I'm a few months late on this but I have used IDEAS, SE, SW and am just picking up Inventor. I tend to agree with Binary about SE, SW and Inventor all having good capability. Algor offers an FEA package now that links directly to Inventor for about $4000 - a lot less than the integrated...
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Plasgear: Do you run your DC motors from the same current/voltage drive? If so, are the motors wired in series with each other or in parallel?
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John
I have an application where I need to supply 75 watts of power to a gear from a DC brush commutated motor-driven pinion. However, I cannot fit a 75 watt motor into the available space. I can fit two 45 watt motors into the space, with both motors driving the gear with identical pinions. The...
We have several thousand .cgm drawing files that we are converting to .pdf(1) format. It is currently being done manually and is very time-consuming. Is an EDS or third-party software package available that does batch conversion of IDEAS cgm drawing files to pdf(1) format?
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-John