SWW13: Wednesday Morning
Not sure what that’s about.
First public showing of eDrawings for Android, demoed on Nexus 7.
Kristen Wilson:”eDrawings on Android…Only applause during the partner commercial”
eDrawings on Android today getting a lot of tweets
Top 10 requests: (from Lou Gallo)
1. Make rebuild time faster
2. True backward compatibility
3. Slot mate
4. Cylindrical mates need an option to lock rotation
5. Provide a version of the eDrawings mobile app for Android devices
6. Option for equal spacing on linear patterns
7. Default concentric mate for axis to cylindrical surface
8. External thread wizard for all thread types
9. Draw a line segment starting from the midpoint
10. Create auxiliary line for dimensioning angles
2014 What’s New
angular ordinate dimensions
Order Independent Transpacency
Sunlight Appearance and Animations
Network Rendering Animations
see-through renders
circuit works…
It’s a joke, guys, just a joke.
slots in hole wizard
path length sketch constraint
fixed length spline
replace sketch entities
UI themes
edrawings with augmented reality…
explode rotation
sheet metal corner gussets
lofted bend transitions
adding more touch centric features for Win8 and tablet usage.
eDrawings for Android targeted for Summer release (which year?)
I should add that there were 2 Catia classes in the breakout sessions this year. One on Tuesday and one on Wednesday. They both look like sales demos to me. If anyone attended these or has specific knowledge about them, please chime in. The two sessions were Catia Composites and Catia for “creative people”.
The tweets were actually really interesting at first. It’s always cool to hear about something new and exciting. I guess ditching the b-spines are the way to go.
Wednesday general session video: http://t.co/Gs7S3XyI
Minus of course the 2014 business, but the sales demos are still in there. ;o)
@matt
Catia’s splines really suck compared to Solidworks. you can’t even tweak them using control polygon or even display it. at least not in “generative shape design” workbench which is considered high-end engineering surfacing package in Catia. Its sketcher spline is even worse. You have zero control over degree or spans.pretty rudimentary i’d say.
@Kevin De Smet
Kevin, I think this is the tweet you were talking about. I’m not sure where Daniel got the “ditched d-splines” thing. And the “Dee” spline part really threw me off. Maybe he just imagined that was what SW was doing. It’s not hard to come to the wrong conclusion. SolidWorks intentionally avoids giving users enough information to get a clear idea of what’s going on. I like Mark B, but he’s just following orders here. He wants to clear up the confusion, but he isn’t allowed to do it.
My guess would be that the style spline is an entirely different kind of spline, possibly borrowed from Catia. In addition to regular SW splines. I’ll be interested to see what it is, but I’m not counting on any usable information short of being able to use it myself. And of course the video for the SW2014 what’s new is not going to be made available, so we can’t verify what was said.
It’s a shame that SolidWorks is more afraid of competition than they are committed to their customers. Thanks Mark for trying.
@Mark Biasotti
Ditched b-splines and invented something new and better is what one twitter post said, I find that somewhat odd.
I would be thinking more along the lines of standard b-splines but allowing the user control over the spline degree? is it more along those lines?
@Mark Biasotti
Thanks, Mark.
Hi Guys,
The new Style Spline that many of you saw during the Wed. 2014 reveal – I can not comment on much of it because we are still in development on it, but I can say that it will be very useful for creating complex profiles that are not possible with the thru-point spline with a high degree of continuity. It does not replace thru point spline but is an alternative. Also, it will be much more attune to Industrial Designers coming from Rhino and Alias etc.
Regards
Mark
@ralphg
Even I think Solid Edge has Mechanical Concept Designer FULLY INTEGRATED INSIDE TEH APP!!!
@Dan Staples
Dan,
I think the rotational explode stuff is when you explode something along an arc. Not sure about the style spline stuff.
from italian blog: Style Spline (alos sketchs a linear path like the line tool and all can be used to modify the spline)
and here…https://twitter.com/MegaHertz604/status/294092802361552896/photo/1
I think it may be a spline that sits on top of the curvature comb, joining the ends, allows you to control curvature transitions. Just a guess.
@Billy Oliver
Honestly not sure what “rotational exploded views” refers to. Anyone know?
PS> What is the scoop on the new “style spline” or is it just a term on a slide?
A company that can implement grand new functionality quiclky could probably fix bugs. We are living with five year old simple bugs.
@Dan Staples
Also Dan, how long has SE had rotational exploded views ?
@Ryan
You would be surprised at how fast coding goes these days. A CAD vendor I work with junked a beta last year, because there were too many complaints. New beta came out two months later, and the software will still ship roughly on time.
Of course, the “new” functions might already be in the competitor’s MCAD software, as Dan Staples points out.
@Glenn Schroeder
Solid Edge has had Angular Ordinate dimensions since V14 in 2003 — just saying… 🙂
@Glenn Schroeder
Glenn- Have you ever tried creating a Library Feature for slots? You can set up a table of parameters to edit the slot values.
I’m anxious to see how the slot wizard will work. I’ve been asking for one for a while. That’s the only thing I see from the What’s New that I’ll use, but I can see that the ordinate angle dimensions would be helpful for some people.
@ralphg
“poach ideas and release them first”? C’mon if a software company can do that in such a short time frame you better be very, very concerned for your survival.
Now if you say that they can provide the marketing and sales ammunition to offset the “new” features then I see your point..but definetly not developing and implementing new code.
It’s funny, they ditched b-spline and invent sth new :)) so why is it called Style Spline?
What’s this talk about ditching b-splines??
It was a short list and further “rounding the corners” on existing features. eDrawings for Android was the highlight to me. (can do without the 3dvia augment reality BS..)
One of Solidwork Corp’s tactics at these events is to show maybe 1/2 or 1/3 of the the enhancements planned for the next release of the software. The rest are announced when the software is announced officially at the end of the summer.
The reason for being shy is to keep competitors like Autodesk and Siemens PLM from poaching ideas and releasing them first. Inventor typically ships March-April and Solid Edge in July-August, a few months before Solidworks in September-October.
Guys-
Having several years experience with working with software Product Managers and the users to filter and create an enhancement list for user voting (NX Design/Assy SIG Chair) I have to say that those are some seriously weak user enhancement request. I was hoping to see something serious like the ability to dynamically update a part that was been modified in a different SW window…not all these nickel and dime type enhancement that don’t look at any design workflow processes to increase overall productivity or the integration of features to other “modules”/ 3rd party packages….c’mon line at mid-point…seriously folks..aren’t there some serious enhancements you want to make..the ability to apply features that CAM systems (pick two or three main ones) can pick up and identify. How about smart PMI or the ability to write to JT?- now an ISO standard. I’d add the ability to direct editing (Sync Tech fashion) but everyone thinks you already have that-not.
Yeah, I bet. You get those at most user groups. Remember, the partner’s pay a premium for their “level” of partnership and one of the perks is a 3-5 minute slot at the meetings to “talk” about themselves. Most user groups that I’ve been to disperse them through out the general sessions and not in one chunk. Do it one chunch is dangerous because you can decide to have afew extra drinks the night before and skip the morning GS.