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FLYINFOOL
Veteran
Location: Cudahy, WI

I have been a design engineer for 27 years.
I started with paper and pencil, then Acad 10 thru current, Mechanical desktop, IronCad, CadKey, and now Inventor 5.3 thru 8.0.
It seams that Solid Works and ProE are what most local places are now looking for.
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of Solid Works and/or ProE to use at home to teach myself how to use them so that I can add SW & PE to my resume. I would prefer not to have to spend $5K for it.

Thanks
Jeff
06-25-2004 Over year old.
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superdave420
Senior Heliman
Location: Sunnyvale, CA. USA

Just go to Solidworks.Com

Last time I was there I saw a deal for a Free personal edition of solidworks....

Solidworks is the Best and most productive 3D solid modeling softare I have ever used. I ditched my $14,000 seat of PRO/e for the $5,000 seat of Solidworks

There other places you could go but I don't think I can talk about them on this forrum
06-25-2004 Over year old.
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Bjornholmene
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Solid Edge

Solid Edge is also a fast lerning and easy to understand CAD software you should look att...
06-28-2004 Over year old.
 
 
K-Lo
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Location: Monterrey Mexico

Can solid work process CAM jobs for CNC HAAS Mills?
07-13-2004 Over year old.
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Augusto
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Location: San Diego, CA

K-Lo,

No you need a CAM program for that. The CAM will be able to import solids from solidworks directly or through IGES files and the machining will be generated from the solid.

Good high-end CAMs are GibbsCam, MasterCAM, SurfCAM and others. There are now lower priced ones like OneCNC and BoBCAD but my opinion is that they still need some more time in the market to iron out a few wrinkles they have. All those CAM programs will be able to program a HAAS with the right HAAS PostProcessor that generates the actual G-code that drives the machine. If it uses a Fanuc controller you can just use a generic PostProcessor for the fanuc controller.

There is also a programable PostProcessor called PostHaste that allows you to tweak the G-code output to suit your specific needs for that machine.

Augusto.

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07-13-2004 Over year old.
 
 
K-Lo
Senior Heliman
Location: Monterrey Mexico

Thanks

Do what you can with what you have. Often is more than enough.
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NEBULA
Heliman
Location: Greensboro,NC-USA

Solid CAM

SolidWORKS actually does have a CAM package called SolidCAM and is very good.

P.S. And will easly work with HAAS control, just FYI

P.S.S. NOTE I SAID IT WAS A PACKAGE "that would be an addon" and an expensive one at that. Just answering the guys question.
08-12-2004 Over year old.
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Hockeytown
Veteran
Location: Pontiac, Mi. U.S.A.

Clairification......

'Native' SolidWorks DOES NOT have the abilty to create G code.

SolidCAM and CAMWorks, as well as any of the other more popular CAM software's avaliable are Additional.

The CAM Software partners, as well as any other Add-In's will NOT work with the SolidWorks PE (Personnel Edition).

Thanks,

Darin[color=red]
Hockeytown[/color]
08-12-2004 Over year old.
 
 
Rhyno
Heliman
Location: Napier New Zealand

Have you tried Alibre design? http://www.alibre.com

I'm what Willis was talking about
08-03-2006 Over year old.
 
 
colin8
Heliman
Location: Phoenix, AZ

I took a Solidworks course at a local community college and highly recommend such an approach to anyone wanting to learn 3D design. Solidworks offers a full featured student version for about $200 and the license lasts for 2 years. That's the way I got started. Solidworks is well known as the fastest growing and easiest to learn/use 3D application. As others have mentioned, Alibre is a less expensive alternate that is showing very good promise, even though is has a way to go to reach the maturity of Solidworks. Another reason Solidworks has such a loyal following is they truly listen to their users and the productive and popular suggestions get incorporated in later releases. Expensive, yes, but you get what you pay for.

--Colin--
08-03-2006 Over year old.
 
 
jimwho16
Heliman
Location: Fort Wayne,Indiana-U.S.

Solid Works

Any of you work with Inventor ? I used it for 3 Years up to release 10. With Mechanical Desktop for some apllications. Never messed with Pro-E or Solid Works. Inventor was easy to work with.
08-29-2006 Over year old.
 
 
FLYINFOOL
Veteran
Location: Cudahy, WI

I have been using inventor since V5.3.
I am only trying to teach myself solidworks to be able to add that to my resume.


Jeff Borowski
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08-30-2006 Over year old.
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Havoc
Key Veteran
Location: Ky.

I use inventor also. I really like it. The iparts and ifeatures as well as the ease of driving parts via the spreadsheet make the need for writing VBA programs practically vanish.
08-30-2006 Over year old.
 
 
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