FirstCadLIbrary User's Request

[Ed Sparks]

In an effort to improve the FirstCadLibrary (http://www.firstcadlibrary.com), I'd like some feedback concerning the version(s) of Inventor that you are using. Thanks :)

Any other feedback and constructive ideas are welcome .....

[sanddrag]

Well, this year with the 25 licenses of 8, I don't think anyone on our team uses 5 anymore. I still have it installed just in case, but I haven't used it in a while. I've got a few things (gearboxes) built up in 5, but I suppose I could move them over to 8.

I'm thinking maybe some people with older/slower computers still use the earlier versions, but I don't know.

[Tristan Lall]

I voted for Inventor 7, because when I need Inventor, that's the version that I've got--but I typically use the SAT or STEP files with Pro/ENGINEER 2001 Student Edition, importing and converting as necessary. (Maybe I'll get around to doing a whole project in WildFire eventually....)

But that's just me personally, and not necessarily the team(s).

[jdiwnab]

While this is likley to change, the computers at out school can just barely run Inventor 5. They run it so badly that I couldn't do anything complicated with them. I ended up (with permission) installing Inventor 8 on my personal computer and left it at school most of the season, modeling and the like. We are working on getting awsome computer and either using all the Inventor 8 licenes and getting more, or buying about 32 copies of Inventor 9 or 10.

On a sadder note (and a little off topic), I don't know if there will be a model of our robot next year. I tried to drum up enthusiam and teach Inventor. But no one was interested... Only I really know Inventor, and only about 2 juniors know 3D CAD. So it may be that it doesn't matter or 617.

[Ed Sparks]

Well, this year with the 25 licenses of 8, I don't think anyone on our team uses 5 anymore. I still have it installed just in case, but I haven't used it in a while. I've got a few things (gearboxes) built up in 5, but I suppose I could move them over to 8.

I'm thinking maybe some people with older/slower computers still use the earlier versions, but I don't know.

I may be mistaken, but I believe the 25 seats of Inventor R8 are actually an education release that have a 1 year time limit. I'm pretty sure I read this somewhere in the documentation. We have not installed our seats yet because I want to set up a class for the off season.

[Matt Krass]

Me and our only other CAD guy use SolidWorks 2005, so we're importing the IGES/STEP/SAT stuff, but we also use our Inventor license to take advantage of i-Parts.

[jdiwnab]

I may be mistaken, but I believe the 25 seats of Inventor R8 are actually an education release that have a 1 year time limit.

You are right. They will last for a year. But FIRST sends out a new version every year. If they don't, most teams will be without Inventor. I think that FIRST can get 25 seats of Inventor for a year for less than the 10 seats of Inventor that don't expire. and it almost forces people to register again.

[Cory]

I lost one of my discs for 7 :(

So now I use 6.