Jack Herrmann
Jack Herrmann is new to drafting and solid modeling, but not to engineering. For years, Herrmann was a welder for L.A. County in California. After an injury, he was retrained in drafting and 3D design. In an 18-week program, Herrmann learned to use AutoCAD, Inventor and SolidWorks. Now that he has formed a small company for free-lance drafting and design, he hopes to work with some of the machinists he worked alongside for years as a welder. Herrmann now lives in Bodfish, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, near Lake Isabella, where he also works on his own inventions that he developed during his welding career.
As a new Alibre Design customer, Herrmann was contacted by Scott Erickson, Alibre's user experience manager, to offer a free training session where users are guided by phone through a personalized Team Design session. At first, Herrmann ignored the messages. Then, Erickson noticed one day that Herrmann was working online. (As with Microsoft's Messenger tool, Alibre Design notifies users with a pop-up message when one of their contacts is online). Erickson sent him an instant message and Herrmann agreed to schedule a training session. "When he first contacted me, I wasn't interested in training," Herrmann said. "Then, I saw how I could connect with him. It was so simple."
Herrmann has been impressed with the modeling and assembly capabilities of Alibre Design as well. "Mating parts in assemblies was very difficult in SolidWorks, requiring several steps. Constraints were more difficult, too. In Alibre Design, you have just one move and you're there-it was unbelievable. Also, generating an exploded view is so easy. In SolidWorks, you have to get so many variables right to create an exploded view."
"Alibre Design is just a whole lot easier to use," Herrmann continued. "I really liked the tutorials. As I went through them, my wife was working nearby and she kept hearing me say, 'Wow, wow-this is so much easier than SolidWorks'."
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