GC 5.9

[Sir Sam]

Ya pretty much just worked with ProE/Gambit and Fluent, I didn't like working with Gambit much, thought Fluent was a little more friendly.

 

Right now my current project is learning solidworks, I know ProE in and out, and many things are similar, but I still need to run through all the solidworks material I can do bring up that same proficiency level.

[terrawombat]

When I was a grad student, the school gave me a full version (not the student edition) of Solidworks 2008 Premium and I still have it on my laptop. I fire that up about once every three months and just model a random project or two to keep from forgetting all of the functions. I love SolidWorks and every day I use the software in the office (TurboCAD) is a painful and rough day. I find it pretty hilarious that the initial cost of Fluent with a year worth of tech support was near $75,000, but out office can't dish out $20,000 to get a few seats of SolidWorks AND we get one of the cheapest CAD software money can buy (I think TurboCAD is like $170 a seat). We would get SO much more use out of SW than Fluent. I maybe run 6-10 Fluent models per year while we probably put out 50-100 drawings per year, but oh well, I'm not the boss...

[Sir Sam]

I've got a full version of SW 2010 right now.

 

Problem is I'm in the middle of a hard drive failure, I have the new drive up and running with my OSX partition, but my windows partition has apparently suffered a failure and I can't get it to load/or copy to the new drive. Glad I got the new drive up and my precious data copied over, but windows is still aggravating me. Might see about updating from XP to 7 now.

 

YARG! I get the feeling I'm going to be reinstalling windows yet again.