Ok so I am helping my company choose which version of Solidworks to get and I was wondering if anyone had ever used the Sustainability feature of Solidworks. Is it useful/ what does it do?
Ok so I am helping my company choose which version of Solidworks to get and I was wondering if anyone had ever used the Sustainability feature of Solidworks. Is it useful/ what does it do?
Also is it easy to import microstation files into Solidworks?
^ What he said about 3D Solids files, save them as IGES or STEP, and import to Solidworks. We had '07 and now '09 full pro suite, COSMOS/Simulation is the only part of the suite we ever used other than the basic 3D CAD Drawing/Drafting features.
Sustainabilty didn't exist in either version I have experience with, so I'm no help. We did custom metal fabrication, so I can't see that the Sustainabilty package would be anything we'd ever need. Or really anyone would need for that matter, you know what your building, and what your building it out of, personally I think it's just Dassault's way of cashing in on the "Green" bandwagon.
I use Solidworks daily. I haven't used the sustainability feature. I don't see how it would work tremendously well. Life cycle assessment is a process that makes more sense to use at the beginning of a project. I'm too young to be an old school product designer, but even still, by the time I get to modelling something in 3D, materials are already specified. Granted, I work for a design studio that does custom fabrication. For volume manufacturing, being able to quickly determine what a material substitution or design change does to your LCA might be useful.
Solidworks imports files better than it used to. It also has feature recognition, which can take an imported file, and make it parametric. That said, I've had mixed results with it.
The microstation files are 2D drawings. It would be nice if I could at least open the files in Solidworks.
In reply to 93EXCivic:
SW imports .dxf/.dwg files just fine. You just have to specify the plain to import it too.
93EXCivic wrote: The microstation files are 2D drawings. It would be nice if I could at least open the files in Solidworks.
Yeah, you can open them, either in SW or in the included DXF viewer.
Manipulating them sucks, but opening them should be fine.
DILYSI Dave wrote: Yeah, you can open them, either in SW or in the included DXF viewer. Manipulating them sucks, but opening them should be fine.
Yup, imported drawings are annoying to manipulate. I had problems with importing/exporting drawings a few years ago when working with NC code programming. I had to go and check the entire drawing for double lines, split curve, and some other anomolies.
BTW, 93excivic, congrats on the new job. I've been out of the loop for a while, but last I read you were still looking.
SW user of 8-9 years.
At the previous gig I used SW Pro for 3 years and finally got premium the last year to some rudimentary FEA, which was mostly a frustration.
At the new gig I'll just be running pro. The "sustainability" feature is yet another way to "select-all-click-have-it-do-my-job-for-me". Now everything the 1st year ME grads design will still look like Dyson vacuums, but really green ones.
(Before hating, consider that I'm being satirical)
Brotus7 wrote:DILYSI Dave wrote: Yeah, you can open them, either in SW or in the included DXF viewer. Manipulating them sucks, but opening them should be fine.Yup, imported drawings are annoying to manipulate. I had problems with importing/exporting drawings a few years ago when working with NC code programming. I had to go and check the entire drawing for double lines, split curve, and some other anomolies. BTW, 93excivic, congrats on the new job. I've been out of the loop for a while, but last I read you were still looking.
Yup right now it is only a part time job but it may well become full time. I feel lucky to have a part time job considering how well a lot of people in my graduating class have done at finding one in engineering in Huntsville.
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