Solid Works competitiveness 3

[CAD2015]

Hi,

What is the Solidworks's place on today's job market, comparing with Unigraphics(NX), Catia V5/V6 or othe CAD software?
Thanks

MZ7DYJ

 

[drawoh]

mz7dyj,

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SolidWorks is user friendly. If it were up to me, I would hire people with engineering training, mechanical aptitude, good reasoning and problem solving skills and good communications. They would have no problem figuring out SolidWorks.

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JHG

 

[MDGroup]

The true answer might depend what industry you are looking into.
Aerospace and Automotive may have preferences for one CAD system, while Consumer Products prefer something different, and Machinary or Mold Design somethign else.
A different CAD program might be more suitable for creating free-flowing swoopy surfaces as compared to welding together structural tubing.

Similar to what Drawoh said, if you are very good with one CAD package, transitioning to another shouldn't be very difficult. They all perform essentially the same functions, it's just a slightly different language.

If I had to pick any CAD program to excel at, it would be SolidWorks. But I'm proabably biased, as are most people in this SW forum.

 

[CAD2015]

Thanks a lot for both of you!

MZ7DYJ

 

[mjcole]

The SolidWorks Weldments functionality is superb It can be used for structural steel frames or woodworking and has had a number of improvements over the last few releases. For processes that SolidWorks software lacks good out of the box functionality for you can find add ins or 3rd party partner tools which can be found on their website. Their Routings or Piping/Electrical and Tubing functionality found in SolidWorks Premium is robust but they are in the process of developing a more in depth electrical package that will allow better collaboration between electrical and mechanical Engineers.

I am a fan of a bunch of other CAD Programs but am no longer the ProE snob I once was. I hear UGNX or NX is a pretty robust tool but have not used it in a few years. The company that owns NX, Siemens has put a lot of work into the Direct Modeling approach where models do not need to be modified parametrically and can be easily changed by resizing features and has the ability to make quick changes to a part with a complex tree of features without having to suffer long rebuild times.

For it's cost SolidWorks is one of the best values in the industry and they pay a lot more attention to their customers. Of course they only consider Windows Users to be customers and will hang up on you if you are using a Macintosh. If you want to use a Macbook or iMac then I'd recommend NX by Siemens which will Run on newer Mac OS.

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