CAD Software...I-DEAS

[jcsolis]

Last semester I took an Engineering Graphics course and the software we used was the I-DEAS by NX..


Somebody has ever used this software and do you know what company use this software???????

[FredGarvin]

The only company I know that used to use it was Ford. When I was there it was the main target of many CAD jockey's scorn.

[AlephZero]

Here's some history: http://www.cadinfo.net/editorial/sdrc.htm

SDRC also produced software for analysing experimental dynamics data (extracting modal parameters from dynamics tests, etc) that was linked into I-DEAS. We used to use the dynamics testing software, but not the CAD part.

It never really moved forwards from the 1980s though, and it got overtaken by new kids on the block.

[mgb_phys]

It's often policy to teach techniques on a system or programming language that isn't used in the real world. The idea is that you start on a level ground whatever you rprevious experience and you can apply what you learnt to any system you eventually use.
Of course it also means the school doesn't have to upgrade and the teachers don't have to learn a new system ;-)

[Andronicus1717]

I-DEAS is pure evil. The most common program families I've seen in industry are Pro-E, AutoCAD, Solidworks and Catia.