Comment by nancyminusone

Comment by nancyminusone 21 hours ago

Solidworks's current controls are the best interface for it. "Draw a picture" is something you're going to find really difficult to beat. Most of the other parametric CADs work the same way, and Solidworks is widely known as one of the best interfaces on top of that. They've spent decades building one that is both unambiguous and fast.

thesuitonym 21 hours ago

Maybe it's just the engineers I've worked with, but I've never heard anyone describe Solidworks as "fast."

(Of course, you and I know it is, it's just that you're asking it to do a lot)

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nancyminusone 21 hours ago

Haha yes, I've never heard any engineer discribe any CAD package as anything other than slow and full of bugs. But of the alternatives, I think most would still pick Solidworks.

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- gmueckl 15 hours ago
  
  I wonder how many of these bugs are actually situations where the underlying algorithms are simply confronted with situations outside their valid input domains. This can happen easily with 3d surface representations of geometries.
  
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- FuriouslyAdrift 19 hours ago
  
  All of our production engineers that use CATIA think SolidWorks is fast...
  I guess it's all in the perspective
  
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jwagenet 12 hours ago

Modelling isn't the slow part. If one is copying a drawing and have exact dimensions its pretty straightforward in most software even if the software is bloated.

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