I’m intrigued but confused. What’s the difference between 3DEXPERIENCE and xDesign? Are they the same thing or different? Do you need both or just one or the other? They’re called “packages” so do you need some kind of base install and then choose which package to put on top of it?
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papertowels@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Solidworks is probably the Cisco of cad software, and a license for casual home use is only 48/year
akilou@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
voided@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The 3DExperience package is the classic Solidworks, so it’s purely parametric and has a ton of legacy and advanced features some people need. It also really only runs on Windows, and don’t even bother with Wine lmao xDesign is kind of their cloud-only Fusion competitor. It runs in a browser and has SubD modeling. I haven’t really worked in this one, but I would bet it’s missing features from Desktop Solidworks that would be dealbreakers for a lot of people.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Do you know if you can import and edit STL files with 3d experience?
papertowels@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately I have no clue - my wife’s the one that uses this, not me haha.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I absolutely looove SolidWorks! But I have moved to linux and am hoping to find something like it without resorting to wine or some such.
philpo@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Solidworks doesn’t do Linux. Period. We tried all options. Solidedge does Linux under the very right circumstances.
Fusion does it, but is shit with even more shit after every update.
FreeCAD is sadly also completely unusable for a semiprofessional or professional use and so… Linux and CAD do not mix well at the moment. It’s the only reason I still have a dual boot atm.
KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
BricsCAD is pretty good on Linux
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s depressing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge so the rest of us don’t have to figure this out the hard way.