If SW Desktop fell off the face of the earth today, what would you do?
take up llama farming
do CAD in Paint
cry and complain that they never really loved you and that they should come back because you need them so much
move to “the platform” SW cloud, 3DX, V6, Catia lite, whatever it’s called now
Inventor/F360
Solid Edge
Creo
Onshape
Start a research project
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What would you do if SW Desktop ceased to exist today? You get the “Dear CAD” letter, and you have until the end of the day to clear out your things. We will send you a gift certificate for the remainder of your paid subscription.
I voted for solid edge, but what I would really do is start a serious study of the options. From what I know today, SE is the leading contender, but I’ve never used it, so that opinion could change.
The platforms are relatively compatible so if you wanted the quickest route to being back up and running again I’d think that would be the way to go.
A switch to an entirely different system is a huge job especially for companies that have long term legacy data. We’re still dealing with files that need to be converted or repaired from being converted to SW on a daily basis from .dwg and we switched to SW in 2006-2008.
If we could just dump everything over to the swamp I’m sure that’s what we’d do rather than look at other systems that required migration.
I’m not sure, so I didn’t vote. Probably SE. Maybe move to 3D Experience, but Dassault has left a bad taste in my mouth the last few years so I certainly wouldn’t jump to that without investigating alternatives.
The decision wouldn’t be mine to make anyway, though to be honest my recommendation would likely carry a lot of weight.
Based on Solidwork’s dismal track record with EXISTING data inside the same program ( re: crusty file template gotcha), I don’t trust them with transferring data not only from one program to another, but from one kernel to another (Parasolid to V6).
What could possibly go wrong with the current “leaders” at the wheel of DSS? <()>
I’ve never been fond of online programs (I couldn’t get used to them), it might sound silly, but I can’t imagine what happens in a two or three-day internet outage.
“a poor thing but mine own”
Solid Edge, they are closest to SolidWorks in how it operates. Maybe NX if I could afford it but I’m guessing I can’t. It actually feels more like SolidWorks than most others.
3DXWorks: Subscription only, no thanks
Inventor: Subscription only, no thanks
Creo: Subscription only, no thanks
Onshape: I really like it but feel PTC will kill it. No way they are getting an ROI on what they paid for it.
I will have a very hard time ever giving Dassault another penny. I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, but it would have to be extreme circumstances for me to consider it.
From what I understand the SW 3DE software runs on the parasolid kernal. The only things that run on the V6 kernal is the “New” stuff like Xdesign etc. I brought this up on the 3DS forum and was told by a DSS employee that this was the case. I’ve been looking for the post but because that place is such a shit hole I can’t even find my own posts.
Essentially the discussion was surrounding this very subject, transitioning to 3DS SW and the way it was put was that 3DS SW was essential desktop with access to the cloud and with the SWymp integrated into it. The was a list of “Non compatibles”, thinks like driveworks, CAMWorks etc but it was also expressed that “This is all being taken care of”. In fact one site I posted listed the tool box as not being compatible and supposedly now it is.
I have a similar concern. What do you do when you loose internet? With everything local I can loose internet and still have access to all my files, have SW work and so on. So manufacturing walks in and asks for an updated print and I have to tell them, “Sorry, can’t help you, internet is down”.
I just don’t think companies are going to want to go there.
If it were to happen, I’d take a good hard look at Inventor, SolidEdge and OnShape. All 3 companies have approached me before to see our needs. SolidEdge would most likely be the one coming out on top because there’s truely some interesting things being developed over there that stand out from the competition.
You get the “Dear CAD” letter, and you have until the end of the day to clear out your things.
Wait, you mean we will get a notice ahead of time?
With what happen to the old forum, i thought we will receive the notice only days after they close it down
Anyhow…
It interest me how no one really vote for CREO…(i am the only one vote for CREO at the moment of writing even though CREO is giving me daily headache and WHY moment)
I know CREO and SWX user dun really get a long.. but it seem worst than i think
I also didn’t vote because what we would switch to isn’t on the list. We are long time KeyCreator users (formerly CadKey) prior to SW and still keep two seats on maintenance for our legacy stuff and it imports files from our overseas suppliers in a more friendlier format than SW. Who doesn’t love an imported 700 part file with everything named “Part XXX” and no rhyme or reason as to where things are in the feature tree.
Though I may have some input as to what we would go to, outside of a couple of us that use it on a daily basis for more than looking at geometry to quote or send to the 3d printer the decision would be made by the people with a higher pay grade than me.
Wow, CADKey…almost forgot that name. Used it for a very short while in the early 90’s. For some reason someone had a copy and then someone had a copy of AutoCAD. Ended up going AutoCAD.
