Who wins out and why?

Who wins out and why?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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    solid works becuz MUH GOYUM!!!

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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    solid works becuz MUH GOYUM!!!

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  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Started out with NX, then SW, now c**tFusion360. I'm more used to SW, but Fusion really is the better software, even ifPrepHole hates it. Now that I think of it, it's better because PrepHole hates it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I used Fusion 360 as my first CAD software as there is a free version and I wanted to 3D print things. Now I'm learning SW because it's more relevant, I find it clunky but definitely a more allround and complete package.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Now I'm learning SW because it's more relevant
        More relevant to what? Most of the companies around me all use Autodesk products, so it's not as relevant anymore, SW is losing a lot of market share recently. Fusion is the more complete package to me because it has a better integration with CAM modules for our CNC machines.

        They're pretty much equivalent for 3D modeling and multibody assembly, and while Inventor has an edge when it comes to drawing, SW really shines when you include the simulation modules.

        >SW really shines when you include the simulation modules
        Meh. For a quick and dirty FEM analysis, Fusion is good enough. For an actual, proper analysis, I'd want to go to Ansys anyways since SW really isn't good enough for legal/expensive purposes. The only advantage over Autodesk there is that SW has CFD integrated but Fusion requires a seperate program. Qualitatively, I haven't used either enough to tell the difference, I'm just used to Flowsim so it's easier to me. But really, how many engineers use CFD daily?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >More relevant to what?
          It's more relevant than 360, also SW happens to be in use where I work so it makes sense in my case. We use sheet metal and weldments, weldments doesn't exist in 360 and its sheet metal functionality is underwhelming.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Most of the companies around me
          Anecdotal. Here is a counter anecdote: in the engineering studio where I work most of the client companies use PTC Creo Modeling for some fricking reason (my guess is that it handles large assemblies really well as they all make huge industrial production lines) and I hate them for it because Creo Modeling is absolute ass, however Solidworks is still used by a significant number of clients, while other softwares like Inventor, CATIA, and SoldEdge, are barely represented. It's odd to me that companies in my area prefer Modeling to CATIA, as the latter is clearly the more powerful software, but price might be a factor.
          >SW isn't good enough
          On the contrary it is good enough, for a certain kind of work, especially because Ansys and Patran-Nastran are orders of magnitude more expensive. Of course it's not as powerful, nor optimized, and you don't have the kind of control over the mesh you have with Ansys, but since the FEA suite is integrated with the modeling core of the software it's extremely easy to iterate on a design and that's very valuable.

          And I forgot a small caveat on Inventor: it's not suitable for large assemblies.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    SW pre 2015ish - it's just not had enough improvement since.
    Inventor since 2015ish, it's alot better.

    SW is better for doing wireframe type structures currently, but that's about it imho.

    SW pdm is better integrated into windows than Vault but is pretty shit overall, and the "toolbox" is horrendous

    CATIA for big assemblies (you can open 100k part assemblies without problems on computers from the stone age)... But I hate it to use tbh

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    FreeCAD gigachads

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OpenSCAD

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They're pretty much equivalent for 3D modeling and multibody assembly, and while Inventor has an edge when it comes to drawing, SW really shines when you include the simulation modules.

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