t-flex 16 vs solidworks

[Yaroooo]

Good morning.

I read some comparisons between t-flex and solidworks, post of 2009 approximately. I would therefore ask if with t-flex 16 things are improved and comparable almost to solidworks.

Currently we have a tflex license on which the company has worked for several years. I also press that the use we make in the company is very basic, simple mechanical assemblies, therefore distinct base and drawings for machining and there is no goal to move to more complex designs.

from a personal assessment (very basic), the interface and method of use of the program are a copy of solidworks.

Currently, a bit spurred by several solidworks resellers and a bit by the need for new licenses, we would like to assess whether to switch from t-flex to solidworks.

there are two important factors:
- the backlog of the company, which would remain on the old program and must be migrated;
- the learning curve, very steep as similar programs, but which represent a cost;
- the cost of a license, double (if not mistaken also VAT excluded).

solidworks sellers do not even consider tflex a competitor, but they do not even provide us with decisive motivations in addition to the usual:
- features (almost all unused);
- basic tutorials (not necessary for us);
- solidity of the program and the company (can be interesting, but also tflex has supported us for 10 years);

adding hidden costs to the cost of the license, the price becomes really important especially for multiple licenses. So my question is, for a near and far future, what are your views on these two products?

We wouldn't want to fall into the trap of having "more modern and supported iPhone" just to look up and use it only for calls.

 

[stevie]

the main difference for what you do you will see in the cost of the license, the triple so to the eye and cross.. .
in the end unless you work directly with customers with whom you have an ingent exchange of solidworks files (the conversions between files of different cads do not work, or in any case not in a useful way, and do not believe to those who tell you that you can automatically convert models from another cad, are bales) you should stay with what you have.
The idea that I made myself is that these "second-end cads" are equivalent, as to functions, to the cad blasonati 5-10 years ago.
the problem is that 99% of the functions introduced in the last 10 years are practically useless, if not even worsening!! !

 

[Yaroooo]

That's exactly what came afloat in our reasoning. Thank you for your opinion. if others want to express (also part) their opinion is well liked.

 

[Meteor02]

I would not change if not necessary, I know who still works egregiamente with solidworks 2010. Why spend money on something useless without needing it? change often also means upgrading the hardware (have you seen the resources needed for solid 2019?). I don't know which graphic engine uses tflex but you can try to export the files to parasolid and see how they are imported from solidworks but still the passage of the old files will not be painless. and anyway before deciding facts give a trial version and carefully evaluate the pros and cons in 90 days you can make a pretty clear idea.

 

[stevie]

from what you read here
http://www.tflex.com/faq/ is based on parasolid, such as solidedge and solidworks.

As for commercials... well their work is selling and hardly give objective opinions.
It makes me laugh at the concept of "solidity of the program and the company"...as if a cad was a machine that breaks and there are no more spare parts. .
a cad is a software that when it is placed on the market must (or should) be tested and guaranteed 100% of the operation, not that then it takes 10 updates to fix all the bugs that are in it...

 

[meccanicamg]

all cad programs have their own against. some look like each other and are more intuitive, others are more ostic and have more complicated procedures to accomplish the same thing.

update t-flex all the latest releases could bring benefits within the company, and you might also think of doing refresher courses for people.

introducing solidworks could certainly be a new way to design and manage the product but it should be done if you are going to insert a sufficient number of new people in the technical office.

it seems to me to understand that your reality, in order to be able to work correctly without "putting money at 360 degrees" is rather to update to the current version and not to insert new software to manage, maintain and learn. . In addition to the direct cost not little account. Moreover the conversion of files is always a little functional menata unless it migris the whole historian....but it takes time and money.

It would make sense if you were first all 2d and wanted to move to 3d.