Process Simulate - General Q

[Bala]

Hi all,
           I want to know how good process simulate is compared to Robcad.

1. In general i heard that process simulate is advance and more flexible than Robcad--- Is it so?
2. Does process simulate is having similar commands like Robcad--- is it easier to work  like Robcad?
3. Whether process simulate can import complete Robcad cell data (Like path, kinematics etc) --- Or only it can migrate .co files
4. Robcad is basically a UNIX based ( i feel) ---- Which platform Process simulate is (Windows or UNIX )

Moreover process simulate is bundled together with process design and .. blha blha.. i dont kn... Why the hell Oracle need to be installed (Well i am not sure i just saw it)---- Is it necessary

Already major OEM's are shifting to process simulate. and some released their STANDARD documents in the base of process simulate. With in a year or so all this happened. i almost fainted by seeing the new standards  . Does a basic service provider to the OEM's can afford this software price?? 

Thanks
Bala

[simspec]

so many questions so little time.....

1. not more advanced and definately not as flexible for S.E. work (or working quickly).
2. similar commands, for everything except modeling (everything that was useful in robcad modeling they did not include in process simulate - being able to draw a circle by 3 points so you can find the axis of rotation of a clamp (with a bad conversion), this wasnt included originally, there is a method you can use to workaround this that was added recently, and other things are slowly being added as the complaints mount up). the commands that were included in robcad motion window are spread over about 6 different windows in process simulate (which have to be opened one by one)
3. it can import cell data (not quick as you need to set up all the components first in the database)
4. proc sim is pc

oracle.
is necassary -   process simulate / process design is all database related, you cant insert a component into a cell / study unless it is declared in the database (process simulate cant see it unless its in the database,   originally you couldnt add components to the database with process simulate only with process designer, they have now added that function to process simulate)

process designer - contains functions that process simulate users (doing a similar job to robcad users) need to do their job (these functions were not in process simulate), because of pressure  from the oem's some of these functions have been added to process simulate.

process simulate is gettting to the stage where you dont need process designer apart from some special functions for maintaining the database (fixing it).



Also if you delete something from your study (like a path or a station), if you delete it in the wrong way, you delete it from the project, so if someone else had it in their study you have deleted it from their study as well  - this tends to annoy people.  (if  two people are testing whether they can weld a spot in their stations and one person concludes that they cant and delete the weld from their study, if they do it in the wrong way can delete the weld from the project (everybodies study))

also going back to a previous version of the study (in robcad opening yesterdays .ce) is not simple in process simulate (database).

there are some good things about it too.... just cant think of any that leap out at you as being worth  having to deal with the database (from a robcad users perspective).

[Bala]

Wow simspec     thats a very good reply....

Reply is  very neat and clear  hats off

Bala

 

[simspec]

for a manager process simulate is good, because everything is in the database (paths locations welds guns tools robots etc...) they can do database queries and find out if welds are being welded twice or not at all etc....., pretty much any query regarding what is in what study and what isnt in any study can be done a lot easier than in robcad (which would involve opening the all the cells and checking what was in each one), process simulate you just ask the database (because the database is all the studies)