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I'm looking for a SE specific forum to continue my SE education. I found a forum on the Siemens site. Is that the best option?

https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/topi ... -edge-user

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:18 pm I'm looking for a SE specific forum to continue my SE education. I found a forum on the Siemens site. Is that the best option?

https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/topi ... -edge-user

You could go to that forum and start posting links to the one here and see how that goes

MJuric wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:34 pm You could go to that forum and start posting links to the one here and see how that goes

Why is that in purple, that's about half of my posts over at the Swamp directing people here. The other half is memes about how bad the platform is...I may be the first person banned from there for such behavior...Here are a few of the memes from today:

Theoretically you should be able to get the same answers here as over on the Siemens SE forum. We have @Imics13 and @TusharSuradkar and @uk_dave and some others, although I don't think they're here all the time. Maybe if we had a steady stream of questions, those guys would hang out more. Hello?

But in the line of a more direct answer to your question, yes, the Siemens SE forum is the best place to get real SE answers that I know of, this side of gtac, or whatever they are called now.

matt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 2:51 pm Theoretically you should be able to get the same answers here as over on the Siemens SE forum. We have @Imics13 and @TusharSuradkar and @uk_dave and some others, although I don't think they're here all the time. Maybe if we had a steady stream of questions, those guys would hang out more. Hello?

But in the line of a more direct answer to your question, yes, the Siemens SE forum is the best place to get real SE answers that I know of, this side of gtac, or whatever they are called now.

This just needs to be posted here again.

It's not about asking questions. It is about seeing what active users are asking about, and/or complaining about. The fact that this is at the top of the list is discouraging.

If you replace SW with SE, it looks like the same program. Here is one of the responses.

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:32 pm It's not about asking questions. It is about seeing what active users are asking about, and/or complaining about. The fact that this is at the top of the list is discouraging.

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We notice a lot more crashing in SW than we had with SE, which still happened enough. I think the difference is we had learned what to avoid in SE, SW is a completely different mine field to blunder about in.

Hi,

Solid Edge is more stable software compare to SW. Yes, sometimes it crashes but it depends on hardware and software environments. There is a main difference look at Jeff's answer. Jeff (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyawalker/) is director of Solid Edge and he is there and try to help... They are listening...

BR,

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:32 pm It's not about asking questions. It is about seeing what active users are asking about, and/or complaining about. The fact that this is at the top of the list is discouraging.

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When we first did evaluation on different CAD systems, searching forums for "crashing", "mad", "bug", etc. was one of the things I researched. My findings were that SE and IV are roughly comparable in disgruntled forum users......and SWX is waaay ahead of them.

For my part, I crashed SE once in about two months. I can't say that about SWX. Also, the list of SE-approved graphics cards is about 2-3 times as long as SWX (at least). My GC is approved for both, and I get weird glitches with SWX but not with SE.

Just my $0.02.

mike miller wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 12:12 pm When we first did evaluation on different CAD systems, searching forums for "crashing", "mad", "bug", etc. was one of the things I researched. My findings were that SE and IV are roughly comparable in disgruntled forum users......and SWX is waaay ahead of them.

For my part, I crashed SE once in about two months. I can't say that about SWX. Also, the list of SE-approved graphics cards is about 2-3 times as long as SWX (at least). My GC is approved for both, and I get weird glitches with SWX but not with SE.

Not defending SolidWorks on this issue, but there are far more users of SolidWorks than SE or IV. Just like there way more disgruntled Toyota Camry owners than Mazda 6 owners, at least by count. We need a % of complaints per 1000 users metric.

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 12:50 pm Not defending SolidWorks on this issue, but there are far more users of SolidWorks than SE or IV. Just like there way more disgruntled Toyota Camry owners than Mazda 6 owners, at least by count. We need a % of complaints per 1000 users metric.

Just curious, how do SE user #s actually compare with SW user #s? Or is this info not disclosed?

Many SW to Not as many SE.

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 12:50 pm Not defending SolidWorks on this issue, but there are far more users of SolidWorks than SE or IV. Just like there way more disgruntled Toyota Camry owners than Mazda 6 owners, at least by count. We need a % of complaints per 1000 users metric.

Here's some stats on the search results of "crashing":

Solid Edge has 160 results:
https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/topic-search

Inventor has 3070 (over a longer time period than the others):
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/forums/s ... q=crashing

Onshape has 273:
https://forum.onshape.com/search?Search=crashing

SWX has 1649 (although I'll never believe it's actually that low. The search tool is atrocious.) :
https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... h:crashing

Rumor on the street says that SWX users to SE are at a 10-1 ratio. According to Siemens, license sales have increased dramatically in the last year. I can't remember the stats they gave.

Do some job searches, although it can be difficult to get accurate numbers, many companies list their cad tool plus SolidWorks since its so wide spread.

Careerbuilder:
SolidWorks: 1800 hits
Solid edge or Solidedge: 80
Inventor: Around 200-300 (Depends on if you search for Inventor 3d or Autodesk Inventor)
NX CAD: 250 (This one is tough because if you just put in NX you get non-CAD jobs, I think there are more than this)
CATIA: 606
Creo: 500
AutoCAD: 6300

mike miller wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:56 pm Here's some stats on the search results of "crashing":

Solid Edge has 160 results:
https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/topic-search

Inventor has 3070 (over a longer time period than the others):
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/forums/s ... q=crashing

Onshape has 273:
https://forum.onshape.com/search?Search=crashing

SWX has 1649 (although I'll never believe it's actually that low. The search tool is atrocious.) :
https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... h:crashing

Rumor on the street says that SWX users to SE are at a 10-1 ratio. According to Siemens, license sales have increased dramatically in the last year. I can't remember the stats they gave.

I searched "crash" which will also pull "crashing".

SE has 500 results, dates back to 2006:
https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/topic-search

IV has 4000, dates back to 2002:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/forums/s ... ssion=true

Onshape has 273, dates back to 2014 (I couldn't sort the results by date so I'm not sure what it is):
https://forum.onshape.com/search?Search=crash

SWX has 5056, dates back to 2006:
https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... arch:crash