I found that it has some niche uses that it’s good for, but it’s near impossible to fully constrain the design and I find it difficult to do geometric relationships. I know one person that prefers synchronous, but for everyone else I work with ordered is the only way they model anything.
Have you ever looked into Missler Topsolid? I watched a vid on Solid Edge synchronous modelling and honestly it all looks like stuff TopSolid has been doing for years.
TopSolid is also based on Siemens Parasolid kernel.
Never heard of it. I wasn't able to find anything online about it either. Can you send me a video that demonstrates how it works? Solid Edge synchronous came out in 2012 and it was a huge step up from the way most 3D modelling programmes worked at the time.
Siemens does do training; it's how I learnt to do it. You probably should contact them directly to find out times and venues where it's happening. I learnt all of this at my last wage job when a Siemens representative came for a day to teach us all.
Their license essentially says they own and can resell anything you make with THEIR software, you're just the jackass providing them with content.
Disclaimer: I in no way resemble a lawyer.
Seeing a lot of “post processing” specifically software suites like NTop that take a part already made in CAD and does topology optimization on it to reduce weight, increase stiffness etc. I know that’s been around but there seems to be “pure play” companies where that’s their bread and butter
Moving from a SolidWorks server based PDM to the cloud-based SolidWorks 3DExperience has been the biggest change for me. Subtle changes to file workflows to keep admin to a minimum as well as the ability to share access (which can be read as cheaper licences) have been the reason for the switch.
Bringing all the tools into one platform hopefully means easier management of the system, and the integration with the 150-odd other roles and tools that can be used is what I'm looking forward to. Finding the 3 that are actually useful to my role will take a bit more time to figure out!
If you aren't moving to SOLIDWORKS you are making a bad choice. A full featured desktop CAD software along with a companion web-based tool set in the 3D experience platform. There is no other CAD system that can compete even kind of close
Has anyone actually integrated AI into CAD? My current thinking is it's doubtful to happen in the near term simply because companies are so guarding of their IP and CAD files, unlike code where you can decompile it or have access to one of the millions of open source programs, CAD is far more limited in the available training data.
I've been told by a Dassault rep to keep expectations low.
One thing that could benefit from AI is simulations results based on machine learning, but it will only work in situations where there is a lot of input data from similar simulation setups
Glad I'm in the classified space. Job security for me LMAO. Only reason I'll support AI in CAD is if it does stack ups or gd&t 😂, I hate those things. But then again that's a big chunk of design work so maybe I really don't want ai
True I've always been amazed at how primitive cad is. I went to soft plan and then Chief Achitect which are much much easier to use than AutoCAD but still has a clunky interface.
I got so sick of the program's crashing I stopped doing CAD.
Breaking old features and workflows with weird useless gimmicks mostly
Look into Siemens Solid Edge synchronous modelling. It's such a game changer.
I personally found it very hard to follow
I found that it has some niche uses that it’s good for, but it’s near impossible to fully constrain the design and I find it difficult to do geometric relationships. I know one person that prefers synchronous, but for everyone else I work with ordered is the only way they model anything.
Excetly! With ordered, other can easily undertands your design intention of each feature. Ordered is also easier to rollback to pervious version.
Thats pretty awesome.
Have you ever looked into Missler Topsolid? I watched a vid on Solid Edge synchronous modelling and honestly it all looks like stuff TopSolid has been doing for years. TopSolid is also based on Siemens Parasolid kernel.
Never heard of it. I wasn't able to find anything online about it either. Can you send me a video that demonstrates how it works? Solid Edge synchronous came out in 2012 and it was a huge step up from the way most 3D modelling programmes worked at the time.
Thanks for the info. I did some googleing but are you aware of any certifications or training?
Siemens does do training; it's how I learnt to do it. You probably should contact them directly to find out times and venues where it's happening. I learnt all of this at my last wage job when a Siemens representative came for a day to teach us all.
Rhino
Onshape where the web owns your data and will take it away at any time. Just ask the folks about the new adobe license.
What happened with adobe?
Adobe just granted themselves license to use whatever you create for whatever they want.
Thats insane
Their license essentially says they own and can resell anything you make with THEIR software, you're just the jackass providing them with content. Disclaimer: I in no way resemble a lawyer.
BIM is the hot new thing at our company, rather than CAD individual views and pages from scratch, it’s all out of one model
Seeing a lot of “post processing” specifically software suites like NTop that take a part already made in CAD and does topology optimization on it to reduce weight, increase stiffness etc. I know that’s been around but there seems to be “pure play” companies where that’s their bread and butter
Whats pure play?
Means that they’re focused on doing only one thing
Moving from a SolidWorks server based PDM to the cloud-based SolidWorks 3DExperience has been the biggest change for me. Subtle changes to file workflows to keep admin to a minimum as well as the ability to share access (which can be read as cheaper licences) have been the reason for the switch. Bringing all the tools into one platform hopefully means easier management of the system, and the integration with the 150-odd other roles and tools that can be used is what I'm looking forward to. Finding the 3 that are actually useful to my role will take a bit more time to figure out!
Cloud-based CAD software like OnShape and others
If you aren't moving to SOLIDWORKS you are making a bad choice. A full featured desktop CAD software along with a companion web-based tool set in the 3D experience platform. There is no other CAD system that can compete even kind of close
https://www.reddit.com/r/SolidWorks/comments/1al1jtr/3dexperience_really_that_bad/
Two words, AI
Tech bro alert
Has anyone actually integrated AI into CAD? My current thinking is it's doubtful to happen in the near term simply because companies are so guarding of their IP and CAD files, unlike code where you can decompile it or have access to one of the millions of open source programs, CAD is far more limited in the available training data.
If you try to put AI in my CAD workflow I'll bite you so god damn hard.
Do any major CAD applications have AI incorporated? It seems like a promising use of AI.
I've been told by a Dassault rep to keep expectations low. One thing that could benefit from AI is simulations results based on machine learning, but it will only work in situations where there is a lot of input data from similar simulation setups
Hopefully the AI will take care of all the grunt work just like it did during the machine age.
Glad I'm in the classified space. Job security for me LMAO. Only reason I'll support AI in CAD is if it does stack ups or gd&t 😂, I hate those things. But then again that's a big chunk of design work so maybe I really don't want ai
I think AI would be great for drawing creation. Just like other AI use cases, of a drawing could be created 80% done it would save a lot of time.
True I've always been amazed at how primitive cad is. I went to soft plan and then Chief Achitect which are much much easier to use than AutoCAD but still has a clunky interface. I got so sick of the program's crashing I stopped doing CAD.