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Solid Works compare with MDT

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Anonymous
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Solid Works compare with MDT



style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Sans Serif'">I am a AutoCAD and MDT
user for 10+ years.



style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Sans Serif'">I’ve got trained do
design in Solid Works (SW)  because
here in Michigan



style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Sans Serif'">for some reason its
getting more popular than MDT.



style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Sans Serif'">All Big (are they still
Big?) Tree car producers adopting SW for tooling design.



style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Sans Serif'">After trying SW do real
job I was very disappointed and disgusted by primitiveness and
limitation



style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Sans Serif'">of this
program.



style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Sans Serif'">AK
style="mso-spacerun: yes">  

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Message 21 of 24
cadsysmgr
in reply to: Anonymous

Does anyone other than me find it real strange that Alex hasn't come back into this conversatin ???????????
Message 21 of 24
eb
in reply to: Anonymous

"From what I can see (there's a gif sequence on Mr. Hoberman's site that I couldn't see very well at all) the geometry issues involved in the mechanism might be right up IV's alley."



"Super neat stuff, Erich. If you are truly interested in finding out what IV's capabilities could contribute, you might post to the IV group (Got any better pics that could be posted to CF or links thereto? I'd like to see some justfor curiosity's sake, Ohio is too far.) and see what comes of it."





I've sent some pics to the customer files. As I said, the main issue is not IV's ability to make parts. The part I've shown is not all that complex. The big advantage of MDT is that you can work out the initial geometry with a 3D wireframe, thereby determining the geometry of the local parts. The fact that this is possible in MDT is mainly because the capability is a remnant of the earlier program. It seems to be a feature that was assumed irrelevant or too cumbersome to continue in the new, feature based, parametric programs.
Message 23 of 24
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thank, Erich. I am impressed. That's quite a mechanism.

Jeff
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"eb" wrote in message
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I've sent some pics to the customer files. As I said, the main issue is not
IV's ability to make parts. The part I've shown is not all that complex. The
big advantage of MDT is that you can work out the initial geometry with a 3D
wireframe, thereby determining the geometry of the local parts. The fact that
this is possible in MDT is mainly because the capability is a remnant of the
earlier program. It seems to be a feature that was assumed irrelevant or too
cumbersome to continue in the new, feature based, parametric programs.
Message 23 of 24
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I think Alex just felt a need to express an opinion (somewhat similar to the
ones that get expressed on the SW ng ??) ....

I thought the original post was of little interest (at present one mid range
cad sys = another, but, like gloves, some fit and some don't and the only
thing there is to really tip the scales is marketing strategy), however it did
seed a pretty interesting discussion. ??

J
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"cadsysmgr" wrote in message
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Does anyone other than me find it real strange that Alex hasn't come back into
this conversatin ???????????

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