How Fast Is Your Inventor Pc Really
Our company has purchased 4 seats of Inventor 10 - we currently use ACAD2006 for 2D, 10% of our 3D parts and assemblies are STUCK in Mechanical Desktop, and 80% of 3Dparts/assemblies are in Pro 2001 - we have Wild fire, but have not installed it.(My opinion) - Who copied who? The Pro-E and Solidworks folks will tell you not to buy RE-Inventor, because they copied the benefits from each other. They did enhance the pictorial representation of screw threads.As I said - we haven't gone to WF yet - because that would probably be a 3-day or 1 week upgrade training for everyone from PTC.
Remember - 1 week training for basic - 1 week for detailing, 1-week for advance, 3-days for sheet metal, one week mechanica, 3-days large assembly. To be proficient andproductive at what Cost? How many weeks of lost time for training instead of releasing projects? Plus $ for each module. Why go PDM or Intralink -when Vault comes with Inventor?One week of Solidworksor Inventor training and you can be as dangerous in part modeling and assemblies as some of the us Pro Dinosours.As for handling older files and to what formats. You will need to re-do all of your drawings - you will have a transfered 3D part/assemblies that won't be associated to a drawing anymore.It almost depends on the final customers (end users)needs. If they use Inventor, UG, Pro, Solidworks, SolidEdge, Catia.If you cross over to the Inventor, SolidWorks.
Forums you read their rant & rave. To me - I don't care what platform the design is in - as long as it's in 3D, and has parametric associativity. Just remember that it was us old(Autodesk)Mechanical Desktop users that got stuck!Depends on your application. Also Recall.PTC has its own kernel. GraniteSolid Edge (Unigraphics)has its own kernel. Parasolids and is actually UGS's midrange CADSolidWorks(Dassault) leases the Parasolids license from UGS and is midrange CAD under Catia.MTD uses the ACIS kernel and to my knowledge, Inventor uses a modified ACIS kernel which AutoCADpurchased the code from ACIS(Spatial) beforeSpatial was sold to Dassault. Inventor was created due to the arrival of Solid Works because MTD could not compete at that 3d level.If anyone wants to elaborate.
CadFactor:What tools do the packages not share? What kernal does inventor use? I have never used Inventor. I hear is is simple and easy to learn.
I guess from the activity on this board that there are not many users out there for it. What is the history of the tool?I wonder how much of the merger between Autodesk and Aliaswill actually include a melding software developers. Inventor and aliascould be a force to deal with if those tools somehow get integrated together.Imagine Alias Studio with some solids tools?Or Inventor with surfacing tools of Alias Studio or Sub'ds in Maya.Anyone comment?Edited by: design-engine. Why do i keep reading about Proe having a difficult interface or Proe requiring a big downtime for training is beyond me.It took me a whole week to get proficient at Proe and i had never used a 3d package before.
If you understand the basic principles of three dimensional geometry, as i assume everyone here does, than it's only a matter of getting familiar with the interface.That should definately not take a long time, especially if start clicking everywhere, looking at every menu, or read the introductory pages on the proe interface help.I mean, come on people, how hard could it really be. If you consider yourselves computer saavy people, then what is all this rant about interfaces.Quit complaining, choose a package and spent a couple of hours familiarizing yourselves with the interaface, everything else is the same. The concept of a protrusion is the same no matter what package you're using.Arrivederci. To me it is not how simple to learn something is that makes mechoose onepackage over another since when I do consulting. It is whatpackage doesthe client use. The big money customers use Pro/E.
Somesmallerones use other packages. To me it's how fast you learn and wowfast canyou get up to speed on a particular software. My experience isthat ifyou learn Solidworks first you find most of those people, designers,engineers will remain intimidated byPro/E for life.
Not everyone of course but most. For me itis about how fast you can Ilearn or how fast can I help someone learn.
How Fast Is Your Inventor Pc Really Work
This is one reason Ichoose to help people learn tools like Pro/E.To show them how fast they can learn with the proper direction andspecific stress. I use stress to aid in learning which isanother story.I hear Inventor is very simple to get up to speed on with but that is coming from a Pro/E userwith over 20thousand hours. I suspect everything is easy when yougot that kind of experience.Often with me specifically it is not that the client does not have time tomake a modification it is more that they can't make a modification. A drill housing handle needs to be narrowed some to accommodatea smaller hand say that of a woman.
That requires some fancy footwork or more specifically surfacing know how and quite frankly most packageswill not obtain that specific control. Solidworks can in mostcases. That kind of product is not going to be attempted inInventor. Not yet anyway.Forgive me to imply that evrything revolves around industrialdesign. In the past Industrial Designers have make the 'Pro/E AliasStudio'Combo.
Inventor may strike up a user base like Rhino/Solidworkscomboespecially since Autodesk recent Acquisition of AliasPro/E is close to being a stand alone tool for designers since the ISDXproductis mature.Now there is a potential powerhouse. Alias Inventor/Alias Studio combocould work well. And if the programming gets combined like that withPro/E and CDRS circa 1998 for PTC, I would say in 6 years or so they couldbecome AutoCAD dorks not including the Revit or Architecture folks) Thinkof the potential new market for Autodesk. Remember when you first sawPro/ENGINEER? That is the way Autodesk is marketing the Inventorand it is blowing some people away.
And if autodesk is smart they willallow the Inventor tool to be pirated by engineering students to make the userbase coming out from school. Those poor engineering students will beintimidated by PTC products for life. That is kinda funny but true.Now there is the race! Not those advanced Pro/E or Solidworksdudes or 5 week mold burn for a multi pull injection part. It is with allthose mom and pop shops and new engineers that pirate the tool to completetheir school project and do it yourself 'inventors'.
And I hate those inventors.pun intended. Manyhigh schools are now into the Inventorthing in drafting class to boot.Me personally? I would like to see the price of Mid to Hi end engineeringtools go up. But that is another story.Edited by: design-engine.