
Only Solidworks has this problem I found so far. It is
dissappointing to see Solidworks who was about the first Windows cad modeller now has a userinterface that is so
inefficient when working with multiple windows, something
Windows was designed for. Only Solidworks needs all these
additional steps like scroll or windows maximize only to see
your command. That's why I think Solidworks has gradually
changed into scrollworks. In older release I had shortkey programs like Aimkeys that did most of the commands in one or two keystrokes where I now need the propertymanagers, scrollwork and windows maximize/minimize to do the same in about 2-5 times more mouseclicks and about 10 times more mousemovements.
The property managers are useless when trying automate with programs like Aimkeys. The property managers just force you all the time to go into the tree area which causes unnecessairy mousemovements by design.
I want all my commands and input boxes on the place where my mouse is just to prevent unnecessairy interaction. I am now on SW2005, tried 2006 but found that a lot of propertymanager pickboxes are now 2x2 mm on 1600x1200 where in 2005 you could pick in much bigger (>5 times)
areas to activate the command. Small pick areas cause precise mousemovements and Solidworks has a lot of unnecessairy precise mousemovements like SW2006 in
the propertymanager but also especially when selecting and object relation snap which never has really improved in the last 10 years. Especially on higher resolution Solidworks doesn't have tools to change the accuracy in selection and object relation snap which other cad programs have.
Precise mousemovements can cause RSI problems.
Another thing is that often used commands in the property manager trees are lower in the window causing more scrolling and windows maximize/minimize.
I have come to the conclusion that Solidworks is just getting harder to use every release and harder to optimize every release.
I wonder if Pro/E Wildfire3 doesn't use propertymanagers and doesn't have the limitations I find in Solidworks when working with multiple windows. Does anybody know if it is easy to customize Wildfire 3 with shortcuts? In general I read positive comments on large assembly performance in Pro/E. We design machines for foodindustries with a lot of sheetmetal, laser cutting parts, tubes, shafts and standard machine parts with assemblies from 500-10000 parts. Thanks for your comments.
Richard
come to dislike the userinterface more and
more every release.
The reason is the forced use of property managers
for almost every command which was not necessairy
in older releases. The problem is that with the
property managers the userinterface area is restricted
to the window size. This makes you scroll and windows
maximize all the time only to see your commands when
working with multiple windows. Useless to say that
most commands need in this case additional steps.
Only Solidworks has this problem I found so far. It is
dissappointing to see Solidworks who was about the first Windows cad modeller now has a userinterface that is so
inefficient when working with multiple windows, something
Windows was designed for. Only Solidworks needs all these
additional steps like scroll or windows maximize only to see
your command. That's why I think Solidworks has gradually
changed into scrollworks. In older release I had shortkey programs like Aimkeys that did most of the commands in one or two keystrokes where I now need the propertymanagers, scrollwork and windows maximize/minimize to do the same in about 2-5 times more mouseclicks and about 10 times more mousemovements.
The property managers are useless when trying automate with programs like Aimkeys. The property managers just force you all the time to go into the tree area which causes unnecessairy mousemovements by design.
I want all my commands and input boxes on the place where my mouse is just to prevent unnecessairy interaction. I am now on SW2005, tried 2006 but found that a lot of propertymanager pickboxes are now 2x2 mm on 1600x1200 where in 2005 you could pick in much bigger (>5 times)
areas to activate the command. Small pick areas cause precise mousemovements and Solidworks has a lot of unnecessairy precise mousemovements like SW2006 in
the propertymanager but also especially when selecting and object relation snap which never has really improved in the last 10 years. Especially on higher resolution Solidworks doesn't have tools to change the accuracy in selection and object relation snap which other cad programs have.
Precise mousemovements can cause RSI problems.
Another thing is that often used commands in the property manager trees are lower in the window causing more scrolling and windows maximize/minimize.
I have come to the conclusion that Solidworks is just getting harder to use every release and harder to optimize every release.
I wonder if Pro/E Wildfire3 doesn't use propertymanagers and doesn't have the limitations I find in Solidworks when working with multiple windows. Does anybody know if it is easy to customize Wildfire 3 with shortcuts? In general I read positive comments on large assembly performance in Pro/E. We design machines for foodindustries with a lot of sheetmetal, laser cutting parts, tubes, shafts and standard machine parts with assemblies from 500-10000 parts. Thanks for your comments.
Richard
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