

The advantage comes more in a professional environment. this can be a very useful learning tool - inspecting others' work to see how they accomplished to learn their skills. The disadvantages for a student means that you can't "peak under the hood" and examine the sketches and features used to create the geometry. you will not see a feature tree, you cannot see the sketches and features used to create the model. however they lack the software-specific editing features. STEP files are software-neutral geometry. there are advantages and disadvantages to this that might be worth exploring in the context of educational purposes. in the past upgrades were once every 4 years now they're every fucking year.Īs mentioned earlier, STEP is an exchange/interchange format that any CAD system should be able to read.

They switched to a subscription model and convince users to upgrade ever year, but every time people upgrade, it causes problems like this. i currently use 2017 and i can say that it has a few handy features not included in 2011. honestly in an educational environment (and in most professional environments) you won't notice a huge difference between SW 2019 vs. the whole "subscription" model with forced upgrades every year is not consumer friendly. The upgrade structure as it stands now is a bit of a scam.

This is a learning community DEROGATORY, DEMEANING, or OVERTLY NEGATIVE remarks are NOT TOLERATED.Īs a guide stay in the top 4 levels and not the bottom 3 levels of Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement
