Research Help, Please?
Eric Pearce
Please, everyone read:
My name is Eric Pearce, I am a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering.
A significant portion of my research is going to be directed to writing a
parametric program for AutoCAD. One of the means of justifying my research
is that AutoCAD is more widely used throughout the world than other more
expensive CAD systems such as Unigraphics, Catia, and ProE. From reading
the messages on this board, I feel safe assuming that many of you are from
places outside of the U.S. Regardless whether you are from the U.S. or
elsewhere, and at last I come to my request, would you, all of you, be so
kind as to respond to this post and tell me:
Where you are from?
What application you are working on, i.e. basic AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical,
etc?
What your main product is or what industry you are working for (
manufacturing, mechanical, civil, architectural, etc.. )?
Why you are using AutoCAD versus some other higher end CAD system?
Do you have data transfer problems with customers/vendors that have CAD data
in other higher-end systems?
If you made it to this point, I really appreciate your reading this. Thank
you very much!!
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Eric Pearce
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student
Brigham Young University
http://www.et.byu.edu/~pearce
Eric Schneider
Everyone else is. 2. It is what I learned in school. 3. I like the
versatility of being able to use plug-ins. 4. It was already here when I
started.
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Regards,
Eric S.
John Uhden
1987 because of its open architecture and 3rd-party Civil embellishments.
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Scribble
AutoCAD 2000
Civil land development
AutoCad because everyone else does and we like it
We use other 3d civil packages and transfer to them without drama
cheers
Steve
Doug Broad
2. CAD Applications: Arch Desktop 3.3, 3d Studio Vis
3. Product/Industry: Architecture
4. Why: First one learned, most popular, less expensive, "higher end"
products have not demonstrated higher productivity in my area,
5. Data transfer:
Microstation: Hatch exploded.
DataCAD: Symbols explode to 3dfaces. Plumbing fixtures must be erased and redrawn.
Dimensions are exploded. (Newer versions may be better)
dkampe
2) AutoCAD 2000
3) Structural Engineering
4) largest client base, dealers leave you alone (You learn to hate conquest
marketing ala Pro-E)
5) All of our clients use AutoCAD, although we do have to transfer back to R14,
R13, or LT for a few.
Data transfer is not really a problem that much anymore, since the market has
pretty much shaken those trees bare.
AutoCad is simply the best program for developing customised solutions to "your"
problems. The bigger companies
have their solutions, but they always require you to change the way you work to
their method.
I used to work for a manufacturer where I did alot of parametrics, and
standardized drawing development in AutoCAD, and I
simply don't know how I would have done it on a different system.
ddk
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Randy Richardson
the U.S.A. and all of them were working for manufacturers or for firms that
had manufacturers as clients.
I use basic AutoCAD, and have sought companies that use AutoCAD because it
is fun to automate. At my last job, I was asked to evaluate ProE for our
group. The company had already committed to switch to ProE for its main
product line, but for my product line we weren't sold on it, possibly
because I had already automated a lot of the work in AutoCAD. I learned
that things that could be drawn simply in AutoCAD would require extensive
work in ProE (a simple trapezoid consisting of 4 line entities in AutoCAD
would have required the purchase of an addition module of ProE only because
in the final assembly the 1/4" plate was formed with a spherical radius),
and that the automation was more difficult in ProE because you had to have a
separate model for a truss with four vertical members, with five vertical
members, with six vertical members, and so on. This information is old, so
perhaps ProE has improved since then. In AutoLISP, you had the flexibility
to program it to work with any number of vertical members. This is just an
example, but there were many more consequences of similar quality. When I
moved to my current job, the company I work for had already rejected ProE
because when the ProE man showed up to find out what was done here, he just
threw up his hands and said that ProE could do nothing for this company. I
guess all the different options were just too much for it. So I'm happily
automating the drafting work using AutoLISP.
As for file transfer, that's not a problem at all, the question isn't really
relevant on my case.
Hope you're enjoying Utah, I lived there most of my life.
Jürg Menzi
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Cheers
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MENZI ENGINEERING GmbH, Switzerland
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