Solidworks VS Wildfire Mouse Clicks and Travel

[JohnAndrews]

An interesting comparison between Wildfire & Solidworks on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQPmx9YlJOo

"Solidworks claims that they have less mouse clicks and travel to complete features. Well I prove them wrong with a simple 6 feature model. Wildfire took 10 less clicks and the mouse moved almost half as much."

And also Orange County Choppers having fun with SolidWorks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBj4yOa7XXE&mode=related&search=

There's actually also some very good Pro/E and Solidworks demos & tutorials on YouTube

Enjoy....

 

[TheTick]

Does any software have a licensing scheme that bills users by mouse travel?

 

[TheTick]

What kind of workstation were the OCC baboons using?

 

[ctopher]

For crashes, they had the wrong hardware/firmware, it was not setup correctly, or both. In addition to operator error.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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[Heckler]

SWx also has an autodimensioning function just like Pro/E.

Are you an expert user in both SWx and WF?

The OCC video is staged....only an ex-autocad user would smack the ESC key like that.

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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[davidinindy]

Quote "The OCC video is staged....only an ex-autocad user would smack the ESC key like that. "
Hilarious!!! But I agree!!!
coming from a Solidworks background, and now using Wildfire. I can say for sure that Wildfire still requires more clicks and movement. It's getting better with each release though. 2.0 was bad. 3.0 isn't as bad. hopefully 4.0 will be even better.

David

 

[J-C]

There's more mouse mileage and clicks in the video cause the user didn't know how to use Solidworks. First, you see the cursor moving around a bit hunting for toolbar icons, second, they never once use the right-click shortcut to "ok" commands, and last they didn't use the on screen pop ups to enter values. Not to mention the use of keyboard shortcuts and what have you which these kind of tests don't include.

Also, Pro/E auto-dimensions sketches, but how often do you keep the dimensions it auto-guessed you needed?

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP5.1 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.1 on WinXP SP2

 

[Heckler]

Jason,

Regarding the Pro/E auto-dimension sketches....when setting up sketch relations if the user picks the correct datums or references (datums that transfer to the drawing) then the auto-dimensions are more usable. But that comes with experience. What I like about Pro/E 2001 is the Creating Datum Planes On-the-Fly when creating a feature. These planes provide solid references for the feature build and don't clutter the feature tree because the planes are embedded in the feature. But I hear PTC trashed that feature in WF. I wish SWx would come out with Datum Planes On-the-Fly feature....although it did add to the number of clicks to create a feature.

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
o
_`\(,_
(_)/ (_)

(In reference to David Beckham) "He can't kick with his left foot, he can't tackle, he can't head the ball and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that, he'