![]() I think we’re all basically looking for the same thing: The closing of GrabCAD Workbench has been the sole talk of the water cooler this week for every MechE project I know, FRC and beyond. Well, since I have the director’s attention, may as well shoot my shot. Thank you for talking about our newest technology. Learning a different tool helps build your portfolio.Ĭhief Delphi has showcased so many SOLIDWORKS tutorials and tips over the years. If you have an good internet connection, the apps are worth a try. I’ve been using SOLIDWORKS desktop since 1997. ![]() Next month we will have more videos that use some cool champion robots to show these apps. Collaborative space and bookmarks will be new terms in everyone’s vocabulary. We have a new Welcome app for the first time xDesign user with tutorials and methods. So our cloud cad tools are xDesign xShape xSheetMetal xFrame …. We wanted to simply the cloud cad experience with one design tool. Many schools have SOLIDWORKS desktop so this is why we are providing SOLIDWORKS Connector to the platform ( cloud storage ) with SOLIDWORKS desktop.Īt this time, we are not offering the CATIA apps. SOLIDWORKS is installed on the PC data is stored on cloud or to your PC.īut you cannot run 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS desktop on the same PC. It is a great product and is part of our Maker offer. We wanted to give FIRST teams a 100% cloud solution if they had chrome books, macs, PC, tablets and a good internet connection.ģDEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS requires a windows native PC. I’m happy to hear you like 3DEXPERIENCE SolidWorks. If a team has questions and/or wants to see a real world demo reach out to me.Įdit: seems like there is now an offline mode. Not sponsored by DSS, in fact quite the opposite Generally it’s been as stable as SW ever was… I login, launch SW, and get to work just like I always have. but they have a learning curve that I don’t have time for right now. The other 3DX apps are there - xDesign, xShape etc. I’m the only user in my environment so I haven’t explored many of the features. You can save files locally to desktop, or to 3DX (cloud). This is what DSS calls “3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS” and I do believe they have browser based only SOLIDWORKS too - I’m not sure what - if anything - they are providing to teams like they used to.įor my version, if you lose internet, you get warnings about lost connection and then it stops working. I’m now running 3DX at home with the SOLIDWORKS desktop flavor, it’s a long story… It’s the same exact desktop version of SW that we’re all familiar with, however you have to login to 3DX via web, and then launch the application. I’ve used 3DX extensively at a large company but that’s with the CATIA flavor. If a free or low cost data management solution emerges we might think differently. Our expected plan after today’s announcement is to use Solidworks / GrabCAD through this season and then quickly migrate to Onshape. The simple version of Solidworks PDM is server based not web based so does not meet our needs for students working from home, and their advanced PDM is expensive and much too complicated for our use. I don’t know if there is a way to use their cloud systems for desktop applications, it is not in their advertised literature. Perhaps others have tried it more recently and have more positive experience, I was enthusiastic to try it but found it was really not ready for FRC or industry use. I was quite surprised at how unpolished it all was given how central this is to Dassault’s CAD future, and the existence of Onshape. Also existing Solidworks files could not be imported other than by STEP file, giving it no inherent database advantage over a switch to Onshape. Unfortunately I also found it buggy (freezing), file management awkward at best, documentation and support poor, and difficult to navigate the set of modules to go from part to assembly to drawing (never really got drawings working and couldn’t apply our templates. In general it was a primitive UI compared to up to date Solidworks and involved more “clicking”. The usability was kind of like Solidworks versions 20 years ago, for instance everything needed to start as a sketch and then apply the feature rather than doing it in one step. It was manageable for making simple part models and assemblies, and tested loading a reasonably large assembly on poorly spec’d computer that would otherwise have struggled with Solidworks, so all that was good. Echoing others responses, found it a bit different from the Solidworks UI (first thing to realize is that it is not Solidworks, but based on a different kernel that looks somewhat similar to Solidworks).
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