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Ry-guy

Sometimes, I wonder if you ever concider the fact that you're speaking with people that most likely already had to transition from one thing(AutoCAD for instance) to another(SolidWorks)..... Of course doing a transition isn't a simple task but there are ways to make things a lot more simple and a l...

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bnemec wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 10:57 am This is a new twist on "putting all of your eggs in one basket".

No thanks.

Boy, oh boy..you better have a talk with Microsoft, Adobe, SAP to some extent, Salesforce, etc. They are all based on the same business platform strategy!

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:10 am We haven't heard from Ryan3ds lately. He must have figured out convincing us "the platform" wasn't a dumpster fire was a waste of time.

Nope just on holiday!

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IT'S AN PLATFORM!!!!!! NOT A WEBSITE!!!!! A very complex one working very fast in the background. It is not slow, you are. I love you guys. I really do! Yes, the SW portal systems are moving to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. To be honest this should have happened many years ago. Yes, it is complicated ...

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lol, wonder what @Ry-guy will say of this one. "Things are a lot more complicated then they seem, this is a platform". Really enjoy seeing him struggle to explain why things need to be complicated rather then simple. Sorry about the delay...I was on holiday with my college-aged kids. Some...

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Bradfordzzz wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 8:55 am Garfield will have to come thru for us.

Garfield likes Italian food (lasagna) not French!

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The incestuous world of CAD. <()> https://www.engineering.com/story/modeling-still-hard-lets-patch-things-up-says-cad-vet Can someone pull this posting into its own thread? There is a lot to discuss about this tool! Reminds me of the old days of using UG (pre-NX for those under 25 years old) with c...

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Hey all, I take care of training current/new employees and the way we do it currently is that I take a group of people, seclude and train them on the subject at hand, for instance, reading drawings. It's something I have to do every few months and my boss would like to avoid having to repeat this o...

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So that justify the requirement of reading a book before using the "platform"? Which even DS support and employee have difficulty explaining to customer how this "platform" work. Most don't need "instructions" to use OneDrive, Google Drive. Most don't even know or care...

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I mean... the customer portal is/was always a very unintuitive, messed up place with huge performance issues where you were barely able to find anything (even the re-sellers didn't know what to do). Then 3DX came around and you finally started appreciating the customer portal because it was less co...

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I was just in there a couple days ago. Tried this morning in response to https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=2416 and it's gone. Almost no functionality in my default browser Edge Dev. image.png Never mind, must have been a bad link. The link I have bookmarked still takes me to customerportal....

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Being in wave 2 it's clear that all the bugs and issues have been removed Which is why the email was send to our head of IT (who doesn't work with any 3DS product) and make him security admin. No matter that he can't log in, can't reset his password because no matter where he looks he just doesn't ...

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So that justify the requirement of reading a book before using the "platform"? Which even DS support and employee have difficulty explaining to customer how this "platform" work. Most don't need "instructions" to use OneDrive, Google Drive. Most don't even know or care...

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They were all modelled with SolidWorks. But, after being burned by 3DX, we are evaluating Onshape. Surfacing, while looking simple, is surprisingly powerful. We'll try to model a hull soon. 3DX is the platform. What on the platform "burned" you? Just curious. Were you using SolidWorks Con...

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Waving from the other side of the fence. Wonder how they justify a website that need a book to explain how to use it. Disruptive, it is. You are not logging into a website! You are logging into a huge platform via a url address. And then being directed to an application. Big difference. About the s...

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I'm just teasing ya mate. I'll have a beer over Champagne, but that must be the Canadian side taking over my french side :lol: I know. I appreciate the zings too. It keeps me honest. The drink champagne lines come as a rebuttal to Siemens' "we eat our own dog food" comment- (we use our ow...

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I don't think it was a poor question. If you're aware of a shortcoming in Onshape's integration of pdm, plm, erp, mes, mom, etc, why don't you say so? Maybe 3DEXPERIENCE has a list of features covering 100% of the users cases, but we found that it is very time-consuming, very "user-unfriendly&...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:24 am Ry-guy drank a bit too much of the DS Kool-Aid, forgive him.

Nope. Just looking at things from a different point of view. If you knew my history I was a big Siemens NX and SE fanboy. Since I work for a French company...we don't drink Kool-Aid...we drink champagne!

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I will see if I can find an article that explains what a unified data model looks like and how they work. I feel that might help everyone understand the difference between file-based software and db-based software. Once you get an understanding of this I feel people will begin to understand the ben...

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I was advocating for "open" file data to prevent total lock-in to a software vendor without having to rely on a 3rd party reverse-engineered application. The same should go for DBs and the concern with "SaaS" tools is it's even more closed. Or are you saying that Dassault's plat...

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...So for example, a SolidWorks part file should contain the features, every feature option, comments, properties, etc. readable. I will have to kindly disagree with the last statement. You are truly locking and limiting your data capabilities by allowing Solidworks to determine what makes up a SW ...

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Are you saying Dassault will allow us access to the DB data that makes up models created on 3dxWorks? If I elect to move away from 3dx, I can export all of that feature data of my parts and assemblies? I'm not sure about the file size reduction.....why would it be smaller? The SolidWorks sldprt fil...

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Besides the obligation to have everything on the cloud (a plus for us), less potential employees familiar with Onshape (both from the market and from schools), what are Onshape's downsides? I've used it for two weeks now and I found nothing stopping us from migrating to it. There's some features th...

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That's part of "the thing" with Onshape, you don't download models. So you'll never have 3rd party libraries. Any Onshape data exists on their server. They don't have a "file type". It's all bits and pieces in a database. You can save stuff out as neutral formats, but live Onsha...

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I highly recommend that you look at Vertex Visualization. If the US Dept of Defense can use it your management probably won't have an issue either! They have some cool technology, and it is very, very secure and your CAD data never leaves your servers! https://vertexvis.com/resources/collateral/keep...

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It could be used as the design position tool. If you work auto or aero you may have a predetermined global csys and you design in the context of that csys. This allows parent/owner company to drop all components into their assy using 0,0,0. No mating conditions. This does require you to build your p...

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Wow, I can't actually figure out what could be the root cause of this, that's something. I don't understand how the middle part of a name would have an incidence on a function. Have you shared that with your VAR? Please let us know the follow-up, I'm quite intrigued. Is it actually the numbers that...

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The obvious answer is that the files may be an older verion of SW and when opened the "internals" of the file are updated to reflect any added data into the newer version part files.

But, as you have found, there are many, many different causes!

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You have been presented several good options but before I answer I'd like to have answer first.

How is the part managed and recorded in your CAD BOM, manufacturing BOM or shop floor? This answer should really drive how you manage your part in the other systems.

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There are many reasons not to use color in legal engineering documentation. Let's just cover a few quickly. 1. Color blindness- Statistics show 1-12 male humans have a form of color blindness. With a heavy male dominated industry color blindness is an even higher ratio.- Someone can miss content on ...

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Back in the 90's my autocad prints had color. I still think it makes it easier to read. Then I spent 20 years at a company that did only black and white. I always assumed that was driven by a standard, so that's what I've adopted here, although shaded views are in color. 20 years ago, color printin...

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Hate to ask...but did you restart your SW?

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Interesting, thanks for the recommendation. In the end we used the animations that I made. The e-drawings app still have some limitations, it doesn't import the animations, and the windows software wont allow to rotate the camera while it's playing. tbh using an ipad/tablet is just a way to look fo...

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Great overview of Sub-D. Sure wish we had these tool sets when I was doing product design for floor cleaning equipment. The exterior rotational molded parts and water tanks that need to fit in old shape spaces.

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Interesting thread, but not that accurate. Firstly, Bentley Microstation is an industry leader in certain sectors, especially very large scale infrastructure projects. Autodesk and Bentley did a deal many years ago to allow native file format exchange. So Microstation opens dwgs and AutoCAD opens d...

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:50 pm ..ah, 1985,.. those where the days when pricing was so... reasonable?

Yeah, and the hardware to run that software was $60-75,000 at the time! Could you image the cost of CAD these days if hardware stayed at those prices!

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 11:29 am I know....if it wasn't so damn expensive.

Stop it..just go with a subscription! Then you get to move your "expenses" around in the accounting books.

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What's with the fascination of naming products "X" something? Is it because X is underused in words? Obsession with the X-Men comics? X-rated movie aficionados? Dassaults xApps (xDesign, xShape, xGenerative Design) Lowercase x SolidWorks (DimXpert, DraftXpert, FeatureXpert, FilletXpert, M...

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As time goes on, much of the data we generate is being used throughout other enterprise systems and even moved to the web. You may find out that all your descriptions and part numbers and such is also being dumped into "data lakes" for even more data analysis and reuse. I highly recommend ...

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If you are a SW user, this really sounds like a DriveWorks solution. You can have a configuration sheet upfront indicate sizes and build from the values. You can also save the DW configuration and rerun in the future. I recall using DW to also calculate scrap, matl costs and weight. These calculatio...

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There is a very old tool in NX called Feature Playback- as I recall it might be called just "Replay" now. It sounds like its name. It's a player control that allows you to step through or forward to or rewind to specific features to understand how the model was built. The nice thing about ...

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If you are looking for a simple tool for collaboration that allows you to load extremely large assemblies of any CAD tools in a browser look up Vertex Visualization tools. A killer tool and you are not exposing any IP to anyone, and your CAD data never leaves your premise.

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Drop downs would be a nice place to start. SE has the option (that's off by default for some reason) to stick with the last selected drop-down option across the UI. SW has this half implemented, depending on which toolbar you're using. What would be kinda neat is if it would just keep the most used...

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Gesture is hold the right click and move the mouse. In IV the same menu popup right click. So user can use it like popup menu. It's context sensitive. So different menu with relevant commands popup. Similar to the "S" menu in SW. It take some time to get used to and customize it. First pu...

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I have read a lot of bad comments on these forms and reddit about the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. I want to know if anyone recommends is subscription product of $99/year if you were in my shoes. I am also thinking of paying for 1 month ($10) check it out and see if it is as hard to use as people say. Ba...

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In PDM, and it's a bit of a mess. Getting all the SE files remodeled in SW, one bad example is users will let the new SW file be saved as a serial number instead of matching the filename to the existing SE files for that part. We tried translation, 99% failure, in the process of remodeling them all...

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Your survey is going to show you how many people are using a PLM or PDM system vs those that are not. You drawing is considered your legal document which it truly is..or is it? Not the CAD drawing file but the pdf is the legal document! So if you are a digital (not digitized) organization you have a...

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Use the right tools for the right job. You might want to look at Siemens Process Simulate tool. This is used for things like virtual commissioning of assy lines. If you are relying on heavy weight CAD data and assy constraints you are going to have a very, very hard time. The Siemens tools also use...

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Use the right tools for the right job. You might want to look at Siemens Process Simulate tool. This is used for things like virtual commissioning of assy lines. If you are relying on heavy weight CAD data and assy constraints you are going to have a very, very hard time. The Siemens tools also uses...

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Thank you for the answers. One problem a little different: this one does not has a pattern and was done with Face Curves and Sweeps (with Circular Profile). Is there a way to get all the diameters values from the Sweeps and attach to a sheet or something so I could change them together? Instead of ...

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