Poor CAD system

“Poor CAD system”

Written on: 07/08/2012 by Izak

I've been working with NX for almost 4 years now and the program still annoys me every day. Before this I’ve worked with Solid edge and Inventor which are 10 times more user friendly. But even when you get used to the system and the complicity of the functions it is still far from nice to work with. You need expensive courses to start, otherwise it will take you months to understand things. They say it can handle big assemblies. But I followed a course for that and did all what is possible but it keeps very slow to work with big assy’s. The worst application is Drafting. It looks like they got stuck in the 90’s with developing this part of the software. Nothing works intuitive and it is terribly slow. And I really don’t have a slow work station. If you have the choice, don’t buy it. It is a rip off. Siemens also asks loads of money for the licenses and even then you keep running into features you would like to use for which you need another license. Unfortunately can I not convince my boss that there are many better and much cheaper CAD packages on the market.