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Old October 1st 07, 03:48 PM posted to comp.cad.solidworks,rec.aviation.piloting
jon_banquer
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Default CAD Tool For Design Tiny Aircraft

Ok, I just watched the video, and I barely understand anything, as I
am an ignoramus when it comes to CAD. However, it seems that the "dumb
geometry", as the presenter calls it, allows "dumb dimension-based
editing", but after you are done fiddling with "witness lines, etc.",
you have your model, and nothing else.


It's very important to understand that parametric data does not get
exchanged
between different cad systems. What you get is a "dumb solid" when you
open
your model done in Solidworks in another system like SolidEdge. All
the design
intent / parametrics you established in SolidWorks will be gone.

Now I think I see what TOP meant in his response to your post, about
spaghetti code.


His example is one sided and doesn't give you the downside of
parametric
modeling.

http://management.cadalyst.com/cadma...ID=1&sk=&date=

"KeyCreator is a nonparametric application, but that isn't necessarily
bad. It gives users the freedom to do all kinds of things to a model
that they'd never think of doing in a history-based system."

I use SolidWorks everyday. I don't use KeyCreator. I'm not foolish
enough to think that a parametric / history based approach to modeling
is the only approach or always the right approach and unlike most
others in the SolidWorks newsgroup I'm not a product loyalist. Dana
Hague had some very valid points in his post to you.


Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/bl...mment-76366100





















 




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