I also went the two BS route in college, though I did not graduate top of class. I didn't study hard enough I suppose.
To answer your question you need to identify what it is you want out of life. Money is a tool to enjoy life. You also want to derive satisfaction from what it is you do at work...
The bottom line, I suppose is economics, the dollar is a nice common metric. Obviously, if you work closely with a fabricator, or you fabricate the item yourself, knowing the tooling and capabilities that exist can save you a lot of money.
If you send out a print to be bid on by several people...
Solidworks, is a tool, nothing more. That said, its a complex tool with a lot of hidden "features" and ways of doing things. After using AutoCad and its solid modeling and moving to SW I greatly prefer SW for modeling. For 2D its still inferior to ACad. Solidworks is an excellant time saver...
Its sort of goofy and I think bad practice, for one version of a software to rebuild a model or drawing differently from another version of software.
Basically, it means you really can't trust the software as you upgrade if loft and sweeps change from version to version. It would be different...
Even buying a copy of some cheap 2d software like AutoCad LT or something similar will save you and your company a lot of time. Talk your employer into a $200 purchase.
We have had a few parts, very important ones though, made in SW2001 SP 6 and they don't rebuild in any other version. So Ed's problem is definitely not unique.
Imagine that. -1^2 = 1!!! I never knew! Thanks for the math lesson.
The squared value doesnt mean too much its an intermediate step. Look, what is so complicated and bizarre about asking whether or not SW will give signed answers for displacement? I guess I should have used the term...
Sorry for the ambiguity. What I want to know is why is it that when I use the measurement tool Delta X,y,z are always positive. Distance formula is ((x2-x1)^2+(y2-y1)^2+(z2-z1)^2)^1/2. x2-x1 etc are the deltas of the variables. Sometimes they evaluate to be a negative number. So why is it that...
Is there any way to get distance measuremeants to show the proper sign? Solidworks always returns the absolute value of Delta x,y,z instead of the proper value.
In SW2004, with a test loft, when I checked Maintain Tangency it did not show the guidelines. That said do your loft profiles when lofted without guidelines show any lines?
Its not the fact that monitors display additively with a RGB or derivative color space and print in a subtractive such as CMYK or CMYKOP space but the fact that the light in your enviroment and the settings on your device vary.
For example with a monitor you can adjust color temperature...
You need devices and softare that have a color management system, I believe its called. This helps to match colors on different devices that use different color spaces and methods for generating those colors. Not all displayed colors on a monitor can be printed with standard inks and not all...
That's right.
Or rather there is better software for 2d then Solidworks. Solidworks has some text ability but I am not going to use Solidworks as a word processor.
I don't think licensing should be mandated for several reasons.
1. It would stifle innovation.
Actually, that's my only reason. Plus, since engineering is infinitely varied how do you determine what is vital for competence? Is it a certain level of math ability? The ability to read...
