[AT] OT Computers and programs

[Dennis Johnson]

James,

I was able to do a basic ProE course a few years ago, and had the blessing of being able to play with it a little to draw some simple tank. I was high enough up in management that I never was able to develop any proficiency with it. Now that I retired, I ended up with a So9lid Works 2014 program on my laptop, and I need to take thee time to do tutorials and then start drawing some projects I want to see our company develop. Takes time and motivation to stay with it.
For simple stuff I use AutoCAD Lt. it works fine for 2D drawings.
My son used one of the ACAD clones for some stuff, but it seems like it lasts so long and then something happens where it no longer works. Many times it may be computer crashed and then you loose the program with the crashed computer.

Dennis


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On Jul 27, 2019, at 9:14 AM, James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com<mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>> wrote:

I have a free version of DraftSight on this laptop. DraftSight was a brilliant move by the folks that own SolidWorks to put a big hurt in Autodesk. A couple of years ago I used DraftSight to redraw a very large single surviving paper copy of the hydraulic circuit of a 1200 ton hydraulic press. The file was a dwg file and could be opened and edited with AutoCAD.  I used my laptop because I did not have admin privileges to load DraftSight on my work desktop. I was able to store the resulting  file on the server.

My DraftSight will now operate only when I am online. The official notice is that the free versions will quit operating in 2020.

I do own AutoCAD 2000, the last version you can own. I run it on a home desktop under windows 7 XPMODE.. It will not load under Windows 10. That is inconvenient.

[James Peck] I registered for a ProE class at El Paso Community College to start in early 2000. When I got to the first class, it was cancelled due to low enrollment.

[Stephen Offiler] I got into 3D CAD in 1997 with Parametric Technologies Corp's Pro/Engineer software.  It was (disclaimer, I am working from 21-year old memories) originally developed to run on Unix workstations.  It was ported to run under Windows NT, which wasn't exactly the same beast as the consumer-flavored versions of Windows at that time.  Pro/E's user interface suffered from simply being not-Windows, just not as familiar and intuitive - no where close in fact.  It was a lot of work to get proficient with Pro/E.  But at that time my boss was playing a lot of golf with the local Solidworks VAR (value-added reseller, basically the local rep).  Once we were a few years deep into Pro/E, with a growing database of new projects developed under Pro/E plus a lot of conversion from legacy 2D CAD as well as even older manual drawings - we were in DEEP and I resisted the change mightily.  I lost, of course.  We adopted Solidworks in 2002-3, and never looked back.  The UI was fully Windows-compliant and the learning curve was very smooth.  I still run Solidworks pretty much daily and I would highly recommend it.
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