2. If you want to engage in automobile design, you must learn catia, which is a high-end software widely used in large-scale complex assembly design. SolidWorks and catia are products of Dassault France. SolidWorks is a high-end 3D design software for Dassault to suppress Siemens UG and PTC proe. Catia is Dassault's high-end software, which is used by Boeing, Airbus and other companies that manufacture complex and large components.
SolidWorks software is easy to learn and easy to use, and it is the mainstream 3D software in the world. SolidWorks is the world's first 3D design software based on windows platform launched in 1995 after the resignation of R&D vice president of PTC Company, which is much better than proe objectively, although most engineers who use proe don't admit it. SolidWorks has become the mainstream 3D design software in foreign countries, and China Aerospace has also purchased a large number of SolidWorks software in China. Almost all private enterprises use SolidWorks for product design.
Because proe software was developed in 1980s, proe is a 3D design software for experts and researchers. It takes a long time to learn and use proe for product design, unlike SolidWorks and other software that can be quickly mastered and applied in work. This is the fatal flaw of proe. Many people who come into contact with proe think that proe is very powerful because it is complicated. In fact, mainstream 3D design software such as proe, SolidWorks and ug all have similar functions. You can do it, so can I. In fact, SolidWorks software is definitely more powerful. SolidWorks not only integrates CAD, mold design, CAM and other modules, but also integrates cosmosworks finite element analysis module, which allows more engineers to optimize the design conveniently.
Let me briefly talk about why proe software is widely used in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta. Proe is more widely used than SolidWorks in these two places, not because proe software is better than SolidWorks. But because the companies in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta are mostly Taiwan Province companies, there are very few European and American companies. These companies in Taiwan Province Province are all doing 0DM or OEM, and their customers are mainly large companies in Europe and America, and most of these European and American companies use proe software, because SolidWorks came out in 1995. Before SolidWorks appeared, these European and American companies mainly used proe for product design. Unless the engineers of these European and American companies who used the proe software are all dead, the engineers of these companies will definitely use the proe in their work. Therefore, the companies that used the proe software will still widely use the proe, and the Taiwan Province companies that OEM these European and American companies also widely use the proe. Engineers who have used proe software for N years are unlikely to change to a new design software. Therefore, proe is widely used in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta.
But now many companies that used proe have started to buy SolidWorks, because SolidWorks is cheap, powerful and easy to learn and use.
The feeling of using SolidWorks is that you spend more time on design, and the feeling of using proe is that you spend more time on drawing. If these two softwares are proficient, you will feel this way.
This is my family's opinion, and it will definitely be attacked by proe fans.
In fact, no matter what kind of software it is, it is all aided design software. When you design a product, you need more professional knowledge besides using these softwares skillfully. An American professor also pointed out that structural design engineers are now in danger of relying on design software. One of his papers means that young engineers rely too much on and trust design software and finite element analysis software to solve structural design problems independently because the results provided by these softwares are not necessarily correct.
I believe that in the future, 3D design software will come to by going up one flight of stairs, that is, the operation will become more and more simple, and even you may not be a mechanical major. As long as you have ideas and creativity, you can make an imaginary model product through 3D software. Can you believe it? That's for sure, because these softwares are all tools, and you can't put the cart before the horse. They will certainly become simpler and smarter. I believe that some people in the future will be surprised if they happen to see this article of mine. Why am I so prescient? Hehe, 3D design software will become simpler and simpler.