Welcome. This post is a follow-up to the Abaqus/CAE User’s Primer for 3DEXPERIENCE. This time though from the perspective of a SOLIDWORKS user who is trying get to grips with 3DEXPERIENCE.
The main reason behind this remains the same. That there is a lot of training looking at SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE. But these tend to look at each program in isolation. While this primer looks at an analysis conducted in both programs and tries to compare and contrast. So that as a user you can begin to see similarities and where you can leverage existing knowledge concepts into the new software. As well as recognize where concepts are just different and so need to be learned as new.
Note, there is now a training course on Edu Space which is also a Primer for SOLIDWORKS Users. A lot of the concepts are common between these primers. The presentation though is different. Use whichever works better for your learning.
If you are familiar with the Abaqus/CAE version you will notice this primer generally sticks with the same approach. A series of videos covering individual stages of an analysis, done side by side in both SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE. However, the specific video stages are different here. In particular, there are a couple of videos on the setup and approach here.
These were added because both 3DEXPERIENCE and the underlying Abaqus solver have different approaches to setting up and analyzing a problem that SOLIDWORKS does with its studies. As such, I felt this was important to bring up initially, because the sequence of stages is very different. Even though the concepts are similar and the overall end point, a working analysis, are the same.
03 Geometry & Abstraction Shapes
07 Physics Simulation Analysis Cases Procedures
As with the previous primer, I do not expect this to be sufficient for a SOLIDWORKS user to learn 3DEXPERIENCE. This is just a primer. Hopefully by going through this you will then be able to recognize in the 3DEXPERIENCE focused training what concepts are similar, what concepts are different and what concepts are new. So, there are opportunities to apply existing knowledge. Rather than just having everything appear to be new and overwhelming, because of the different interface and different approach.
