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Some people are just toxic to AI
Our company is moving to Onshape as our primary cad system!
Don't worry though, I'm training them right
You know.. the important things
It looks like SW has taken notice lol.
Nice try y'all, but It's going to take a lot more than a puppy to get me away from Onshape!
One of our AutoCAD LT users was not able to use the software for more than 2 minutes at a time before it would say her license is invalid.
Then kick her out.
I reached out for help from them, since it's happened to that user at least 3 times before. I figure there is just something weird going on with her account.
They fix it 5 days later, after we contacted them 2 more times.
(It sounds like her auto-update wasn't working, so she had to go run that app...)
2 minutes of work on their end.
Now today I get this from our rep asking if we want to purchase a tech support seat... F U
I thought that was the whole point behind these third-party resellers!
Now AutoCAD has moved purchasing and upgrading accounts to a self-serve model online. So, WTF is the point of these guys anymore!
We've had an account with them for 20 years, and we asked for help twice... The last time I called them was back in 2010...
First of all we have 5 seats of LT... Second of all, Holy crap!
Meanwhile in Onshape, we had two users that were trying to open a BOM on their models at the same time. It was critical since they are releasing those jobs and need to access all the BOM info for purchasing and manufacturing.
We all watched through the next day or so as at least 3 or 4 different Techs (that I saw) were bouncing in and out of both documents. They finally found a bug and fixed those documents a couple hours after that. Now that's what dedication to your product and customers looks like!
You're the G.O.A.T. Onshape Team!
Simon Gatrall | Product Development Specialist | Open For Work
Solidarity:
I haven't touched Solidworks in years now, and have only a passing familiarity with the whole 3DExperience thing, but this blog post about it is gold. I guess Dassault just really wasn't happy with slowly improving their cash cow and wanted to rip everything up and integrate it more.
https://cadbooster.com/37-things-that-confuse-me-about-3dexperience/
Simon Gatrall | Product Development Specialist | Open For Work
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I recently took a Catia/3D experience instructor led class. Took three month, and all I know now is that it is not the tool I could ever do my kind of work with. When participating in that, in the evenings, out of curiosity, I recreated each excercise in both Spaceclaim and Onshape. Bottom line: There wasn't much I would actually need Catia for (I don't do super high class surfacing), 3D experience as such is a mess, slow, and prices are ridiculous. I could afford another person to help modeling in OS full time for that and be three times as productive.
Having to update tweak some legacy stuff in SW today… I guess I'll know how well it went by the 31st!
I saw this post on LinkedIn and I had to laugh. This is one of those things that I never have to think about any more. I never have to worry that my team, or my clients/vendors aren't all on the same service pack. To think that we would vote and discuss this stuff. Yes it was important to me because it affected me, but wow, even as a CAD admin, this shouldn't have been my problem.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development Specialist | Open For Work
For those who might consider the Solidworks for Makers version, here's a video of the process of updating to the latest version - over 28 minutes!!! And a lot of clicks, UserID and Password entering multiple times, etc…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgnl_XxLwcI
Simon Gatrall | Product Development Specialist | Open For Work
So yesterday was an outage of AWS and a lot of services were not reachable.
Like Autodesk License Server:
I wonder if anyone noticed any problems with Onshape?
Onshape was unaffected 😁
I bet it was Neil's secret backup server protecting us from the outage.
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Just saw this morning that Solidworks is dropping the 3dExperience branding from all of their offerings, but otherwise making no changes to that platform or those products. Sure guys, the branding was the problem. 🙄
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | Meddlerno way! That's hillarious
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In a sense it was (has been) not the branding itself, but the whole vision of it. Has never been about the user or customer, but this distopian vision of what the world of "product development" would become. I used to be very involved in the SW community, I remember it just felt "Off" since day one when announced at SWWorld like 15 years ago.
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