PhotoView 360 Survey

I know that it’s early and you haven't even gotten your multi-cores
overheating yet, but we'd like to get your initial feedback about
PhotoView 360.

Please help us by taking a few minutes to complete this short 11
question survey. Upon completing the survey, you will be redirected to
a site displaying some cool PV360 images that have been created by our
community.

The following is a link to the survey:

http://www.solidworks.com/PhotoView360_survey

 

Reading through it I would say that's probably the best survey I've seen
from SW in a while i.e.. there is a full set of questions that actually
seem to be asked with the purpose of revealing customer
opinions/needs.<wow!>
Unfortunately very few people outside beta testers will have actually
experienced it given sp0 is only just available for download but still...

The question I have is : Why was PW360 brought forward so far in the scheme
of things when it is apparent the whole direction hasn't been decided on (
how ,why,who,what, when ) and there are only just enough features to get by
with? Strange goings on..
Perhaps the man with the blank screen knows the answer...

IMHO this survey that should have been undertaken somewhere about
alpha/early beta stage.
Ultimately though I think PW360 will be very useful - i.e. will deliver very
good results, quickly and with a min. of dedicated expertise.
I am sure this will suit many SW users daily needs.
People who really need a v. high end render which requires intense
specialised set up and tools will most likely want to use something else or
a rendering service.
I don't see that as a failing.
Just make sure you provide some useful file formats or API dangling out for
that option - i.e. don't try to be a monopoly provider like MS

Seriously now that you have started on this path ( rightly or wrongly) I
think you should just integrate/finish it properly for next release and
retire PW.
It doesn't make sense to have concurrent renderers even if of a slightly
different flavour.

 

Mark,

How does PhotoView 360 solve the massive problem that parametric-
history based modelers like SolidWorks and Pro/E have with:

1. Modifying non-native solids quickly and easily like Solid Edge with
ST or SpaceClaim can?

2. Understanding someone else's design intent?

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.wordpress.com/

 

I't doesn't.

Mark

 

What does this have to do with solving 1+1 = ?

 

http://tinyurl.com/3t6gr8

"SolidWorks has commands such as Move Face that allows you to make
some changes to imported data but it is limited and can be time
consuming."

"... we can drive an imported part with our own dimensions added to
the model after import. Try doing that in SolidWorks or any other
parametric modelling system."

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.blogspot.com/