Re: SolidWorks - or Ironcad???

At 03:19 PM 6/27/2001 -0400, Peter Renolds wrote:

Two years ago, I evaluated both and found Ironcad to be much easier and

>more intuitive (and hence productive) than Solidworks or Solidedge.

I have heard a lot of good things about Ironcad. For me (in my day job
role) SW was a corporate-wide decision. We have all our plastic parts
rapid prototyped (stereolithography) and SW does a good job there. In our
prototype shop we use Mastercam, and MC8.1 reads the native SW files (it
may also with other formats) so there is no translation involved.

SW is also not the same program as two years ago (or even last year...)
There have been major advances in functionality (especially lofting and
sheet metal) as well as user interface.

But you are right on in your statement that productivity is the bottom
line! I'm glad you have found Ironcad to your liking, because a progam
you're enthusiastic about will serve you much better than one you just
endure using (don't ask me about Autocad... ;-)

Best regards,

Randy

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