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SolidWorks 3D CAD Technology Design BlogSiemens PLM Excites Onlookers With ‘New’ 3D CAD Technology; Many Soaked
Started by Josh M · 10 months ago
If you were standing on the corner of the CAD block yesterday, you had obscure CAD terminology splashed all over your new pants. Everyone and their step-uncle’s mom was waxing intellectual about the ‘newest-in-new, right-up-in-your-face- and-hit-you’ CA
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The only thing that i am concerned about is the part when the program is making the decision that some parts will be modified with each other. If this goes wrong it will go very wrong.
And letting a program making design decisions for you is not a good idea.
But i like the 3dsmax/solidworks clone idea.
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And about UGS's NX and SE...see my comment on Matt Write's to his article. :)
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If is was so great, Co-Create would have never been bought and SpaceClaim would be killing everyone in the market. This works for the small guys, but the big guys need so much more. Now as an add-on there may be value, it all depends on how well it integrates with everything else inside of PLM.
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NX5 is/was kewl enuf (just think back,.. version 18 was just around the corner... what a change, really!!) but adding this on top is very attractive and exciting for UGS users!! If I were a NX user, I'd be very excited!
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This is "game changing" technology, and if your so entrenched in your ways then that's fine. Just don't mouth off about anything you have no real understanding of. I only hope this thread is so quiet over the past 10 days is due to reality setting in!
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I agree with you when you say it's “game changing” technology. It's just pathetic to see Synchronous Technology labeled/called "Ho-Hum" technology by those who have no clue and are just covering their own SolidWorks special interests.
I think someone should be asking Mike Payne of SpaceClaim how long it would take to integrate SpaceClaim technology with SolidWorks or Inventor and if the same level or greater of functionality could be obtained that Siemens has shown they have with Solid Edge and NX with Synchronous Technology.
Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
1 year ago
I've been using CAD for over 25 years and I'm very reserved in my enthusiasm for new technologies unless they are smart and intuitive. I'd be the first person to cry foul, if this was just smoke and mirrors. Sure there may be a few bumps in the road early on, but from what I saw first hand, I'm truly impressed. This reminds me of when I moved from wire frame CAD to parametric CAD. It's that refreshing!
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Sorry but I doubt Michaelangelo was asked to explain how he came up with David... nor did he need a history tree to create other great pieces of art and design.
As an Industrial Designer as well, I look at CAD as just another tool in the process. Hand sketches for ideation and CAD for documentation is my principle method for design. Anyone who relies on tools available in CAD for inspiration are limiting their ability to be creative in my opinion.
Why I'm so enthused about ST in Solid Edge, is because for the first time there's a CAD program that now favors creativity versus the documentation side of the process. The History may be helpful in recreating the documentation part of the model, but it certainly has no critical place in the creative development of a design.
If you let your "boss" define your value by your creative solutions simply by the "history tree" in a CAD model, then he/she has no true understanding of design or problem solving.
Furthermore the pinnacle of good design, is simplicity... and unfortunately for the designer it'll always seem obvious once completed. The truth is: "simple is hard" and "complicated is easy"; so therefore forget about validating a good design with a history tree and stop defining your good design by giving credit to the CAD program. Software is only a tool and hopefully ST will be a better one then we have now.
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I am not saying I don't want "ST" - if it is the real thing. If it really works and it comes to a CAD application on a computer near me, I will take it in with vigor and excitement and use it to my fullest advantage. I would enjoy doing swoopy stuff faster. All I'm saying is that the old tree is not a bad thing to have around.
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Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA