inventor <> solidworks

[ma60rco]

Good morning to all:

I have a few questions to ask you:

I am a "free professional "
- you will forgive the pomposity of definition -:smile:
and use inventor for several years
-I'm still on the 2008 release:

I have the possibility to enter as an external collaborator
in a new company that however uses solidworks.

the questions are these:

1)Is there a light version of the program? at what price?
2)if not a full license how much it costs?
3) the two programmes differ substantially
using and managing files?
4) and finally and more important : to vs. judgment how much time
could be necessary to start being productive,
(considering that I will still have to continue using inventor),
and that ahime, having reached 50 I certainly no longer have freshness
of a fresh young man of diploma or degree...:frown:

I deal with mechanical design aimed at industrial automation,
and with this new customer, there should be an important use
of an environment like "Inventor Flag"

thanks to all for patience and attention

Marco.

 

[meccanicamg]

Hello, ma60rco.
then we say that inventor and solidworks are very similar, have similar tools, sheet module dedicated both, there are no welded assemblies but welded multibody parts, and tools for calculating bearings, cams and beams. sin that in swx there are no soft calculation modules, bolts and similar that there are in that panel in inventor.
we say they are two different ways to approach the problem. swx dismantles more but you have a much higher chance of developing non-standard components. inv has a lot of standard material and slightly versatile controls, ideal for the production of std machines. Despite this I use swx to design automation machines and I can't find any problems.

the management of the files is similar, only that you do not have the projects and therefore you are more free unless you use a pdm.

It is true that I am young and that I made a year of swx then one of inv and I learned in 1 week and fully operational 1 month and returned with swx again ... operating in 2 weeks. I previously used in universities other programs such as solidedge and catia and little but very little nx (which I do not find myself).

then let me take 30 days, the ratio between your age and mine does the safety coefficient = 1.85, therefore it will be verified that you will take 56 days, rounded for excess 2 months:biggrin::biggrin:

read version exists the student, should still be on offer on the net but I do not think he can access it from free professional (the subject already dealt in other posts).

different versions exist: that base that does everything, you don't have bolts, static fems and it just seems to me that it cost about 3000 euros. then if you take the professional version (depending on the modules si simulation) you add about 2000 euros.
the top version with top static simulation, fatigue, bump etc. I think it is around 12000 euros. then there is the floworks for fluid and thermal analysis but I do not know what it costs (call 5000/6000 euros as the version that was once separated).

I don't think of anything else, ask and you'll be told. The important thing is that to learn you have to look for the new program to do the same things you did with inv... but differently.

 

[marcof]

then let me take 30 days, the ratio between your age and mine does the safety coefficient = 1.85, therefore it will be verified that you will take 56 days, rounded for excess 2 months:biggrin::biggrin:

Irremediately and irreversibly engineer inside? :tongue:

 

[meccanicamg]

Hehehehehh obviously otherwise I would not be here:biggrin: