Solidworks has been a go to software for me since 2001. Design software has failed a large part of the market and will continue to fail a large part of. In this, it joins the small but growing club of cam applications that run inside of the solidworks environment. Another cam application joins the club solidworks legion. Its taken years for many cam users to realize that standalone cam is no longer able to keep up with many of the benefits of running inside something like solidworks. Fusion 360 is working to help you design differently.
Were building fusion to be a comprehensive product development system. Certified gold products are bestinclass, thirdparty software solutions within solidworks. Jon banquersolidworks is consuming every available minute of my learning time right now. Solidworks will offer a new cloud based product that uses the catia v6 kernel. I wrote about dick last june, in the article a resilient modeling strategy. Is it too early to start requesting enhancements for visual cam 1. Its pretty nice, but i doubt anybody in the shop will take the time to actually learn it. Shortly after solidworks world, i spoke with solidcams founder and ceo, emil. Jon banquer must have a doomsday bunker, he is so negative. May 21, 2014 jon banquers outspoken views, and a penchant for scathing remarks, it would be easy to dismiss him as a hothead. What you should knowexport from solidworks into mastercam. The venerated old solidworks usenet newsgroup which was started in 1997 has been on a long downward slide. Unfortunately the legacy code software components used in products like solidworks, solid edge st, etc. They make the software even easier for new users to learn and for casual operators to use.
Although you can import an stl,obj or vrml file from the scanner to the other solidworks packages also or any other cad system that can handle these files many of the vars have purchased the scanner for demo purposes. Solidworks has developed their scan to 3d software to work with this scanner in their office premium. The cad insider dassault and solidworks not talking. Mastercam x9 should be available in the next few months. So get over yourself and find a new hobby like software developement since you know so much. Ultimately, he sees virtually all machines being run by cam software, or at least. Were building fusion because for 25 years the industry has focused on parametric solid modelingbut geometry is only part of the solution. The reason for the evaluation is to find the best cam product that runs inside of solidworks for. Customers are expected to get new software with a new interface, different file types and more. Met with the arizona var for solidworks on thursday.
Solidworks has no direct modeling tools and i find solid edge st much better because our shop mostly works with nonnative solids. I know those that manage the blogosphere for cad companies who wince under banquers prolific and sharp criticism. Sep 14, 20 less manual geometry extraction saves time. Solidworks 2007 looks to have addressed every issue i have had with solidworks for many years a. Im sure a lot of cad industry professionals do just that. Its the kind of quality reporting i have come to expect from you. The application continue reading another cam application. Over the last weeks i have been watching a thread in the solidworks forum and thought we would set a few things straight. Jon banquer is well known in the cadcam community for his daily presence on some of the most popular newsgroups. Egs bought the software from bridgeport in 1995 when it was known as ez featuremill to run the ez trak system they had on their manual mills. What the media tweeted about solidworks mechanical.
Siemens solid edge us fud marketing is a poor excuse for going after. I can honestly see many solidworks users actually dumping solidworks for inventor if inventor truly had a major surfacing advantage over solidworks. Jan 31, 2012 featurecam and delcam for solidworks 2012. How gibbscam lost marketshare because of how they do business. Solidworks founders start new company solidworks forums.
By not acting sooner, dassault has caused themselves a ton of problems that arent going to go away anytime soon. Im not a fanboi and i know how badly the cadcam business needs to change. If the old guard resisted then dassault should have acted to remove them much sooner. Jon banquer cadcam technology leaders group on linkedin. The catiaplm software is entirely scalable, and sw would make a welcome addition, if that was the stated purpose.
Hsmworks is in denmark, autodesk will keep selling its software, and will add the. How gibbscam lost marketshare because of how they do. Somebody needs to fire this idiot and bring back dave thomson who started the emastercam. Worse, tyler robinson then lies about what he does when posting on the independent mastercam forum and on the out house solutions emastercam forum he tries to control. In my opinion if solid chaining worked well in mastercam there would be no reason to have to. In response to jon banquer comments regarding solidcam. Solidworks 20 will launch as legacy software originally posted by randall, graphicspeak dassault systemes is committed to building a nextgeneration 3d design platform to replace solidworks. Camworks 2014 makes it easier to create features youtube. Nov 18, 20 what was missing from the series was a final chapter. Dec 19, 2011 camworks learning assembly mode tutorial jon banquer. Reality is solidworks owns the market and one of the reasons is because of so many cam choices that run inside of solidworks. Aug 25, 2007 the venerated old solidworks usenet newsgroup which was started in 1997 has been on a long downward slide.
What was missing from the series was a final chapter. I think solidworks v6 is an attempt to solve this problem. Vx is not being developed and marketed like i feel it should be. Siemens plm software has announced that solid edge st5 will be available soon. The founder of solidworks announced the news in an email to employees. The reason nobody at at solidworks, onecnc, gibbscam, cnc software, etc. Solidworks founder jon hirschtick, for the last 14 years a member of the executive board of dassault systemes, today announced his immediate resignation. You export a file then open it in solidworks to start your detail design. Somebody needs to fire this idiot and bring back dave thomson who started the emastercam forum.
In order to open a configuration in a solidworks file it must be an active configuration. In good times you upgrade and in slow times you keep using your older cadcam software. Develop3d featurecam and delcam for solidworks 2012. In reality, its catia a different software for a different user base. You have used the name mastercam user on cnczone the past few months and annoyed many of the sincere users there with your newbie questions and your peevish observations about the software.
Users of other delcam software, such as powershape or powermill, will gain the greatest benefit as many of the new icons have been duplicated from those programs. Those of us who speculate over the goings on in the cad world had long. According to delcam, this new version of their software is called delcam for solidworks and it will be integrated within solidworks. Cam software yearly maintenance is a lot cheaper as opposed to wifey maintenance. Icons are the only major interface change for featurecam 2011. Egs bought the software from bridgeport in 1995 when it was known as ez.
A solidworks committee ensures they can handle the designated tasks and have the resources to keep the solution synchronized when change occur to the solidworks data. Solidworks the company got major flak from bloggers concerned that solidworks v6 the software would replace solidworks the software. Jon banquers outspoken views, and a penchant for scathing remarks, it would be easy to dismiss him as a hothead. In my opinion if more cadcam software programmers were actually machinists first we would have much better cadcam products and i doubt i would be debating the need for full graphical editing control over the toolpath. Go to performance, at the bottom there is a checkbox for use software gl or software open gl, can you check and uncheck this checkbox. Camworks learning assembly mode tutorial jon banquer. I still love modeling in vx but no lathe module, no wire edm module and the fact that solidworks is finally moving in the right direction is enough to get me to go back. Cnc software continues to drag their feet and do nothing about the racism, hatred.
The resilient modeling strategy rms is the brainchild of richard dick gebhard. Jon hirschtick leaves dassault systemes solidworks. When the configuration is inactive the solids data is not included in the solidworks file this isnt so. I fell in love with 3d modeling when i started using solidworks and for mechanical design i am more proficient with it than any other software. The approach to ramming cloud software down a customers throat doesnt seem like it will work for many segements of the market and i think better alternatives are needed. I will be moving back to solidworks after many years of being away.
For 15 years he was a sales rep for solidworks solutions and a cswp. Gal raz on why dassault had to kill solidworks worldcad access. If geometric wants it to come down just ask and i will remove. Delcam is going to demonstrate its new cam system at solidworks world 2010. Other cam companies that i speak with are starting to realize they need their own cad and are doing something about it. What you should knowexport from solidworks into mastercam there is days you could wonder if cad sales people have practiced extra hard on keeping a straight inviting face when they claim that there cad software can import and export any of there competitors formats as if it was an extension of there body. If geometric wants it to come down just ask and i will remove it. There is plenty of talk going on about what people want and need from their design tools. This year, at solidworks world the show, dassault systemes solidworks as the company is now known didnt talk much about solidworks v6 the product, other than to say that theyd talk about it in 20.
If it was surfcam wouldnt be able to bring in all the configuration like you want gibbs to do. This was the first time i ever looked at it and i think ill stick with solidworks. Pete is responsible for mastercam for solidworks which has sold so poorly that cnc software is now giving it away for free when you buy standalone mastercam x9. Open mind is building their own cad despite running inside of both solidworks and autodesk inventor. Sadly, onshape has the same mentality for 3rd party applications that solidworks had when it was founded. Aug 05, 2011 unfortunately the legacy code software components used in products like solidworks, solid edge st, etc. Anyway, my bosses ended up going with the camworks package, and ive been playing with it. In an email to solidworks employees, hirschtick said, this is a difficult decision for me. Sure beats the fanboy nonsense ive grow so accustomed to seeing posted elsewhere.
Jon banquer aug 12, 2007 the program has changed so much in ten years that im still way behind where i need to be. I believe that the software is headed in the right direction with this new release. The failed promise of parametric cad, final chapter. Ive lost track of all the broken promises cadcam companies have made over the many years ive been involved with cadcam. Solidworks v6, a new technology in development by dassault systemes, is based on catia and enovia v6. What its really like using mastercam x2 mr 2 jon, i erased this whole post because it was nothing but crap. The real solidworksthe cad program now used by about 1. Dec 26, 20 jon banquer cadcam technology leaders group on linkedin. Egs changed the name to featuremill and enhanced the software to what it is today. This will be a separate and distinct product from the existing solidworks.
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