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First thoughts
jonathan_stedman
Member, Mentor Posts: 69 PRO
I hope your developers are split into two types - those who have never used an old CAD system and those that have used them in anger.
Lock them in a room and let them fight it out until the VC funding runs out, so eventually we get software that uses the best of existing techniques but junks all the stuff that is limiting your/our imagination and skills to take things forward.
GOOD
Jon
Lock them in a room and let them fight it out until the VC funding runs out, so eventually we get software that uses the best of existing techniques but junks all the stuff that is limiting your/our imagination and skills to take things forward.
GOOD
- Thank Ahura Mazda we don't have to worry about installing software - that's your problem now - I now just have to make sure my Internet Provider does not F**k up. I'm not in an earthquake zone, am far from the shore line, my optic cable is buried deep etc etc - just got to remember to pay the bill. However all is not forgotten and I do bear a grudge and when I track down those responsible for SW1997-2002 installations I will battering you with a large, wet fish !!!
- Version control, back up and general file admin - I hope its as good as you say. I am sure it is.
- 'Measure ' info in bottom right corner - give that man free doughnuts for a week.
- Clean interface , no shadows or other crazy fake render stuff to distract the brain - brilliant. Thank you.
- No way to lock first part in an assembly to the origin and the xyz planes - or have I missed something? I feel very untethered when an assembly is not locked in space or is that just me? Are those guys in the locked room actually working or have they called a truce? Anybody checked recently :-)
- I think this is going to be a winner. Just don't let anyone who thinks in $partname-function-parameter-this and $partname-function-parameter-that anywhere near the customer facing side of this software. Keep them in a locked room on their own, in the basement preferably. Drag and Drop - not typing is the future. Its hard enough designing products that work well without having to type correctly when driving the CAD software as well.
- I can live without drawings - so 20th century - but put your A Team onto parametric 'configurations'. Lots of share bonus schemes for the best minds on this feature. Parametric software without being able to have configurations is not parametric. All I know is what ever I design, the customer always seems to want the other configuration !!. And when the customer gets what he wants he is happy and I get paid more. So please, pretty please - configurations - and I'm sure you will do it in a 21st Century way.
Jon
www.naturalshelter.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/digitalnaturedesign
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We will give the "measure man" some donuts and don't worry, we will have drawings : -)
John
Big + on configurations!
I'm very interested to see how Onshape is going to handle configurations, patterns (with all kinds of variation like skipped instances) and derived patterns (assembly patterns driven by a part's patterns).
In my company we use these functions a lot. It's in all of our top level assemblies. It's dictated by the kind of products we make.
Btw, SolidWorks' implementation of configurations was one of the main reasons why we chose it over competing packages.
Dries
@Dries - configurations are everything for me and like you - in the top level assemblies.
SW 2012 was when I finally stopped paying subs to Dassault - no progress on core problems and lots of jollys to Las Vagas etc every year to spend the sub money. All the features were working fine, but every time I seem to open up an assembly after leaving it for a week it seemed to rebuild in a manner that always had errors. The configurations always were screwed and re-built wrong. Lets see how OS do it this time . I have no computer programming knowledge but I presume the techniques to get it right at the start have been learnt in the last 2 decades and can now be implemented . I hope so
@Dave_C No battering with fish for you - I get the sense you might like it. I'll keep the fish for Mr Payne
Jon
Or if you want to do away with the constraints and modeled something in your part studio about the origin, you can insert it into the assembly without moving and then right click on it and choose fix. At this point the instance won't move from its current position.
With regards to orienting parts and positioning WRT the origin, see if this gif answers your questions. Many thanks - Philip . . .
ps - you can also mate (or snap mate) to the origin (hint, use the A (alignment) or Q (quadrant) keyboard shortcuts when mating to the origin to specify the orientation)
btw the comment on the programmer? Spot on. Would not believe the arguments I have had over the years with CAD developers who insist this sort of thing is acceptable or when they create a tool that is "mathematically accurate" yet totally incomprehensible to the user.
Jon