What program is really recomanded?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by rc_cola1323

Yeah Cory, but I kinda liked the gui cube thing. Commands are great, used Autocad for 4 years (7th to 10th grade). But the reason I like 3d Cad was itz use of the GUI and workflow to create a better working enviroment.

-RC

I find the keyboard shortcuts faster-it means I can be doing something else with my mouse instead of clicking the corners of a cube.

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Cory

I find the keyboard shortcuts faster-it means I can be doing something else with my mouse instead of clicking the corners of a cube.

Thatz cool Corey, but I would like the funtionality of a cube and i think others would too. Just wondering if Solidworks was planning to include that function.

[mplanchard]

I watched the video you suggested and saw the cube. SolidWorks user interface concentrates on less mouse clicks and less mouse travel. When you design all day long - fractions of a second take time away from the model you are working on. Yes there are the control keys that change your views and others use different mouse pointers. Also, SolidWorks automatically put you in an isometric when you extrude your first sketch.

With that said, if enough uses said they would want a "cube" as an enhancement request, SolidWorks would probably create the functionality because we implement hundreds of these every year.

For the first part of the video, I would instead use the center point rectangle sketch tool - why create a vertical and horizontal center line when you don't have too.

[Kraftyman]

Greetings,

I just started to use Inventor - for the kids sake. I use SolidWorks almost every day and there are two things that will make it fast for anyone.
1) Keyboard short-cuts (an absolute must)
2) A good mouse with a center button.
By pressing on the center button you get the same functionality as the cube without having to move your mouse to the cube. It rotates and then zooms with the center button. I can spin any model and get to the view I need in less than 1 sec - it is just practice. If you plan on using SolidWorks, buy a mouse with a center button!

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Kraftyman

Greetings,

I just started to use Inventor - for the kids sake. I use SolidWorks almost every day and there are two things that will make it fast for anyone.
1) Keyboard short-cuts (an absolute must)
2) A good mouse with a center button.
By pressing on the center button you get the same functionality as the cube without having to move your mouse to the cube. It rotates and then zooms with the center button. I can spin any model and get to the view I need in less than 1 sec - it is just practice. If you plan on using SolidWorks, buy a mouse with a center button!

In fairness, Inventor has the same functionality (pretty much any CAD/CAM program I've seen uses the center button in the same manner).

[Molten]

I may be old school. But the cube kind of annoys me. I don't like things in the display other then the part. With this being said. If this becomes standard I hope they make it so it can be toggled off.

[mplanchard]

When parts start to get more complicated, I find myself using Normal To a particular face if I really want to sketch on an auxillary plane. I use the mouse and the ctrl keys. You can even customize your shortcut keys.

I saw an engineer working on a sole of a sneaker and watched his hands - it looked like he was playing a piano - there were 1000 features and his mouse rarely left the center of the graphics area. Marie