Pro E or Solid Works?
JNovak6204
anyone out there experienced either one? Pro E costs more money but which one
is easier to use? I here you get what you pay for.
pjb5
option for a small startup company. for obvious cost reasons. solid works is
more user friendly, but no not as powerfull. make sure you know all the options
in pro-e and decide if you really need all those modes. if you plan on doing
sheet metal, machined parts, plastic molds, injection molding then you need
pro-e. if you only need one of these things then dont spend the excess money cuz
you are paying for bells and whistles you will never use. good luck
paul
Robert Smith
Solid Works as the sole drafting tool for two projects. Before this course
I had no experience with anything other than Autocad 14 (educational). I
will say, personally, that Solid Works was MUCH, MUCH easier to learn than
Autocad. Functions are handy, and make drawings EASY to manipulate, And
several features make it seem more useful. Take into account, however,
that I have no industry experience, and no experience with any other
software (i.e. Pro E), so my humble opinion may not be very valuable.
On 8 May 1999, JNovak6204 wrote:
*Date: 8 May 1999 02:56:06 GMT
*From: JNovak6204 <jnova...@aol.com>
*Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
*Subject: Pro E or Solid Works?
*
*My company is deciding between these two softwares Pro E or Solid Works. Has
*anyone out there experienced either one? Pro E costs more money but which one
*is easier to use? I here you get what you pay for.
*
*
spor...@my-dejanews.com
disagreement out there that the learning curve for SolidWorks is MUCH
shorter than for ProE. There is simply no comparison there. I disagree
with pjb5 regarding the NEED for ProE's power for sheet-metal, plastic
injection molding, etc.. Of course ProE will offer some more
functionality (for a heck of a lot more money and trouble), but if you
don't need just incredibly complex geometry then SolidWorks will do the
job admirably. Don't take that to mean that SolidWorks doesn't handle
complex geometry . . . it can handle quite some amazing complexity,
including large assemblies, fancy compound filleting, spline generation,
lofting through complex cross-sections, surface deformation, etc.. It
has very good sheet-metal capability (probably somewhat surpassed by
Solid Edge, but it's still pretty darned good). It has very good
drafting support and it is quite robust. The company supports its
products very well. New releases are averaging every 7 months or so and
usually have very few bugs (relatively speaking). Bug fix patches and
functionality enhancements come along regularly, but not so often as to
make maintenance a problem. They wring their product out very
thoroughly before releases. I wish Microsoft would be half so thorough
with the almost unlimited resources they have. I think you'd like it.
And they have a 30-day trial. Give it a go.
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jnova...@aol.com (JNovak6204) wrote:
> My company is deciding between these two softwares Pro E or Solid
Works. Has
> anyone out there experienced either one? Pro E costs more money but
which one
> is easier to use? I here you get what you pay for.
>
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systems, I suggest you do a survey of your company's needs, what it
does, how big are large assemblies, what mfg methods used, and alos
important, what your suppliers and your customers use. Then match your
requirements to the product. After all, there is a reason Autocad is not
used by aircraft companies and small civil engineering firms do not use
Catia.
Proe has a 1.9 gig limit to what it can pull up in a model space. For
the company I work for, a large assembly is considered about 250 meg or
250 parts and assemblies. Very large goes from there. If we were to pull
up an entire vehicle and support facilities, our model space would be
about 8-10 gig and about 6000-8000 parts and assemblies (50,000 total
instances). Due to the 1.9 gig limit, without simplified reps, I can
only pull up a model with about 2500 parts/assemblies. Yet we have parts
that are 70 inches long and 30 inches wide but only .020 inches thick
with 2 chem mill steps of .002 depth each. All of this is modeled in
Proe so we can get accurate weights, cg's, etc. Overall vehicle length
using said parts is about 200 feet. So we end up with very large ratio's
of max dimension vs min dimension.
So our company needs the horsepower of Proe. Quite possibly your company
does not.
Larisa Migachyov
> My company is deciding between these two softwares Pro E or Solid Works. Has
> anyone out there experienced either one? Pro E costs more money but which one
> is easier to use? I here you get what you pay for.
Unless you're planning to do FEA, I think SolidWorks is easier to use and
needs less computing power to run.
--
Larisa Migachyov http://www.stanford.edu/~lvm
Scott Lee
was due to R20 engancements, and you can document your designs a lot better (i.e.
"draw mode" drawing generation is a LOT better in Pro/E,). Similar price, more
power, upward growth path. Pro/E has all that. I have been approached by
customers whose solidworks projects had problems in the documentation end (i.e.
geometry and dimensioning could not be communicated in solidworks draw mode).
That problem does not exist in Pro/E.
Scott Lee
Mechanical engineer, PE
http://www.cadtools.com
steve rowe
Works.
Does anyone have comparisons between these 3 with regard to designs that
involve large assemblies for special purpose machinery. i.e where individual
optimisation of components is less important than the speed with which a
complete machine can be designed?
Larisa Migachyov <l...@leland.Stanford.EDU> wrote in message
news:7hnj03$q8o$2...@nntp.Stanford.EDU...
> JNovak6204 wrote:
> > My company is deciding between these two softwares Pro E or Solid
Works. Has
> > anyone out there experienced either one? Pro E costs more money but
which one
> > is easier to use? I here you get what you pay for.
>