My students got a laugh out of this.
Activating their student licenses the question for
Primary CAD software in use at your school...
-no SolidWorks in the list?
And what is CADKey? Mechanical Desktop? Pro/Engineer? Unigraphics.....
These students were either not born yet or still in diapers when some of this software was still used.
Having used ProEngineer and Unigraphics in recent jobs I can confirm that they are most definitely still extensively used. As for the other two you may be right about it being archaic
I believe it's asking you what other software besides SolidWorks is used. Like AutoCAD or if you are not using any other CAD program select other.
Primary CAD software used in your school is pretty straightforward question.
CADKey - I used that back in the last century.
Pro/E - isn't that now Creo? That is what we use here?
MDT? - Autodesk hasn't sold that product since Feb 2002 and discontinued in 2009.
Maybe the sarcasm in my post was a little too subtle.
I would advise these students to steer clear of any companies using these softwares.
But they say it's so they can be notified of resource updates. I'm assuming they justify this as "we'll let you know when a new translator for (Pro/E) becomes available" (even though they just want your name on a list to sell).
For this question it doesn't help them to know that SW is the only software you're using. They could use to update that list though so they're at least relevant software packages.
Even though the software mentioned might not be current there may be companies migrating from them to SOLIDWORKS. Hell we acquired a company recently that was still using graphite and vellum. I hear there are companies out there that still don't use CAM in their shops.
I think question is there to see where marketing efforts may have paid off.
Just a couple of years ago I worked for a place that still used theirs occasionally, I wouldn't be surprised if they still have it.
Of the software mentioned, I've used ACAD, ACAD Lt, and Mechanical Desktop but very little. Pro/E and Catia I know are used a lot. We got SW in 2006, and at the time we reviewed Inventor also. SW won, but IIRC both systems were very identical far as modeling goes. I do really like SW.
Maybe Solidworks isn't the primary CAD package at your school / business.
I used Cadkey from 93-03. Archaic doesn't even describe it. It's now KeyCreator.
I've used Autocad and Pro-E also. As mentioned, Pro-E is no Creo... and very much in use and is a good CAD package. I would NOT turn down a job just because of the CAD package being used.
It's with this line of thinking that I've gained experience in multiple CAD systems.
Although, I would hate to have to use any 2D design software in this day and age.
What about VersaCad? Was the primary CAD program where I started some 17 years ago...
Once worked at a place with Visual CADD
Mercifully, that was just old legacy data that we would occasionally have to redraw in SW, but was still quite the amusing sideshow to try to navigate.
We use Draftsight for some legacy data, and that's a trip going back to that after using SW.
At least DraftSight is free. As opposed to its counterpart in That One Company's offerings.
What no listing for GMSWORKS, the new name for the GMS program from GRAFTEK???
I wonder what prompted their name change.
Quite the CAD/CAM package back in the 80's.
Anyone remember or used this one???
