can solidworks ouput production data useful for programming?

[angelito]

this is my first post.
so far I've read some threads looking for reasons to propose a switch from AutoCAD to either SolidWorks or Inventor.
I've also considered PRO/E, but so far I'm only getting negative feedback.

I want to be able to resize one dimension of one part, which would automatically resize the same kind of dimension on all the rest of the parts of an assembly, and output these dimensions in the forms of programming objects or a spreadsheet of some sort, that can be reusable for another program.
Do both Solidworks and Inventor do this?

 

[MrPickles]

SolidWorks will do it, if you want it to. For the output forms, you would have to do some programming yourself, and Inventor would be no different in this case.


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[Spinnerman]

We're doing it. ProE didn't comunicate well with our CAM programs when we tried several years ago. We've since changed to SolidWorks. Manufacturing pulls the model into the cam software (we're using EdgeCam) and then write the program. There are some issues when they use assy models that they are working through.

Living in my own 3D world