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Any Pelicanheads use SolidWorks?
I need a CAD/CAM project finished due to vendor flakiness.
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PM'd ya.
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Bill, I had a SolidWorks program written for my TypeIV VW sump plate/sendin unit project. When I took it out for bid, the majority of the machine shops wouldn't touch it. Either they didn't want/use SW, or they would preffer to write their own. After reviewing the process, I can see there is more than one approach to each project that will produce the same product. I ended up writing the whole project off. The SW fees were totally waisted and contributed to the project's demise.
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SW '03 and '04 here. Let me know if you need any help.
Milt - odd that the machine shop didn't like it ... pretty universal stuff. CAM should take just about anything - even IGES or STEP which are the true universal standards.
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Yeah Milt, what 935 said. SW doesn't write tool-path code; that would be more machine specific, and would be generated from a Solid-model (such as SW) in a program other than SW.
Otherwise, SW is great for producing drawings. If a machine shop can't read a drawing, you likely don't want them on your proect anyway.
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