Good Afternoon Everyone, Alex Here from the UK, Happy I found somewhere I can learn and ask questions about problems I’m having with my CAD software 
I hope to learn and grow. I will add a photo soon to my profile.
See you deep down in the comment section 
Alex
Welcome to CADForum and the gang!
Hopefully you will learn, grow and eventually be able to even contribute to help others!
Welcome. What software do you use, and in what kind of industry?
I cant wait to be more involved.
I’m using Solidworks 2020 (not by choice) and working in the agricultural machinery manufacturing industry (engineering)
What about yourself?
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I’m using Solidworks 2020 (not by choice) and working in the agricultural machinery manufacturing industry (engineering)
What about yourself?
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I’ve been using Solidworks since 2009, making models and then drawings used to build the stuff shown in the videos below.
You said not by choice. What part, Solidworks itself, or version 2020?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjgzlHZmRY&t=10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XXJqEY-sXk&t=26s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YhniFLrIQI&t=20s
This just tells me that we need to put the cab in the rear of the truck…yikes.
Only if you plan to try to drive a truck into a secure area that’s protected by one of those installations.
By the way, I don’t think the video has been posted, but we had a test years ago where the motor came up into the cab and went out the back window.
I want to know the specs on the u shaped pole. The truck hits it and self destructs, while it barely moves at all.
This is a “friend of a friend” story, so take it for what it is worth. I was told that he had a large transmission on a flat bed truck. Something happened in front of him and he couldn’t get slowed down in time. What would have been a small fender bender turned into a fatality because the transmission wasn’t properly secured and came through the cab.
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I’ve been using Solidworks since 2009, making models and then drawings used to build the stuff shown in the videos below.
You said not by choice. What part, Solidworks itself, or version 2020?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjgzlHZmRY&t=10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XXJqEY-sXk&t=26s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YhniFLrIQI&t=20s
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Well, I don’t hate solid works but it’s my first CAD software, I’ve seen others like fusion360 and some others, not a big fan of the interface SW offers.
I’ve used 3D software in the past like Autodesk 3Ds max that’s how started my Digital 3D experience.
2020 was my first version so hoping 2022 is a little better but work doesn’t want to upgrade just yet, if at all.
2022 seems to be a P.I.T.A. so far so you should wait a little longer and see the comments from further SP’s.
Most likely wait until SP5, or SP5.1 if there’s gonna be one(most likely)
What is it you don’t like about 2020? Is there a specific feature that is giving you problems?
Something I’ve found hard but maybe it’s just me not being proficient in the software yet is Mating, simple mates I find no problems but when mating to a curved surface it makes me punch the screen.
I’m sure there is more but cant think of any more from the top of my head.
I started to post a little information, and it would probably be okay, but I don’t want to take a chance on getting fired.
Mating to a curved surface can definitely be challenging. Using sketches can help in some circumstances.
From what little time I’ve spent in Fusion 360, it handles mating completely differently than SW.
oh really, how so?
Welcome Alex,
I think you will find what I am looking for.
And if I remember correctly mike miller was in a similar industry.
This was a few years ago. Things might have changed, or my faulty memory may be at play.
Let’s say you want to constrain this fastener to this panel.
In solidworks I would pick the face of the panel, and the underhead of the bolt and create a coincidence mate. Then I would select the cylinder of the hole and the cylinder of the bolt and create a concentric mate.
In F360 you would select the edge of the hole in the panel, and then the edge of the underhead of the bolt. The software would create both the face to face and concentric mates based on this selection.
(I had a bunch of screenshots in this post, but the forum and I weren’t getting along, so I had to start over and didn’t take the time to recreate them.)
That’s quite neat! does SW support this function?