Old I-deas files

[flyersfan]

Hi Guys,
I keep one seat of NX IDEAS running so we can access 15+ years of models and drawings on an as need basis. We have been using Solid Works now for 12 years or so.
New management comes in and questions why I am wasting money keeping maintenance going on an old program. I say we have hundreds of model and drawing of parts we still make.
They say "can't you just push a button and move to Solid Works"??
Anyone here been through this I would love to hear your thoughts.

 

[looslib]

If you haven't created new files in Ideas in a long time, why not drop maintenance and live with that version. It should be a perpetual license that will be usable even without paying maintenance.
Do you transfer the models to SolidWorks when you move them over or recreate them? If you move them, do a mass export to STEP of your Ideas files. Drawings will never transfer over unless you do a snapshot DXF file of the drawing, but you will always lose associativity.


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Ben Loosli

 

[NutAce]

No Knowledge on Solid works, but we used the CMM tool from Siemens to migrate our Ideas parts to NX.
We tried with full model history in the beginning, but this was causing a lot of issues with the "wave" links in the assemblies.
Finally we took the decision to migrate every thing to Brep JT's. These can still be handled with Synchronous modeling.
Also for us there is no connection to the drawing anymore.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11