Although this will alienate all other existing thirdparty cam vendors, i too think they should purchase a cam company or at least brand one officially like has happened with elecworks and simpoe theres something quite attractive about the whole ecosystem solidworks. Most likely anyone using solidworks and proficient with it is not going to be happy with onecnc cad functionality. Perhaps what happend with autodesk and hsmworks will finally cause solidworks to reevaluate some of their positions. There is another solidworks solidworks the platform. I did some research and i found out that draftsight is indeed a free 2d cad program from dassault systemes otcpk. Why dont you quit hiding behind criticisms involving successful, respected, intelligent. The jon banquer blog has yet another exclusive that you simply wont find anywhere else on the internet. The founder of solidworks announced the news in an email to employees. Fusion 360 is different than the rest discuss fusion 360 blog. Autodesk inventor makes using models from proe, solidworks, nx, and catia easier by. Whats your excuse for being such a moron and for hating jews. Solidworks tried with a skunkworks project that failed, curious given the historical link between spaceclaim and solidworks.
Last year, autodesk ceo carl bass banned seat counts for his companys software packages. So here comes the monthly alibre marketing enewsletter, aiming directly at solidworks. Its acceptable to download models from some website even though somebody already modeled it natively and uploaded it to the content center. I would be interested in knowing if anyone has done a direct comparison between catia v5 v6 cgm kernel and siemens nx parasolid kernel or solidworks parasolid in this area. Although you can import an stl,obj or vrml file from the scanner to the other solidworks packages also or any other cad system that can handle these files many of the vars have purchased the scanner for demo purposes. San diego, ca solidworks world 2012 i had to admit i was confused. For 15 years he was a sales rep for solidworks solutions and a cswp, and is now a.
Solidworks founder jon hirschtick, for the last 14 years a member of the executive board of dassault systemes, today announced his immediate resignation. Id love to have a cam package that would integrate with solidworks, update my tool paths when i change the sw model. What you should knowexport from mastercam into solidworks coming soonyep what about the other way around. Camworks learning assembly mode tutorial jon banquer. Its a very good thing for both autodesk and solidworks that ugs siemens, is dead last when it comes to marketing because they are at the top of the pile when it comes to product development. Camworks 2014 makes significant progress on using wip stl models jon banquer. This kind of cover up is in my experience typical of how cadcam companies who have something to hide behave. Theres been a couple reincarnations of his tortured soul on the forums as of late. S happens when youre offering up massive improvements and trying to be a technology leader. Color to be in front when printing graphics window undercut. If solidworks did, they would have purchased camworks many years ago from geometric. A solidworks user who could never figure out that c2 curves and surfaces were missing from solidworks and why they were important.
Gal raz on why dassault had to kill solidworks worldcad. And either would most hard pressed businesses in the current climate. Looking for downloadable 3d printing models, designs, and cad files. We interview autodesk about hsm express for inventor, beta. In my opinion if solid chaining worked well in mastercam there would be no reason to have to. Ive been trying for many, many years to change solidworks position dating back to before this forum even existed. Solidworks is the leading supplier of 3d cad product design engineering software.
At that point autodesk might actually have something a lot more significant than inventor is finally able to compete beat solidworks. But there is no way, i will give up my mdt oct 5 1998 by jon banquer. Solidworks has developed their scan to 3d software to work with this scanner in their office premium. A combination of what solidworks customers are familiar with from the already existing xpress tools found inside solidworks, and light version such as 2 12 axis compared. Graphical toolpath editing is for those who know and can use what powerful cadcam systems like say ug manufacturing, worknc, delcam powermill, worknc, smartcam, etc. The cadcam value added reseller problem jon, i really tried to read this post but i lost track of what it was about. What was ansys thinking when they bought spaceclaim. The shop owner uses an autocad like clone designcad for his 2d stuff and he prefers it to onecnc cad. Everybody was talking about how solidworks was changing its. One of the most significant advances in this release of delcam for solidworks is that delcam is the first company to incorporate multicore enabled machineworks for solid cut part verification.
A worthwhile company would have a freemium model so that you can try it out. Dave thomson was who hired me, and, i work personally with a lot of the people at shopware including chris kozell and they all know. Well i havent seen jon banquer since the days of comp. Does anyone know if there any way to export this model from maya to solidworks, so that i. This was the first time i ever looked at it and i think ill stick with solidworks. Develop3d featurecam and delcam for solidworks 2012. From many years of using solidworks, i know that this is a major problem even on modest sized part models. Im not real happy about how dassault has very sloooooooooooowly let out details on solidworks v6 now called solidworks mechanical conceptual. Jon banquer how about using your crack whore mother. What you should knowexport from solidworks into mastercam. Why cant i open the solid parts directly while in master cam. Solidcam in danger of being removed solidcam runs inside of solidworks as well as autodesk inventor where its called inventorcam. The learning curve for hsmworks is also far quicker because of the flawless integration into solidworks. They note that their software costs a fifth of what solidworks costs, and.
Import material propertiesdatabase from solidworks. I dont think the cadcam press has the nuts to really go after dassault hard about this. Why dont you quit hiding behind criticisms involving successful, respected, intelligent, happy, and otherwise normal people and face the truth that everyone is better than you. This allows them to plant seeds into the solidworks. Jon banquer san diego, ca cadcam technology leaders group on linkedin. Gal raz is a blogger in israel who has written insightfully on why dassault systemes had to kill of solidworks. Jon hirschtick leaves dassault systemes solidworks. You aint worth much but i make the most of your worthless ass. Ive been asked to remodel a fairly complex, swoopy part that is currently modeled in maya. I used to be able to and now it says can not find parasolid data in solidworks file. How many here are using automatic feature recognition.
Opening solid parts in master cam solidworks forums. My take on gene haas and the mess he caused himself. This entry was posted on thursday, may 6th, 2010 at 9. The reason for the evaluation is to find the best cam product that runs inside of solidworks for production machining job shops who are.