There is a very significant cost involved in switching your CAD tool, including reviewing and changing processes, training users, remodeling or converting your database (not really even an option, IMO, anyone who says they can do it with feature-based results is lying), deploying the software.
Also, you probably have internal procedures that are built around Pro/E to a cetain extent, along with a user base that has been trained and seasoned on Pro/E. If you have been using Pro/E for any length of time, then you have a large model database that you have invested a lot of money in. The last and maybe most significant aspect would be the same for any CAD software switch. Large assembly performance is way below the Pro/E level, to the point it's not even possible beyond a certain point. No data management tool - they rely on 3rd party PDM tools.ģ. It's been a while (~3 years) since I compared them, but there were three big issues with SW that made it not possible for many companies:ġ. It's a lot of work to do a feature-by-feature comparison, but I would leave that to the SW sales team if they want to your business.
Summary below - Names removed to protect the innocent. On justice and on friendship, there is no price, but there are established credit limits.Thanks for all the ideas, I had a fairly good idea of the costs and upsets a change would cause, but it always handy to find good technical reasons to kill the idea, or have some good technical issues that can be used in testing to expose the weaknesses of solidworks e.g large assemblies, poor patterning, limited surfacing. Set retval = modelDoc.CreatePoint2(Val(Coords(1)) * Conversion, Val(Coords(2)) * Conversion, Val(Coords(3)) * Conversion) ' calculate conversion factor for meters -> current unitsĬoords(Cnt) = Coords(Cnt) + Mid(dataStr, I, 1) Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application") ' Macro written by Joe Jones New Hampshire CAD '
' Point data is in a TAB delimited file "3dpoints.txt" ' Edit a 3D sketch and run this macro to automate the creation of 3d points. 'each line is a point coordinate in the format x y z (you can save this from excel file 'source file is text file named "3dpoints.txt" in same directory as macro 'Zoom in to a very small area in your model in order to prevent merging of points
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