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Old 10-02-2004, 04:40 AM   #3
slang
St Petersburg, Florida
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I appreciate your reply snake. I have heard wonderful things about solidworks but have never used it. As I know this program though, it's more for standalone products and not generally used for large assemblies.

As for UG, it's used everywhere. It's use at GM alone is more than 10,000 seats. Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, Catarpillar, Ingersoll-rand......and thousands of smaller companies that develop pricise and or complex products.....all use UG. It's the most suited cad system for the simultaneous development of large assemblies.

I have more than 10k hours using it and have made hundreds of thousands of dollars working for companies that make everything from automotive sub-systems to medical implants to power tools to injection molded plastic parts to military combat vehicles.

I've been away from working with it though. Away for more than 2 years and I need to know whats new with the program. I need to know someone inside somewhere, one of my old cohorts maybe, to get back into the game. Someone here might also be able to help a slang in need.

I was just hoping on the outside chance that someone here might be working with it now and be able to give me some pointers on getting back in. It looks like a massive refresher course might do the trick. That's going to cost about 5k though. Their traning is not cheap but the certs give you a lot credibility.

If you intend to work with large companies after you graduate, you may ( or may not ) want to look into the capabilites of UG. Not only does it have excellent modeling features, but also has an integrated file manager. It's definately a high end system and the majority of high tech manufacturers that I know of use ProE or Unigraphics.
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