What Software do Mechanical Engineers NEED to Know?

Awesome talk! As a 3D artist this was fascinating for me to see the flipside, how engineers use the same software in the real world. Cool to know fusion 360 is up there for you too.

How can I learn about the cae software??

what the name of laptop behind you bro ?

but is it the wrong way to think if i'm learning different degrees to make my own stuff..

Bro thanks for sharing an informative video .. please share mechanical software free courses platform to learn..

I am fresh Mechanical Engineering UG student. Learn many new things your video.

A very useful alternative to the CAE analysis software you mentioned is Altair’s ‘SimSolid’. It eliminates the need to simplify the geometry changes required by most traditional FEA software as pointed out in step 1 of your video and also doesn’t use ‘meshing’ so eliminates that part of the preprocessing activity in step 2. It lets you analyse the CAD model as you designed it. It is incredibly good for getting fast and reliable results

Sheet Metal Cone Segmental Elbows, Cones and other.

Open Foam is free CFD that is powerful as Ansys Fluent. It is not that user friendly but it is free and have a big community.

Finley someone anderstand a part of me..... Thank you ❤

solidworks é um software muito poderoso eu particularmente gosto muito desse software

1. Excel , Autocad.
2. Fusion, Rhino,...are not mechanical engineers grade software. Fusion is perfect for 1 person work with cnc router in garage workshop.
3. Right software depends on what kind work your company does. For general purpose Inventor (for same price you get about 5 programs added in pack) , Solid Works-want to be inventor, but not at same level at all, Siemens NX - to expensive, but works fine. Creo, Catia,..junk. When you add cost of combined licences AND implemented server base for team work, than you are left with Inventor only.
4. FEM (finite element method) depends again on your copanys work. You get basic FEM inside CAD, which covers about 99% of needs. Older you are, more you use excel for same job.
5. Excel again. It is your best friend.
6. program language : FORTRAN (for easy typing mathematical formulas) ,VISUAL BASIC (for MACROS in MS office) , STEP7 , C++ are must. Phyton is C# without VS.
7. CAM work: Fusion , HSM for solidworks or inventor, Workflow in these is perfect.
8. Excel for everything else.

Can you make a video about the hardware needed for university and to work in the industry?

What a shame that the audio is painful, such great information though.

your voice is noise in your room

how to learn autocad and solidworks

How about CAM SOFTWARE like MASTER CAM or SOLIDCAM?

How about CAM SOFTWARE like MASTER CAM or SOLIDCAM? Someone please help. Thank You.

I worked with all major CAD programs - CATIA, NX and SolidWorks. CATIA is the best, SolidWorks is OK, and NX sucks. NX is just cheaper alternative to CATIA the companies use to save money and to have some extra functions SolidWorks does not have, but NX really sucks, it requires extra work (extra mouse clicks and extra keyboard typing) comparing with CATIA and even comparing with SolidWorks to build the same geometry and the visualization engine is worst than CATIA or SolidWorks.

Software for designing a small jet engine, is solidworks a simple all rounder? key aspect is the CFD to get the flow right from airfoil shapes and ducting. Is it good enough for real world predictions?

Most factory still use autocad dude

I am prefer inventor over solid works any time much faster & easy to use, recently switched to solid works for product specific need. It took half day what inventor can do in half our. We are migrating to inventor in near future.

It’s just that Inventor is more universal: it’s for both mechanics and builders. It is strong in connection with AutoCAD and Revit. There are no analogues here (fortunately or unfortunately).

Inventors' all you'll need, it does it all.

We only want a video on two programs, SolidWorks and Creo. The difference between them is profound and when we decide which one to use. Thank you

Ya it's the machinist that does the real work and fixing your problems.

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Excel and Matlab are very useful . They can get you a quick result for data analysis. I always recommend to use standalone fem software. Standalone fem is a must to get accurate result efficiently. I only use CAD software for structure modeling. But your listed categories are very helpful to write down a resume.🎉

Pls make a video for people who is thinking about mayor in mechanical engineering.. like skills to have to prepare for

This could have been an email. The sound would have been better.

Thank you Sir, The video is very much helpful

If you can design readily manufacturable parts, you will always have a job. This is one of the most underrated skills in mechanical engineering.

Instead of C++, it is better to learn C when it comes to engineering. Not because it is easier, but because in the world of microcontrollers and generally when you need to program something that includes some sensors, microcontrollers, microprocessors, etc. You're going to use at most C. But it all depends on the application. Still, C++ is a great and very powerful language, that's for sure and it has many applications but in this case, it is better to know C

Okay but real talk, how about screw your employer and make your own business? Yall ever think about that

Thank you very much for this video. God bless you man.

My company used Inventor when I started, but changed to SolidWorks after a couple of years. It was a super easy transition. Now we're getting ready to change to Creo. I'm told that it won't be as easy of a transition as Solidworks was. Fingers crossed.

I just graduated with an ME degree and every job I am applying to lists autocad and/or revit as necessary.

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thank you so much for clear and good video

While putting Excel on the resume is filler, you need to be very good with Excel. I've been working as an engineer for over 20 years and it pains me to see how poor some people are at using a tool that you will use every day. Excel will likely be the number one tool you use every day regardless of where you work. You not only need to be able to do calculations, but process data, make plots, write custom functions with VB (yes, it is useful and easy to learn). If you're truly good at Excel you can use it to do many of your routine or one-off tasks that don't have specialized software.

What laptop specs do you use for solidworks?
thanks

you really should review spaceclaim. The US has a big problem that most people dont know about. and thats the lack of US developed and owned CAD and CAM systems. Ansys is the closest. Autodesk is second, but still mostly multinational. Im really not sure why the military isnt demanding these big companies have US based software.

Thank you! Great video! If I may give some advice, it would have been much better if you had used an external microphone.

We’ll play with those legos what our employers have…even that we know that toyshops have many kind of hightech toys.

Thank you for the pack

ok but i just want to hang shelves in my room, so which software is fffweeee?

Over 200 million people worldwide use Autodesk software, primarily Autocad in ME still. Around the world in 2024, over 9,028 companies have started using Autodesk Inventor as cad-software tool. Companies using Autodesk Inventor for cad-software are primarily from United States with 4,025 customers. 55.31% of Autodesk Inventor customers are from the United States. Get your figures straight before making a claim.

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