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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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