Robcad Vs Delmia

[Nuno Parreira]

Hello

   
What is the best simulation software: Robcad or Delmia?  In Europe what is the most used?

Thank you

[joker]

Both of them are used very often... and very expensive  I'm working most of teh time with robcad, but it depends on the project.

[MutantB]

Igrip is good software and open source like linux, RobCAD is freezed and easy to work , you choose

[cybermc75]

MutantB,

You say Delmia Igrip is OpenSource, but I cannot find it on the web for free. Maybe it has been purchased. Have you an old open version to share with me, please?

[slinky]

Neither are free. In fact, they are bloody expensive.
You have to have the necessity for a lot of offline work to justify buying them.
Not 100% but I think Delmia was around £30K plus an annual fee of around £8K on one machine (pc) that has to be connected to the internet (Delmia).

[asimo]

Just to clarify, you don't have to be connected to the internet in order to use Delmia.

[slinky]

asimo, can I ask what the annual fee is for then?
Is this the licence or can you just pruchase software once?

[simspec]

The yearly money is for maintenance (software patches, software updates, helpdesk support, etc...)

If you dont have it and then have a problem you are going to have to buy a maintenance contract (and pay any maintenence that you have missed) it before they will help you.

Robcad has a similar deal.

It is because it is a specialist bit of software (very few sales each year so in order to finance support, updates and development they have to charge existing customers)

[asimo]

To add on simspec comments (which are correct) and to answer your question, they normally don't give you licenses for more than 2 years (they will expire after that period [floating or nodelock]), so they kind of protect themself that way and you will have to pay for new licenses. Maybe your license and/or the software is on another server (i.e. you are using a thin client. I doubt it, but it may be so) and that you need an external access to pick up your license (or load the code) so you thought that you absolutely needed an internet connection to use it. But it definitively can but alone on a computer which doesn't have access to any network.

[Bala]

hi all,
         i worked in both the software, only thing i found in Igrip is very faster to work  , Zooming, panning , kinematics etc. Robcad is very easier to work but            f....       slow. you can customize igrip commands like robcad but you need some patience (should be good in C lang)  . Robcad is freezed  but very good commands available for display, kinematics , auto via etc.......   

[simspec]

What version of robcad and delmia were you using and were you using them on the same spec machine?

RobCAD can have massive variations in performance depending on how you have the computer setup.

[Bala]

  Robcad 7.5.1 
  igrip       18 sp2

They are in different machines, Robcad is divorced from other softwares (always lonely ) . Igrip is mixed with other softwares

   only thing i like in igrip is customization

[simspec]

what version of hummingbird are you running on the robcad pc?

different pc's but are they the same model (chip, ram, motherboard, graphics card etc...)?

[Bala]

v9.0 . whether hummingbird affects performance of the system. 

[Bala]

simspec  do you know why humming bird is used and what is the use of this exceed .