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I've just read one of the perpetual debates on Pro/E versus SolidWorks and thought to try and add a bit of objectivity, we could
upload video demonstrations of procedures in one of the CAD packages
using CamStudio or something similar, then other people could complete a similar procedure in the other packages and then we can all compare the two.

To start the proverbial ball rolling, I've uploaded a short video of a surface continuity blend in Wildfire 3.

2007-11-12_044029_Surface_curvature_071112AA01.zip



What does this procedure look like in SolidWorks?



I guess we could post the videos on Youtube, but I'll have to leave someone else to pioneer that step.



Sam
 
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GREAT idea!


I'll see if I can put something together later in the week.. And lets not be bias.. (if posible) lets look at the simple every day things along with the complicated things which we feel ProE excels at!


I'd love to see some UG and Catia videos too..


James
Edited by: james.lynch
 
just go to SW page to obtain some intresting movie tutorial, like this one below

http://www.solidworksmedia.com/CPD/CONSUMER_PRODUCTS.html

I`ve thought to run similar topic about comparison between couple of software - Pro\e vs Catia vs SW. Up to now, I was making this in silence to make some comparision by my own, but since this topic is started, I can put it here

intresting film considering powerfull tools in Catia

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RwOuaNvpPLI

anyway there is much more about catia on you tube
 
Are the canned sales videos from the parent company always the greatest source of comparison?
I'm not sure.

Everybody plays to their strengths when it comes to selling the product, even if they have to play games to do it!

So does it improve the design, or does it improve the sell?
On the other hand, maybe that's the very thing to put up or shut up!

Actually that SW teaching video is pretty good!
Edited by: gamauf
 
If I was publishing a video to sell a software product I would probably polish it and smooth over the cracks as best I could. Hence I thought it would be a good idea to have some direct, user created comparisons to look at. In the next few days I will try and upload a Pro/E example of the razor example (or at least part of it) demonstrated in SolidWorks in the above link posted by Jacek Mydlikowski.

The canned videos provide a starting point, but I was thinking short videos would be easier for people to provide without much effort.

Sam
 
I have to agree that canned videos and sales presentations tend to be overly polished. I'm sure SW can do every bit as good a job of this as PTC, who has long held an industry-wide reputation as masters of the canned demo. I would help out on this, but my surfacing skills in Pro/E are pretty rusty, and I've never done much of it in SW. From a practical standpoint, the biggest productivity differences I seein my use of these two CAD products isn't their modeling capabilities: it's making drawings.
 
They make the surfacing of the razor look very cumbersome compared to using ISDX in ProE.


You could model the whole thing in about 10 mins in pro - especially in WF4 with the new surface edit stuff.
 
Is that an offer from blockandhole? I was going to add an attempt at the razor in Wildfire 3, but I'd be keen to see what Wildfire 4 can do.

Cheers,

Sam







Edited by: SW
 
I think good comparison could be done regarding tutorials stuff


here some intresting tutorials for SW can be found and that guy deal with SW in really intresting manner


take a look - [url]http://www.productdesignforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5214& amp;st=0[/url]


another one - http://www.productdesignforums.com/index.php?showtopic=4941


and whole list of tutorials - http://www.productdesignforums.com/index.php?showforum=60


while taking a look on tools they look pretty similar to those we can find inPro\E ordinary package, except curve on surf which I assume is in ISDX included
 
ok, it seems I was not enough precise - curve sketched on 3D surface, not a curve through points on quilt.

So COS from ISDX - This is what I intended to say.
 
SW continuity is about the same actually in sw2007. I like the camtaisia idea tho...

there is no real time update yet in sw. There are a couple tools that let you update in realtime however not with the 3d curve tool and surfaces because...

ISDX all fits into one feature so it can update in real time. move a curve and the resultant surface updates in real time. SW has not got that yet. But thats an add on module and we should compare base Pro/E to base SW....

You can sketch a curve on surface in basic proe but its difficult to redefine once placed. and to boot... when I have showed that to PTC AE's they often exclaim they did not know Pro/E could do that. Base price SW can do it pretty well.




Edited by: design-engine
 
I know I'm not leading from the front too well, so to speak, but can we get some short videos uploaded? I was trying to keep away from discussion to a more fact based argument with videos to illustrate the point. The videos can be short, and like the first one I uploaded, don't have to be slick.

Cheers,

Sam
 
If it works out better for everyone we could post the video files on our website. They could all be together and organized that way.


If everyone would like that.


Kevin
 
well we can link to videos...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/dicksham" target="_blank" target="_blank">
http://www.youtube.com/user/dicksham</a> < this guy is a design engineer in Hong Kong. He used Pro/E Catia and Solidworks. His videos are extensive and shows the strength of Catia

http://www.youtube.com/bbrejcha Thats me... Pro/E surfacing videos. Not that many tho.

http://www.productdesignforums.com/index.php?showtopic=8141
I started this thread on another fourm in hopes to get people to share alternate software. We had SW, CATIA, MAYA Pro/E and Alias entries.

I have not explored solidworks YOUTUBE videos yet so search "surfacing solidworks". I will start some solidworks videos next month or April.


Edited by: design-engine
 
ha ha. That SW was not used because those companies use Pro/E. Ten Thousand views is not too bad. I think that was MAYA or three d max tho. I like the 'Deploying 3d sketch' talk. So funny. I like how they sketch the 3d curve to traject a missile.


Edited by: design-engine
 
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