Posted: 8/23/2007 5:54:09 AM EDT
Any Engineers or designers here? What industry are you in, What software do you use? Plastic Injection Molding, Thermoforming, Cast Urethane, and Foam here. All of my design work is done in Solidworks.  And if you responding to this you must be bored at work too!
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Solidworks here too. Of course I do programming, HMI, and all kinds of other stuff too. So RSLogix, RSView, etc Bored? you have no idea. I've been rubbing down an old rifle stock with steel wool for an hour, while trying to get ahold of Dell to claim a lost package. Someone stole a local DHL delivery van and burned it to the ground with my package on it!!! 
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Marine Industry/Prototyping. We use Unigraphics NX, Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Camax Camand, MasterCAM. |
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solidworks certified trainer here... Also A certified CAMWorks engineer, Worked in all kinds of fields, Aero, ship building/ repair, nuclear shielding and Medical, programming cnc's, now i teach people how to do it... Im not bored im depressed, another desighner on my course today!!! 
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Pro/E Wildfire 3.0 as well checking in, work at an R&D Lab in the bay area doing Laser research...... I am bored as well but it pays well |
You're not a designer! Get off our thread, strength weenie! Before we know it, you are gonna increase the size of this thread because you found another obligatory "factor of safety" to use on it! j/k, I have utmost respect for good (note the term "good" here) strength/structural analysis guys, I'd do it if I couldn't be in design, but its not my #1 personal choice for everyday work...from the sound of your programs, it seems like that's what you do, anyway, sorry if I was off... |
Years ago,I used to be an injection mold toolmaker, I could not imagine using AutoCAD for that...yuck. Its fine for 2-D stuff, though--it has its place, I have used it to design tool and die stuff. |
AutoCAD blows... Solidworks is great, with it we can make a 3D model at my company without even cutting a tool. We have a Dimension 3D printer that can make whatever 3D part we desire. That way we can have a part that can be tested for fit and function. Basically with Solidworks, the toolmaker still has to write a program, but it takes tons less time, which in turn = less money. I am thinking about learning Catia V5 because many in my industry have gone to it, but what is so great about it? Anyone think its better than Solidworks? |
+1 bazillion I'm an analyst, but probably the heaviest UG user in my department. I refuse to learn CATIA on my own time - if it's that important, I'll sit through the training, otherwise, I'll continue to use CATIA solids transferred to me as .stp files. I also use PATRAN for pre and post NASTRAN processing. I can't see the icons on the MECHANICA menu, and there is no option for increasing their size, or I would use that software occasionally. |
That wasn't very nice. You should take very good care of your strength guys, we are fragile and you may want a drawing signed off. |
I was lucky in the last program I was in, I never "needed" signoffs (we weren't there yet), just semi-approval, so I could treat them much worse and not have to suck up as much...  I am nice to most of them, but making fun of strength guys and shoppers that sit by me is the only thing that pumps my fragile ego  ...Besides, you can't be fragile, you're a "strength" guy by definition!BTW, I have 3 more days (already done the introductory 5) of CATIA/Enovia training next week as well, not looking forward to that...  Yeah, don't learn it on your own, they will send you to a class if they need to, I think they (dept heads) just throw that shit out there just in case someone will hear it and think its a great idea, go to a community college course and bang, there is an easy 40+ hours of training overhead they saved.
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