To those who participated, thank you for your
effort.
The Inventor $1500.00 Challenge
document started with a line
from the Lewis Carroll classic ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’? The reason; many users of 3D CAD products need
to guard against becoming like the young oysters, believers in what is
promised
(not the reality) and in the end meeting just that, their end, consumed
by the
very same who had made the promise of a ‘pleasant walk and talk’.
Why the Challenge and more? (Answered more
fully in cadWest’s WEB pages.)
For those not interested in
reading my reasons, a reply; the
.ipt files for Block_B and the Handwheel would have had to have been
created in
much less than 15 minutes; the best, one only >30 minutes, average
between 90 to 120 minutes.
For those who questioned the ‘insertion’ process
in
preference to a re-draught; simple it evened out the playing field (to
Inventors advantage) making the result more realistic, when comparing
the
information I was after.
Those who wanted to talk about
parametrics and its
‘advantages’; there is substance in this argument when applicable to a
user,
but consider, it is not always applicable and in any event we have been
able to
do these (and these types of) shapes parametrically in AutoCAD/MDT for
years
before Inventor, it was not new information thank you.
For those who wanted to talk
about a ‘scam’. My Challenge was no
‘scam’, I am too well
known to the industry here and to Autodesk to get away with
a scam, the
offer was real. However, I am self employed; only getting paid by
customers to
whom I have rendered a service that they were satisfied with. I used the Challenge to search for particular
information from a particular group of individuals using Inventor. For
new
information (and that’s what it needed to be) from an individual I was
prepared
to pay and why should I not. A different method for a specific result.
The ‘flathead’ comment; 'an argument put by a
person versed
in an arena and unable to project himself/herself into another. A
person who
cannot learn anything new from anybody else', no skin of my nose, but
it isn’t
applicable to me or the Challenge.
In summary, a great many users of
MCAD products are being
taken for the ride of their life and it is costing them, and the
companies they
work for dearly.
Ask yourself this, ‘Inventor 9 is
the culmination of
eighteen years of 3D software development by Autodesk’, how is it I can
still
throw down a challenge like this? I ask
and CHALLENGE Autodesk; having already made a 1400% improvement
(Autodesk’s
figures) in our Design and Engineering tasks using Autodesk’s MCAD
products how
is it that Inventor can deliver a 60% improvement (Autodesk’s figures)
in these
tasks when we find Inventor does not create components or documents
faster than
Autodesk software that’s four to five years old?
A bit odd don’t you think Oysters?
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