Sujet : Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better)
De : blockedofcourse (at) *nospam* foo.invalid (Don Y)
Groupes : sci.electronics.designDate : 18. Jun 2025, 18:55:20
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On 6/18/2025 10:23 AM, Crash Gordon wrote:
On 6/17/2025 8:49 PM, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
Especially when you are not even able to BUY that software, only rent. Not
just it gets extremely expensive after couple of years...
Back in the early aughts I worked for a company that bought me a Solidworks license. At the time, one seat allowed for three installations: One on the work desktop, one on a home desktop, and one on a laptop -- with the proviso that only one instance would be active at any time. This was explicitly spelled out in the license, and afaik was not enforced by any kind of "phone home" tech.
I'm in a similar situation (each client had their own idea of the "right"
tools so I have a sh*tload of them).
The company I was working for went bust, and I still have and use my "home desktop" version of Solidworks. I have to keep an XP machine around to run it on, which is not difficult for me (you should see my garage! :-) but I believe I can convert it to a VM without breaking the license check, and that would run on modern hardware.
You may need to spoof a MAC address if nodelocked to that. It's possible to
really fingerprint the hosting system and make portability difficult. But,
they want you to USE their products, not throw your hands up in frustration
because you added RAM to a box or upgraded the CPU, replaced a disk drive,
etc.
I'm sure SW has been extensively updated in the past couple of decades, but the 200x version I have does everything I need.
Exactly. Find something that does the job, that has a set of bugs that
you know and can work-around, and leave the feeping-creaturism to folks
with more time than brains! ("Oooooo! A new update! Let's see what
THIS one does...")
By far, the biggest bit of inertia comes from the libraries (electronic
components, packages, mechanisms, etc.). These are often not portable
from one vendor/product to another.
OTOH, its likely that noone here uses a huge variety of "parts" on
a given design so rebuilding a library from scratch is more of a
nuisance than an impediment. You can incrementally rebuild a library
as you take on new designs.
[Big companies with "standards" are more likely to benefit from library
portability; if they've many thousand parts built (to satisfy a variety
of users and projects), then recreating them each time a new tool comes
/en vogue/ can be a significant time $ink.]
| Date | Sujet | # | | Auteur |
| 17 Jun 25 |  SolidWorks is cool, sort of | 52 | | john larkin |
| 17 Jun 25 |  Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 50 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 18 Jun 25 |   Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 49 | | john larkin |
| 18 Jun 25 |  Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 48 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 9 | | Sergey Kubushyn |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 6 | | Don Y |
| 18 Jun 25 |  Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | john larkin |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 4 | | Sergey Kubushyn |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 3 | | Don Y |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | Sergey Kubushyn |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | Don Y |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | Crash Gordon |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | Don Y |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 38 | | john larkin |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 37 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 18 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 36 | | john larkin |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 35 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 34 | | john larkin |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 23 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 22 | | john larkin |
| 20 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 21 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 20 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 20 | | john larkin |
| 21 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 19 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 21 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | Don Y |
| 21 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | john larkin |
| 21 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | piglet |
| 21 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | Don Y |
| 21 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | john larkin |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 22 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 12 | | candycanearter07 |
| 22 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 8 | | john larkin |
| 22 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 4 | | Jeroen Belleman |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | john larkin |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | john larkin |
| 22 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | The Natural Philosopher |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | john larkin |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 3 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | Don Y |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | john larkin |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 10 | | Lasse Langwadt |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 9 | | john larkin |
| 20 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 3 | | Lasse Langwadt |
| 20 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
| 20 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | john larkin |
| 20 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 5 | | The Natural Philosopher |
| 22 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 3 | | Don Y |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 2 | | Crash Gordon |
| 23 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | Don Y |
| 22 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better) | 1 | | john larkin |
| 19 Jun 25 | Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of | 1 | | Joe Gwinn |