O/T...ProE vs. Solidworks

[wtsylvester]

I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I would like some feedback from people who have used both.

 

modeling and assembly ...not the cam end

we all know mcam rules

[gcode]

I've never used ProE, but the cost of

ownership (original purchace and maintenance)

is more than double what SolidWorks cost.

[mold100]

Solidworks Rocks - EAASY to get started and pretty damn powerful to. May not be Super high end but it gets the job done.

 

You should find this to be the majority vote.

[kamman25]

using Pro-e now and have played with solidworks in the past. pro is very powerfull and suprises me with what it can do every day, but it is a very user-hostile programe. solidworks is much more user friendly. if you have alot of learning time i would go with pro, if not stick with solidworks. btw, the nc side of pro-e sucks bad

[Craig-B]

+1 for Kamman25

[wtsylvester]

I have used ProE for quite sometime, granted it is quite user hostile - out of the box. But with the mapkeys you can do alot with a couple of keystrokes. I agree ProMan makes the modeling end look easy. Iges over to mcam.

Forget about the associativity, by the time your cutting parts design should be complete..yeah right

 

I find S/W so mouse driven it's drives me nuts or maybe more nuts :)I have 2 hands and like to use them both

 

From what I see the model package for both runs around the same price 5k..sans maintence fees etc

I know that PTC has rubbed people raw

 

Craig ... how you like there in SC I almost took a job at Cooper Tool in Lex.... tell me it's a

cluster p**k and I did the right thing by not going

[Müřlıń®]

+ 1000 to Kamman.....nuff said.....

 

 

Murlin

[gcode]

quote:

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I find S/W so mouse driven it's drives me nuts or maybe more nuts :)I have 2 hands and like to use them both

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Right click the title bar then click customize

You can program any keyboard shortcut your heart desires.

[wtsylvester]

Gcode,

I will give that a shot. Otherwise I feel like I am playing a video game. Carpel Tunnel Cad

[MetalMarvels]

+1001 to kamman25. I use both ProE and Solidworks - ProE is definitely User-Hostile! Granted, you can do much more with ProE, but the cost of ownership is quite high.

[kamman25]

ProE for the hard stuff, solidworks for the oh sh*t i have to get this done stuff, and Mastercam to Machine it all

[wtsylvester]

What about assembly. Does one seem better than the other or are we mainly talking modeling

[kamman25]

I only model here, forge dies are only top and bottom. our trimmer dept does some assembly i,ll ask them in the morning what they think

[d00d]

I find Solid Works VERY easy to function in assembly mode, practically drag and drop, click and go. I use the cavity function alot when designing electrodes and die cast dies. We do some pretty complicated dies and have never ran into a wall. I dont know about Pro E but I cant imagine a CAD program being more friendly to use with MasterCam. Just my 2 cents. Oh yeah +1 on the price point.