SWX vs IV 1

[wehnerk]

I have mostly Mechanical Desktop and Inventor experience and am now in
the process of selecting an MCAD package. We make custom industrial
equipment used in the glass manufacturing industry

Is there anyone in this group with Inventor experience that can point
out a couple areas where SWX and IV differ?

Please don't take this as an invitation to bash either product.

 

[MechEng13]

wehnerk,

The biggest difference between IV and SWX is the ability to have "Configurations" in Swx. What that is, you can have multiple variations of a single part, or an assembly. An Assembly could have it set up so that you have components set in different locations.

It is the single largest thing I miss about SWX since I moved to IV 5 months ago.



Alan M. Etzkorn
Product Engineer
Nixon Tool Co.

http://www.nixontool.com

 

[Areva]

Wehnerk

I’m not an Inventor user.

As well as configurations SW also has eDrawings. This is an excellent 3D viewer for emailing to customers/suppliers especially for non-cad orientated types and was one of the (many) reasons my company chose SW rather than Inventor when we replaced MDT.

Eddy

 

[MechEng13]

Good Point Areva,

I didn't use EDrawings much at my last job due to the majority (99%) of my work was in house tooling design. That is the second largest complaint on the ADesk IV discussion group..after configs.



Alan M. Etzkorn
Product Engineer
Nixon Tool Co.

http://www.nixontool.com