Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!msn017!cad
From: cad@msn017.misemi (_syscad_)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Anyone out there using HP's DesignCenter Software ?
Summary: DCS and Hilo on a 319?
Message-ID: <634@msn017.misemi>
Date: 22 Mar 89 14:07:32 GMT
References: <550@msn017.misemi> <2148@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <7649@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Organization: MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
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In article <7649@pyr.gatech.EDU>, is813cs@pyr.gatech.EDU (Cris Simpson) writes:
> We're running DCS & Hilo on a 319 (Soon to be a 360).  We're looking to 
> move beyond EGS on the 9936.  How are the ME?0 products? Would you 
> buy them again? Would you choose them over other products on other
> platforms? 

	DCS and Hilo on a 319 ? You have my condolences. We were talked into 
purchasing a couple of 319s as low-cost DCS stations. We purchased them with
8 Megs of memory and 132 Mb. disks. However, we found them to be exceedingly
slow. Further, after loading in DCS and a basic UNIX core we only had 3
Mb. of disk space remaining. Needless to say, we only run DCS on 350s.
(i'm anxious to see how they'll run on 340s)

	In response to your other query, I must confess that I mainly deal
with HP's EE software and have only played with ME10 a couple of times. 
Unlike DCS, it runs great on a 319. Coming from a AutoCAD environment, I
would argue that ME10 is far better. It's user interface and command structure
are far slicker and it seems far more flexible. (Dealing only with 2-D drawings
of course.) Unfortunately, I have no working experience with ME30 but the
mechanical engineers that work with it seem to like it alot. The only
major complaint that I hear consistantly is the time it takes to translate
a 2-D view to a 3-D which seems to take anywhere from 2-8 hours on a 350.

Alan Nakamoto
CAE Support
Mitel Corporation