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does any one use tacton?
does anyone use tactonworks for managing their assembly files? if so how is it working out for your company?
i'm still looking on whether to use program like tacton or write a simple program.dan miel
sw2008
edited: 04/28/2008 at 03:14 pm by dan miel
from reading their website i can't even figure out what it is meant to be its like reading the worlds most obscure description of a piece of software.
could you fill me in on what this software is supposed to do?
originally posted by: luke malpass
from reading their website i can't even figure out what it is meant to be its like reading the worlds most obscure description of a piece of software.
could you fill me in on what this software is supposed to do?
from what i know it is a configurator tool similar to driveworks.
jorn bjarning
cswp
cad & plm consultant
sw2008 sp5 / sw2009 sp2
jorn is correct. they are similar. one of tactons sales pitches is that instead of using "if" statements to program what parts the configurator is to use, tacton has more of an object type programming where you assign the parts "attributes" and compare the attributes. they claim it is suppose to make programming the configurator easier. i'm just asking if anyone has experience with either one. i see on driveworks website that luke has worked with driveworks. thanks for any information.
dan miel
sw2008
tacton is centered around what is called "constraint programming". whereby you declare what the variables are in your assembly, then you write a series of contraints to those variables.
such as...
width < 2
length < width/7
and so on. the thing with constraints are that once you have many of them things get crowded, and it becomes a difficult problem to solve. the tacton solver has a solver engine built in that solves constraint problems quickly and efficiently. if you were to try and do the same thing in a linear programming environment, it would take much much longer.
with that said, this is of limited use in most cases. most people aren't designing things that need a whole lot of complex constraints.
kevin bennett
kevinsbennett@navitech.us