I hate not being able to double click on something in the tree and have it become active. Generating reference geometry (planes.etc) takes me multiple attempts to get it do to do what I want. I hate having to press escape after every command. Not having tabs to navigate when multiple files are open is so unintuitive.
AUTODESK INVENTOR 2015 CRASHING DRIVERS
My 3D mouse lags when rotating yet it's buttery smooth using my middle click (PC specs are more than adequate and drivers are up to date and dynamic highlighting is disabled). Everything has jagged edges (even when I crank up the refinement settings to max). Your "it feels like I'm fighting it to do what I want" sums up my experience perfectly. I work at a company that uses exclusively SW and I despise it. It’s just slightly more inconvenient in inventor.Īlthough I'm sure others will disagree. The score could go up and down depending on how it affects behavior I haven’t gotten to compare. Which for my office is pretty important.Īll in all inventor 8/10 solidworks 8.5/10. I haven’t tried to create a dwg in solidworks, I don’t even know if it can.
As far as inventors API I’m trying to trigger a different titleblock on a second page and it is really hard I’ve written iLogic in inventor and haven’t written any coding into solidworks so I don’t know how these compare either. Shrinking to fit is great but I’ve never seen an instance where stretching text to fit is useful. You can stretch/shrink text to fit where if your text is either too big or too small for a text box it will shrink or stretch to fit as necessary. I will say inventors api and titleblock need some work. I’ve made titleblocks in inventor, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried in solidworks so I don’t know how they compare. This is probably personal preference and a lack of knowledge on its true purpose.Ī couple notes about things I haven’t done in solidworks that I have in inventor. If you have two parts with the same name it tells the the assembly where to find it but when I’m in a hurry it just seems clunky to do. This one is mostly on me, but I don’t think projects are terribly intuitive. I feel planes are easier to create in solidworks. Solidworks allows you to cut the negative space of a sketch.
AUTODESK INVENTOR 2015 CRASHING SOFTWARE
The two software are essentially the same from my point of view with inventor lacking some mild functionality I wish it had. If I never have to use SolidWorks again, I would die a happy man.ĮDIT: Thank you to the Autodesk team for making a great product. I'm not a novice, I have a dozen patents or patent applications. If you choose to use version from the Vault, changes made to version '3' will be overwritten. "You have been editing version '3' of the file 'xxxx.sldprt'. I need to start keeping a running log of the ridiculous errors that I encounter when using it. I've had SolidWorks crash more on me in the last week, than I have Inventor in using it since 2014. I equate it to running a few miles in sand sure I can do it, but it's going to take so much more effort than it readily should. I can accomplish what I want, but I just feel like it takes me 5 times longer. I swear if I could have a blood pressure monitor take readings every 30 seconds, it would be very apparent when I boot it up and starting using. I shouldn't have to sketch on multiple planes and use intersecting curves just to get a reasonable 3D sketch. In SW, I can move the point to a location (seriously, like 2-3mm away from where it was), and then the point is in the middle of nowhere close where I wanted it to be (yeah yeah, I shouldn't have to constrain everything while I'm trying to just do a rough sketch for the software to be intuitive to use). Inventor is good about when you move the view to certain +/- angles, it assumes you're just trying to move the point in one axis. Worse is that if I just want to move a single point in a single direction, it doesn't constrain the other axis. Where Inventor makes good assumptions about what the user wants to do, SW just tries snapping onto everything (necessitating turning that off). Splines in 3D sketches are so terrible to work with. It feels like I'm fighting the software to do what I want at every turn. But goddamn if it isn't so un-intuitive to use.
I know that my comfort with Inventor is because it's what I initially learned, and I keep that in mind whenever I'm frustrated with SW. It crashes so much, that if I didn't know any better, I would say I had written it. SW is the goddamn clunkiest, biggest piece of trash software I've ever used. We had one other semi-ME, and he already had SolidWorks setup, so that became the standard. My biggest regret at my current company, is not pushing harder to move to Inventor when I first came on board. I've been using Inventor since 2014, and still try to use it to this day.
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