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But still goes to show how cloud storage managed by an I.T. staff is better than an on premise system where it sits in a closet waiting for someone to get on their hands an knees to look for an amber light after losing a bunch of work. I never lost even a mouse click in Onshape. (unless you delete a branch without making a version... But that's on you
I didn't think of the hard drive because it happed at the exact same time we upgraded, and those files were originally 2019 being converted to 2021. I figured they were lost in translation. Oh well. We will see if that solves the corruption and files missing issue.
Now SW won't even let me save or close
What's stranger is it flip flops between two different save dialogs, hah
To top that off my keyboard battery died in the middle of typing this note.
This is going to take a while in SW...
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
...Solidworks on the other hand breaks daily and sometimes within the same session. I can literally switch windows and come back to my assembly to see yellow and red everywhere. The solution is to close SW and re-open and voila! Magically fixed until the next hour. I spend over half my time chasing bugs in Solidworks instead of doing the work I need to get done.
Not to say Onshape is perfect, but the fact of having a support staff on-call at any given moment to help me sort out what ails me is a life-saver! When I log into Onshape I feel that I can keep momentum in my day and not be frequently stopped by bugs, broken refs, crashes, corruptiuon, etc...
Not to be too much of an Onshape fan-boy, but I genuinely enjoy the time I spend with Onshape vs the daily struggle to keep Solidworks working how I expect an expensive program to work.
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
All those properties I filled out in the BOM a couple posts ago, It looks like only some of the information actually updated...
For example: the sheet numbers came in correct, but the paint callout reverted back to 9002 gray/white
well that was a huge waste of time. . .
Guess I can't use or use SW's bom editing feature anymore. SW just got that much more worthless.
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Well I contacted with IT Desk , None of their solution did’nt worked for me at all. In the end, I requested for remote access to desktop to finish the assignment. Honestly speaking , its so frustrating to do your work on remote accessed solidworks, because it is so slowwww. Anyways, I just submitted my assignment now and I hope I will get back my solidworks as it used to. If you have any other suggetions for resolving this problem , please go ahead. Thank you, Have a good day sir.
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I really feel the pain of this student. I am forced to teach the CAD courses in Solidworks because students are going into a SW industry
I often talk about the benefits of Onshape, but I have had students complain that I get off topic
How to model in a parametric system should be generalized since each company not only changes what cad system they are on, but also how they use the system.
When I started where I work, I only knew autoCAD 2D, They were using mechanical desktop which just added a few UCS commands and 'create part' commands to what I basically understood as a bunch of lines and arcs.
When we switched to Solidworks a few years later; the changeover literally was a crash course for 4 hours on a saturday, after which we only used MD to open old drawings and step them out.
Going from 2D cad to SolidWorks seems like a huge leap, I work with someone who said it was a struggle for him. But I never considered 3D to be anything more than 2D sketches that are thicker. Knowing the most basic principals can help someone transition from cad to cad. I love that about Onshape since they only have 1 extrude command, 1 loft command, etc. They basically got you thinking of the core function, rather than: first having to decide whether or not i am adding or removing material, along what path? before deciding to switch to a 'features' / 'surfacing' /or 'sheetmetal' tab and selecting one of the many extrude options in each.
so last year SW no longer supported hosting a network license on Windows Server 2008. So we would have had to spend thousands of dollars to upgrade our server. Which is nothing more than a glorified hard drive really. With the exception of hosting a couple of software licenses here and there.
So we were going to switch back to the original system, since that at least worked. Then we were told about online licensing. So we waied the options and said "Hell yea, This actually is way better" so we paid thousands of dollars to convert our SW licenses to an online mode.
Well SW just decided that they don't want to do that anymore and discontinued it. So without warning none of our SW licenses work.
After dealing with the tech support, it turns out you have to go into your computer and delete files, then update the registry to get it back working.
At least this time didn't cost any money, just a few hours this morning... But why would SW finally join the 21st century just go back to a worse system?!
So now were back to square 1 with licenses and will have to deal with activation headaches again... Thanks SW... you F'ing Pricks!
I can open gigantic projects in Onshape even tethering off my cellphone in the woods.
but it takes over 8minutes to even begin loading the first couple parts in a tiny assembly that usually takes 30 sec at work...
this is a place I have use Onshape often too, so I know the connection is solid.
It's faster than cloud-based systems they said...
It's faster to import this assembly to Onshape than it is to open it in SW
(although I'm sure at least part of the performance problems can be attributed to having to run this through my university's virtual desktop infrastructure since I recently had to reinstall Windows and thus don't have SolidWorks on my machine right now)
@alnis is my personal account. @alnis_ptc is my official PTC account.
And I hate how people claim SW is better at Sheet-Metal.
Here is the same part modeled the same way in both SW and OS
Here is what 9 hours of work looks like in SW
(1 existing conveyor design that was pack and go 4 times for different lengths)
and here is what I did in 2 hours in Onshape (customer requested a 3d model for their customer visit tomorrow morning, how nice of them to tell me at 1:20 pm, when we only just accepted the PO last night...)
Technically 45min was opening an old mechanical desktop computer via remote desktop, re-linking all the broken links to the files since they moved file locations to the achieves folder just to step out the turn table base....
Either way, all the effort for both designs was really the performance gap mating 27 sub assemblies.
Crap.. It's giving the error message for each instance in the assembly...
and ofcorse I have another project open that I don't want to force quit.
So, counterweight on the esc key it is...
Day 4, still trying to get it installed...
Try that with other cad..
So, I had him drive to our office and install SW here, assuming there was some corruption of a large file download between us.
After he redownloaded the zip off our network directly and extracted it. I saw the problem.
One I have seen before and is not obvious.
The installer screen is completely blank.
You have to check the box in the zip file before extracting it and installing...
So, it was a windows thing this whole time... I'm pretty sure this issue was posted here a year ago...
The fix:
Now after a couple weeks of letting him bang his head against the wall, work can actually begin...
Arg...