Fusion 360 vs Solidworks vs Siemens NX vs Onshape - Best CAD Review 2023 — joshflowers.xyz
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Trying to decide between these CAD systems? Read on, because I have some thoughts and experiences with each that might help you become better informed about what they're each good at. But first, a bit about me. My name's Josh, and I'm an industrial designer with over 15 years CAD experience. I sta

An industrial designer does a write-up on four well-known packages.

  • rami@ani.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    All the positives he has to say about NX could be said about any direct modeling program with robust surfacing tools. Personally I abhor NX and anything it does well I could do better in VISI and at speeds NX could only have wet dreams about.

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Whatever you do, do NOT pirate this software

    Talking about NX. I worked at a place that used UG and then NX. They had a specific supplier that could provide CAD data for their parts as native NX data. Things were fine for a while, but after a software update, designers started getting a weird error telling them to call a specific phone number. That number went to an anti-piracy department at Siemens. The data from the supplier was made with pirated software, and it was slowly infecting the parts database whenever it was used in an assembly.

    As far as I know it didn’t really do anything else, so they just started ignoring the “error”.