software dissemination cad - "pre" survey

[Matteo]

while having a certain attendance of the commercial world cad (we work as consultants pre/post sale for spaceclaim), I am embarrassed in choosing a software based on diffusion, so as to "follow" customer orientation for what concerns the design activity.



some considerations:

1. the choice of cad is often regional (also in relation to the rooting of historical retailers)
2. the choice of cad is very sectoral (e.g. automotive, aerospace, moulders, ... )
3. the choice of large companies

That said, I thought I would propose a survey on the spread of cad systems, I ask you here to indicate me product names to include in the following list that I may have forgotten by distraction or ignorance: we only talk about cad for mechanical design.last consideration: the topic of discussion is not what is the best cad, but what is the spread in terms of installed posts (regular, but it would be interesting to assess even those not regular) regardless of the reasons that have determined it.

 

[Matteo]

provisional list:

no cad
any cad 2d (no 3d in the company)
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one space designer
solidworks
solidedge
spaceclaim
No.
Cat
inventor

 

[cacciatorino]

I would add thinkdesign, which is located every now and then (heredita' of gbg).

p.s. perhaps the cads for moldists should be added, type visi or vertetron, but on this they are not very addentro.

 

[DoMike]

Hi.

the cad visi should be added. there are several 'bundles' produced by software companies that have collaborated/cooperate with the truth.

not only moldists therefore but also carpenters. ..lamiera and removal.

 

[Matteo]

Hi.

the cad visi should be added. there are several 'bundles' produced by software companies that have collaborated/cooperate with the truth.

not only moldists therefore but also carpenters. ..lamiera and removal.

Yes, it is true, although I was born as a software for moulders, I saw it installed in other contexts.

 

[Matteo]

provisional list:

• Libre
• Cat
• inventor
• nx
• one space designer - direct creations
• proe - Creo elements proe
• rhinoceros
• solidedge - solid edge st
• solidworks
• spaceclaim
• thinkdesign
• Home
• _____nessun cad
• ______a any cad 2d (no 3d in company)

 

[AntonioV]

How about autocad mechanical, matteo?

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[Matteo]

How about autocad mechanical, matteo?

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I do not know the autodesk world, but the impression is that it is a version of autocad oriented to mechanics (so a 2d with 3d functionality more than a 3d type "inventor"): or is it wrong?

 

[Tequila]

... last consideration: the topic of discussion is not what is the best cad, but what is the spread in terms of installed posts (regular, but it would be interesting to assess even those not regular) regardless of the reasons that have determined it.

here it is a little difficult to pull the amount of places installed, because if you hear the dealers tell you that their product is the most sold and used in the area and not. I speak for solid edge and solidworks, which at the time during the demo of both cads were these words that were heard.
if you look at the dealer sites some put the amount of installations (so licenses sold), but you do not know if they are up-to-date and/or true.
from the cad3d forum you could also draw a list based on which product you mention in the profile, but also here you have to see, because on some profiles there are those who put 4,5 different cad, who due to change work, who instead pee who knows what! !

3. the choice of large companies

here also depends on the type of companies. we that in addition to producing our machinery we do heavy carpentry processing c/or third, the drawings that pass through my office are of different cads (both 2d and 3d), from the classic autocad for the 2d, then see drawings made with pro/e, inventor, solidworks, the same solid edge that I use.

 

[Matteo]

here it is a little difficult to pull the amount of places installed, because if you hear the dealers tell you that their product is the most sold and used in the area and not. I speak for solid edge and solidworks, which at the time during the demo of both cads were these words that were heard.
if you look at the dealer sites some put the amount of installations (so licenses sold), but you do not know if they are up-to-date and/or true.
from the cad3d forum you could also draw a list based on which product you mention in the profile, but also here you have to see, because on some profiles there are those who put 4,5 different cad, who due to change work, who instead pee who knows what! !

Yes, I agree it's quite arduous business, but the intention is to have an idea. among other things you will not be able to use the forum survey tool because the answers should be "cad/sector/region for example".

 

[Matteo]

provisional list, added omnicad:

• Libre
• Cat
• inventor
• nx
• omnicad
• one space designer - direct creations
• proe - Creo elements proe
• rhinoceros
• solidedge - solid edge st
• solidworks
• spaceclaim
• thinkdesign
• Home
• _____nessun cad
• ______a any cad 2d (no 3d in company)

 

[MBT]

Yes, I agree it's quite arduous business, but the intention is to have an idea. among other things you will not be able to use the forum survey tool because the answers should be "cad/sector/region for example".

and if the answer is "I installed it but I don't use it!"?? ? ?
quite frequent case, I think.

 

[Tequila]

and if the answer is "I installed it but I don't use it!"?? ? ?
quite frequent case, I think.

ot: as a colleague does in the workshop on the home computer, anything he feels around (talk of application programs etc.) he must install it even if he does not need anything and even if he does not have the license (for which the program does not leave).
I've never seen a slow pc like her charging and I don't even know how to charge. from start the program folder creates 3 columns! ! !

 

[Matteo]

and if the answer is "I installed it but I don't use it!"?? ? ?
quite frequent case, I think.

I hope it is not so frequent, however my interest in the diffusion is as a supplier of design services, not of commercial-software (so sc is transversal) so "I do not use it" I would say to make it count as "not installed" (wanting to reason for posts).

 

[RS4]

provisional list, added omnicad:

• Libre
• Cat
• inventor
• nx
• omnicad
• one space designer - direct creations
• proe - Creo elements proe
• rhinoceros
• solidedge - solid edge st
• solidworks
• spaceclaim
• thinkdesign
• Home
• _____nessun cad
• ______a any cad 2d (no 3d in company)

Hello Matteo

I'd say I'd have a cat.

catia v4 and catia v5 that are two totally different software and also as use

Hi.

♪

 

[Matteo]

Hello Matteo

I'd say I'd have a cat.

catia v4 and catia v5 that are two totally different software and also as use

Hi.

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Yes, perhaps it is better to distinguish:

alibre
Catch v4
Catch v5
inventor
No.
omnicad
one space designer - creo elements direct
proe - creo elements proe
rhinoceros
solidedge - solidedge st
solidworks
spaceclaim
thinkdesign
Visi
_
______a any cad 2d (no 3d in company)

 

[numero1]

I do not know the autodesk world, but the impression is that it is a version of autocad oriented to mechanics (so a 2d with 3d functionality more than a 3d type "inventor"): or is it wrong?

It's true, but up to a certain version.
by means of:
autocad
autocad mechanical desktop 2007inventor

in practice was born autocad and then the mec from which it borrowed inv, but until the 2007 version the mechanical desktop had (practically) the simplicity of car and the power of inv.
it was able to parameterize everything or almost everything in fact possessed the selection tree as inv., usually left.
from there you could have selected the various pieces of the solid you were building, as if they were so many ipts.
Now nofrom 2008 onwards it is as you say, the special features that made it cool were only gone to inventor.
in fact, if I am not mistaken autocad mechanical today is called only so and not + autocad mechanical desktop.

Moreover if we talk about popular sw not to forget microstation, which in my opinion came very early in 3d autocad.
sure is a general sw, as pure autocad, not voted on mechanics if not behind special plugs.
However here in Liguria has a strong diffusion as it is one of the sw + widespread (if not the + widespread) in the naval field.
Hi.