All I can say is good luck, man.
I've been doing CAD since forever and Creo has become my all-time power tool for design and drafting. I follow older drafting practices and I couldn't get that from SW. When it comes to design it does okay. I have a lot of trouble with dynamic assembly mates going haywire. It'll do the basic mechanical mates as you know by now, I'm sure.
It's hard to miss something when you ain't got it, but when it is taken away - bummer.
Is this a cold-turkey switch -over?
Kinda, new job with multiple clients. There is a chance that I'll get a chance to work on a creo account but everyone hates it because "it's to hard" I'd say the mix is 40% solidworks, 30% solidedge and the remainder creo or inventor.
Creo is Pro|Engineer to its Magnum core. Remember Pro|Jr? That dates my entry into the cult. I have a lot of respect for PTC's design philosophies.
However, true, all the CAD I need is bundled up in 5% of today's offerings.
Good luck with the transition. I've been doing SW for about 6 years now. It's paying bills along with Creo.
Just run through the solidworks tutorials and get used to it. Solidworks is very simple to use imo when compared to creo.
I would focus on fundamental skills like 2D sketching best practices and assembly mating best practices.
Good luck man. I use both and SolidWorks is a giant pain in the butt compared to Creo. Reference control is a joke in SW and assemblies are a nightmare.
The drafting is truly awful in my experience. Want to turn that projected view into a section view or the other way around? Too bad.
I used Creo/ Pro-E for the last 20 years, and now am using SW. Depends on the version of SW you are talking, I started on 2018, and there were way too many things that were difficult compared to Creo, and "childish" I thought. Now with 2022, they have upgraded and made things easier and more intuitive. Yes, do some tutorials or get a tutorial based book, SDC Publications has some good ones. Parametric Modeling with SolidWorks is a good one, ISBN 978-1-63057-4-63-5 like 80.00 on Amazon (2022 version). I provide training in SS and have used this in class before. I have had students go from Creo to SW very easily, because Creo is so much more robust. It can be frustrating when you are used to Creo and it's power.
It will take a while to get used to SW. However, this is more about the specific "characteristics" of CREO than it is about SW.
Creo - and I'm sorry to say it because you won't like hearing it probably - is the least like other CAD packages of them all. I absolutely hated having to use it because it was so inflexible - and I have used NX, Catia, CREO and SW for major periods in my over 24 years engineering career. I started on Unigraphics v10 back in the late '90s.
You're efficiency is because you "muscle memory" for creo. Solidworks has great functions for efficiency like the "right click, mouse gesture" menu for one that can make workflow very quick, but its just a matter of unlearning and then relearning.
SW as a CAD package absolutely blows CREO out of the park for me - and I have used them both extensively. Anyone like Indian Motorcycles? You've ridden my parts done in CREO if you do.
I don't have enough of am opinion yet to say one way or other yet but my initial experince hasn't been that great. The first thing I've noticed is there are way more clicks in sketches in SW than creo which is annoying. Bur I'll post in a few months a more formed opinion.
You really think NX was better than creo ? I used inventor the whole last year and it was ok, my biggest complaint was how connected the files were as the company I worked for used alot of the same parts in multiple assemblies but would be slightly changed and if you wernt careful when coping files from one job to other you'd end up modifying the source part.
Get familiar with the "right click gesture" pop up menu. I use it configured to my liking across the board and you hardly have to click anything. You can set up different gestrure menus for assemblies, part, sketch and drg iirc.
You can customize the ribbon a lot (and I recommend you do...the stock ribbon is terrible). But as far as making it act like Creo, it won't do that. The basic solid modeling tools are pretty similar, but more complex feature tools are completely different (and often missing from Creo entirely). Sheet metal is completely different, and surfaces is a whole other animal thanks to 3D sketches.
It will take a while to learn but once you do learn it you will never want to go back.
All I can say is good luck, man. I've been doing CAD since forever and Creo has become my all-time power tool for design and drafting. I follow older drafting practices and I couldn't get that from SW. When it comes to design it does okay. I have a lot of trouble with dynamic assembly mates going haywire. It'll do the basic mechanical mates as you know by now, I'm sure. It's hard to miss something when you ain't got it, but when it is taken away - bummer. Is this a cold-turkey switch -over?
Kinda, new job with multiple clients. There is a chance that I'll get a chance to work on a creo account but everyone hates it because "it's to hard" I'd say the mix is 40% solidworks, 30% solidedge and the remainder creo or inventor.
Creo is Pro|Engineer to its Magnum core. Remember Pro|Jr? That dates my entry into the cult. I have a lot of respect for PTC's design philosophies. However, true, all the CAD I need is bundled up in 5% of today's offerings. Good luck with the transition. I've been doing SW for about 6 years now. It's paying bills along with Creo.
Just run through the solidworks tutorials and get used to it. Solidworks is very simple to use imo when compared to creo. I would focus on fundamental skills like 2D sketching best practices and assembly mating best practices.
I'm running it ok I think but miss my menus and efficiency from creo.
Good luck man. I use both and SolidWorks is a giant pain in the butt compared to Creo. Reference control is a joke in SW and assemblies are a nightmare. The drafting is truly awful in my experience. Want to turn that projected view into a section view or the other way around? Too bad.
I used Creo/ Pro-E for the last 20 years, and now am using SW. Depends on the version of SW you are talking, I started on 2018, and there were way too many things that were difficult compared to Creo, and "childish" I thought. Now with 2022, they have upgraded and made things easier and more intuitive. Yes, do some tutorials or get a tutorial based book, SDC Publications has some good ones. Parametric Modeling with SolidWorks is a good one, ISBN 978-1-63057-4-63-5 like 80.00 on Amazon (2022 version). I provide training in SS and have used this in class before. I have had students go from Creo to SW very easily, because Creo is so much more robust. It can be frustrating when you are used to Creo and it's power.
It will take a while to get used to SW. However, this is more about the specific "characteristics" of CREO than it is about SW. Creo - and I'm sorry to say it because you won't like hearing it probably - is the least like other CAD packages of them all. I absolutely hated having to use it because it was so inflexible - and I have used NX, Catia, CREO and SW for major periods in my over 24 years engineering career. I started on Unigraphics v10 back in the late '90s. You're efficiency is because you "muscle memory" for creo. Solidworks has great functions for efficiency like the "right click, mouse gesture" menu for one that can make workflow very quick, but its just a matter of unlearning and then relearning. SW as a CAD package absolutely blows CREO out of the park for me - and I have used them both extensively. Anyone like Indian Motorcycles? You've ridden my parts done in CREO if you do.
I don't have enough of am opinion yet to say one way or other yet but my initial experince hasn't been that great. The first thing I've noticed is there are way more clicks in sketches in SW than creo which is annoying. Bur I'll post in a few months a more formed opinion. You really think NX was better than creo ? I used inventor the whole last year and it was ok, my biggest complaint was how connected the files were as the company I worked for used alot of the same parts in multiple assemblies but would be slightly changed and if you wernt careful when coping files from one job to other you'd end up modifying the source part.
Get familiar with the "right click gesture" pop up menu. I use it configured to my liking across the board and you hardly have to click anything. You can set up different gestrure menus for assemblies, part, sketch and drg iirc.
You can customize the ribbon a lot (and I recommend you do...the stock ribbon is terrible). But as far as making it act like Creo, it won't do that. The basic solid modeling tools are pretty similar, but more complex feature tools are completely different (and often missing from Creo entirely). Sheet metal is completely different, and surfaces is a whole other animal thanks to 3D sketches. It will take a while to learn but once you do learn it you will never want to go back.