#TraditionalCADsucks

john_mcclary

I can't wait for OnShape to take over the world...

john_mcclary

How much time to you spend saving in a day... (thank the cloud for no saving!)

This blitz took me about 16 minutes before I set a brick on the enter key and walked about... Just because SW doesn't know what ALL means (2930 unique parts)

Ended up being About an hour and 21 minutes... just so I can delete these parts... solidworks just wanted to ask because it still had them in memory... they were already deleted from the assembly.... damn imported step files leaving junk behind... I was at a point where I couldn't close and re-open to clear that memory without (possibly) loosing something else.



https://youtu.be/PIRhm0JDVjI

3dcad

@john_mcclary Where can I see the full version of that video, awesome trailer

I feel ya about traditional cads, my previous cad was Alibre/Geomagic/Alibre - I thought I would quickly update back to Alibre brand as they bought it back.

Yeah, update and quickly don't really go in same sentence..

Guess what?
Activation was not successful
- Confirm active Internet connection
- Contact support or your reseller for help

I felt really good switching Onshape window on top and continue work.

ps. This happened like 30 hours ago, few hours ago I got new serial to use - and Alibre actually has one of the best customer support in the industry, there is only one that is even better..

michael_stalls

In a previous job i used CATIA professionally....I then started using onshape about two years ago as it was available and it did the job.  Although it still lacks some functionality that CATIA has..(I'm confident Onshape will add the features in due course) the whole concept of cloud cad is so much better. never had to deal with a crashes and lost data  and the version and document control is worth it alone. It really is a great product ! wouldn't go back to CATIA even if it was free.....just wish more companies would hurry up and get on board.

john_mcclary

michael_stalls said:

 It really is a great product ! wouldn't go back to CATIA even if it was free.....just wish more companies would hurry up and get on board.

I feel the same way about SolidWorks with every new and "Improved" version...

michael_mcclain

I use PTC Creo daily to design engines and I absolutely hate it. I'll acquiesce that it's a very powerful program, but when you use it for 8 hours a day it becomes the bane of my existence! After experience in Inventor, then SW, then Creo, and finally Onshape, I am 100% sold on Onshape over them all.

Every day I look forward to leaving work going home and hopping on Onshape! It's taken all the tedious and mind numbing processes I have to deal with in traditional CAD and actually made it enjoyable again! I feel like I'm playing with a toy, but with a professional outcome to my play time!

john_mcclary

michael_mcclain said:

I use PTC Creo daily to design engines and I absolutely hate it. I'll acquiesce that it's a very powerful program, but when you use it for 8 hours a day it becomes the bane of my existence! After experience in Inventor, then SW, then Creo, and finally Onshape, I am 100% sold on Onshape over them all.

Every day I look forward to leaving work going home and hopping on Onshape! It's taken all the tedious and mind numbing processes I have to deal with in traditional CAD and actually made it enjoyable again! I feel like I'm playing with a toy, but with a professional outcome to my play time!

I agree, I do the same thing, I get home and jump on onshape and it's more like a video game to me. All my friends keep telling me to jump into For Honor, or Final Fantasy, "I've got to get just a little more done on this model guys.. then I'll jump on".. midnight rolls around.. and the wife is telling me to get to bed now!

Not sure why it's so addicting.. could be the quick release schedule. It's constantly being improved, there are always new features to play around with. It always feels fresh and new.

edit:  I guess here is the case and point.. I'm on lunch break and I take that time to use OnShape and browse it's forums..

konstantin_shiriazdanov

john_mcclary said:

I guess here is the case and point.. I'm on lunch break and I take that time to use OnShape and browse it's forums..

world first social network CAD we becoming Onshape-dependent

brucebartlett

I love the simplicity of Onshape and really think a lot of the workflows for modeling and basic assembly have become very easy and productive to use, I remember craving Onshape while using other packages for work. I am now using Onshape as my primary CAD and loving getting my project started, the ease of collaboration, no IT overhead, etc, but looking for more tools to bring projects home and getting things into production with ease and reliability. 

3dcad

Onshape not only beats other cad software but it makes pretty much all other web apps look like 'hello world' tryouts. Erp, accounting, schedule planning, etc. support / developers explain that you can't have RMB / hotkey / powerfull advanced functions because the UI is made for browser - I have noticed myself always replying with: "Well, we use this 3d cad software called Onshape that also runs on browser.."

To be honest Google and Onshape are the only ones that have succeeded on making actual software that runs on browser, others just feel like sophisticated homepages. IMHO.

john_mcclary

That moment you are in Solidworks and forget you are not in a "part studio"... Well that sketch was a waste of time...

..(Opens a blank part file and starts again from scratch)....

michael_mcclain

In PTC Creo I occasionally try to create a sketch for multiple features to use. Then i remember that CREO CANT DO THAT! I have to create new sketches for everything I do. Every...single....feature. Oh, and the features can consume the sketch and not allow me to re-route that sketch to a different feature or pull it out of the feature. I cant wait to get home and hop onto Onshape

brucebartlett

@john_mcclary I'd like a $ for every time I made that mistake is SW's. On flip side sometimes I just want break out a sketch in an Onshape assembly and not have to add it in a part studio first but ultimately appreciate the Onshape structure and model stability multi-part and in-context give.  

owen_sparks

john_mcclary said:

I can't wait for OnShape to take over the world...

Damn you @john_mcclary, I left this page open on my PC and upon returning tried to click the "close the program" button.  For extra stupidity points SW isn't even installed on this machine

Cheers,

Owen S.

john_mcclary

LOL

MBartlett21

owen_sparks said:

john_mcclary said:

I can't wait for OnShape to take over the world...

Damn you @john_mcclary, I left this page open on my PC and upon returning tried to click the "close the program" button.  For extra stupidity points SW isn't even installed on this machine

Cheers,

Owen S.

Haha   

john_mcclary

It seems like every time I go back to a Solidworks project I find more reasons to stay in OnShape..

Today's failure, I suppose SW gets jealous with you if you don't open your project for 2 months.. This was all clean when I last left it. Looks like I get to spend my first couple of hours on this "quick update" just cleaning up the broken parts before I can even begin working.. 

brucebartlett

It must have turned all those lights on for Christmas.

john_mcclary

Ur-ma-gurd... I've been spoiled... Haven't had to use Solidworks in a few weeks..

Here I am leaving for the day and I forgot how long it takes just to close the software and go home...
I feel like that guy from office space right now..

john_mcclary

Spent a few minutes today looking for Ball Mate...

Oh that's right, Solidworks has 3 pages of mate types, but not ball.. pffftt

Really wish they started this project in Onshape for when I took it over..

adrian_vlzkz

• I spent half of this week troubleshooting or reinstalling SolidWorks on multiple users this week
• The other half I spent looking for an old legacy assembly and rebuilding it since it had a lot of missing files, I had to save out a new assembly and make everything virtual because needes to update materials in some (open,save and rebuild times where a pain)
•  My original target date to upgrade the company to 2018 is already past due since had to migrate the server because Windows 2008 will no longer be supported

#TRUESTORY #CANTWAITTOGETONSHAPE

john_mcclary

Happy Thursday,
Today will be another great day using solidworks, can't you feel my excitement...

emagdalenaC2i

  Have fun

 

john_mcclary

I'm supposed to be finishing my onshape project yesterday... But I got pulled onto this one again  

After about a half hour of recovering backups (had to go all the bay back to sunday's backup, even though I was in it all day yesterday...) I finialy got it to open. Since then I have been trying to fix one of the other parts that got corrupt, for some reason it's flat pattern is screwed up. Bounding box is not even on the same plane as the part...

Been here for an hour now, and I finally get to make my first edit to the project today... I wonder what else became corrupt overnight...

philip_thomas

Awesome thread and we are very happy to hear that what we have built so far is working for you (we still have a long way to go)!!!

That said, i have a favor to ask - all of you here are pretty prolific posters (John, Rami, Eduardo, Bruce, Owen AND OTHERS) - but between you lot, we have about 5 different capitalizations and spellings of Onshape!!!!!

If you want us to take over the world and give you the best CAD system ever, please meet us half way and all call it the same thing (Onshape!)




THANK YOU

john_mcclary

So On-ShaPE Then?

owen_sparks

@philip_thomas

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure it's spelt OnShape. I can't be held responsible for all the typos in your company literature. 

BTW isn't On-shape a given for decent CAD? It would be pretty crummy CAD if it was CloseButJustToTheLeftShape or JustABitSmallerThanYouDrewItShape.

In all seriousness what does the name mean, I never really got it?

Cheers,
OwEn.

philip_thomas

LOL - You're all comedians!
Yes OwEn - you too!

There is actually a real answer to 'what does it mean?'
We were very nearly going to be called something else until one of the (very many) interviewee's came up with this gem;
"I need my parts on-time, on-price and on-shape" - the rest (as they say) is history!

And now you know

owen_sparks

Cool, I like it. Thanks.

My dept. works more like paraphrasing MeatLoaf. "Two out of three ain't bad".

OwS.

john_mcclary

@owen_sparks nioce

michael3424

philip_thomas said:

We were very nearly going to be called something else until one of the (very many) interviewee's came up with this gem;
"I need my parts on-time, on-price and on-shape" - the rest (as they say) is history!

And now you know

Did he get the job?