Solidworks / Inventor

[bartsgb]

Currently i'm a undergraduate in mechanical engineering. For some of my courses i've been working with solidworks and autodesk inventor. I was wondering if anyone has experience creating textures for any of these programs for their designs?

[jonpeter001]

3 years ago when I was last in a postition needing to evaluate and decide on a 3d cad package, the choice was quite easy. 3 years ago solidworks had the tools needed, and inventor was playing catch up. Now 3 years later I'm once again tasked with deciding, but the race seems a lot closer.

My company makes pulleys. The assemblies are small. A typical assembly may only have 8 parts. (adding bearings may bring this up to 50) The variety of sizes of each of those parts is almost endless. Each part we manufacture has almost infinite sizes. Each purchased part like bearings, is one of a hundred or so variations.

I like to automate as much as possible. Every style will be pre done as an assembly with all drawings. When a new job comes in we change every part parameter in an assembly, and have the already done drawing update. Clean it up, and print. (with solidworks this would be done with a design table at assembly level controlling a skeleton sketch and all parts drawn in contect and constrained to the skeleton)

[qcdrus]

made the tutorials use photoshop ,think that is a little bit dur.you can just cheap software buy cheap software capture your screen as the picture and add text ,that is simple and great