

#Solidworks 2005 can i plot how to
But if I were have just back in the day blamed the user for not knowing how to navigate around software quirks, I'd probably have very quickly lost my job. Used to work as a digital product manager, and yes I'm probably at a more basic user level. I have tried options (OnShape a notable one given its the same guy who created solidworks started this one) but unfortunately while they might do some things better, they might be too simplistic to compete.

Oh this is definitely just a plain complaining thread. I get how after years of use or just adding more powerful hardware, you can get it to work like how you want to, but that's not the point of this pure complaining thread TL:DR The dominant market shares of Solidworks / Inventor in product design has led to terrible options in the market.Įdit: Also, seems like more experienced users would rather blame the user / hardware than the software design. Tried installing Inventor, and within a few clicks it felt about as slow and buggy as Solidworks. Every yearly version of Solidworks can't be opened by a previous years, making collaboration that much harder. Loading takes forever even when it's a tiny file, especially when you have a few simulation results to load. It would crash too sometimes for good measure.

Or how about when you want to test a few different configurations, you simply can't, as changing a configuration will invalidate the study results / not show you the stress plots anymore.Īnd of course it's god awfully buggy, with things simply becoming invisible / frozen unless you try doing something random to get it back to normal. Error messages like "Member not found" or "Error transferring special load" happen, and all I can do is to try to create the whole assembly from scratch and see if that solves the problem.Įven when the simulation does work, I can only half believe the results, as adjusting one or two dimensions create intuitive changes in the results. With simulations, I get mystery errors left right and center with no obvious cause or indication of where the problem comes from. With assembly mating, a mate that is entirely possible could be made impossible if you didn't drag the parts into roughly the correct place beforehand. It's not a massive assembly and it's not massively complicated geometrically. I took up Solidworks to do a simple furniture system design. Caveat - I know it's probably not the worst given the wide range of applications it can be used in, from fluids to heat to PCB etc etc.
