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Diamond
- Joined
- Dec 8, 2003
- Location
- Yacolt, WA
We are a SolidWorks house for mechanical design with 8 seats and probably need a couple more. We use ACAD Electrical for schematics. We are doing more work with companies that use CATIA and we are considering what it would take to get a CATIA seat.
Any Catia users here who can comment on learning curve / cost of a seat of Catia? We are hoping to take advantage of some existing designs completed by our customer that would allow us to integrate our systems and they said we could utilize their existing Catia models and drawings.
We have had this customer send us STEP files converted from their Catia models and found that this isn't an altogether smooth process. I.e. mates are hard to manage as some of the planes come in 0.000000001 degrees off of orthogonal and this can be really irritating.
thanks for any feedback . . .
Any Catia users here who can comment on learning curve / cost of a seat of Catia? We are hoping to take advantage of some existing designs completed by our customer that would allow us to integrate our systems and they said we could utilize their existing Catia models and drawings.
We have had this customer send us STEP files converted from their Catia models and found that this isn't an altogether smooth process. I.e. mates are hard to manage as some of the planes come in 0.000000001 degrees off of orthogonal and this can be really irritating.
thanks for any feedback . . .