Be.eM Posted September 1, 2010 Report Share Posted September 1, 2010 In the absence of any news on the tesla modeler, how about teaming up with Newercenter again? Well, just to propose something different here: In my opinion ViaCAD is the product which already is quite close to what EIM was or Tesla should be. It's ACIS based, offers usable modeling tools, a working CAD import, an existing FACT export, and runs on Win and Mac. Files exported from ViaCAD shade fine in EIAS (once "use polygon color" is disabled). And it's available for $99, which really makes it a candidate for adding it to another application like EIAS. It has its limitations, sure. For me the worst thing about ViaCAD is the missing ability to create hierarchically sorted groups or assemblies, which both EIM and FormZ can do (and every other CAD application out there, too). But maybe this is something that can be requested from Tim (Olson), when talking about teaming up forces… What I'd love to see even more is bringing together what was an unbeatable team years ago. FormZ or Bonzai3D as a companion for EIAS. Again, something should be done with the current FormZ FACT export, it's quite difficult to get a good shading of objects (although it's possible). But again, maybe the "teaming up" offer could help to get things fixed. Anyway, these are all existing products, and all include FACT support. Tools like Silo are without any use for me (personally), because I mostly work with CAD files from clients. An SDS modeler is simply the wrong tool for this, and even EIM/Tesla were or are (probably) not designed as an SDS modeler. Bernd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph56 Posted October 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Well, it looks like silo has some life! 2.2 released . Maybe talk to them and see if they're committed or want to do a deal like before. In any event if you have an old mac you'll have to use silo 2.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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