gregormarwick
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2007
- Location
- Aberdeen, UK
I'm hoping to get some opinions on the functionality of the measurement tools in everyone's cad software.
I am familiar with Solidworks and NX, so I want to know about the rest.
Our workflow is that one of us creates a manufacturing solid model from the customer's drawing. Someone else checks that model, then we use it for everything from CAM to inspection. The checking part is easy in NX because the measurement tools are great. It sucks in Solidworks because the measurement tool (singular) is pathetic. As you might have guessed, for a number of reasons we are all using Solidworks here right now, and I am growing desperately sick of it.
The projected distance function in NX effectively projects the distance along a vector, this is in contrast to SW (and some others) that can only project onto a plane. The latter requires many more steps in most cases to get the result. The deltas in SW only function if one of the entities is planar. This is something that I seem to need to do frequently at various stages of the workflow, and the inadequacy of the SW method is infuriating.
Before I push for (and attempt to budget) a wholesale shift to NX, are there others that have actually good measurement tools?
I am familiar with Solidworks and NX, so I want to know about the rest.
Our workflow is that one of us creates a manufacturing solid model from the customer's drawing. Someone else checks that model, then we use it for everything from CAM to inspection. The checking part is easy in NX because the measurement tools are great. It sucks in Solidworks because the measurement tool (singular) is pathetic. As you might have guessed, for a number of reasons we are all using Solidworks here right now, and I am growing desperately sick of it.
The projected distance function in NX effectively projects the distance along a vector, this is in contrast to SW (and some others) that can only project onto a plane. The latter requires many more steps in most cases to get the result. The deltas in SW only function if one of the entities is planar. This is something that I seem to need to do frequently at various stages of the workflow, and the inadequacy of the SW method is infuriating.
Before I push for (and attempt to budget) a wholesale shift to NX, are there others that have actually good measurement tools?