CW is easier for you because you're used to it. We were a CW shop since 1986 (I'm told), and we have several employees who continue to use CW even though it causes massive problems due to its serious limitations.
Whatever you are used to is easier. When I occasionally have to open CW to look at something one of them done, it is frustrating because I no longer remember where everything is nor the architecture of the program.
Human natures says that when you are under the gun, you'll do things the way you already know. The only way you'll ever actually get switched is for someone in charge to put their foot down and threaten to fire anybody who doesn't switch over. Otherwise, everyone will always just revert to what they know.
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This same philosophy is basically true of any software switch, whether engineering, CAD, accounting, ERP, whatever. Unless you remove the old system, people will just continue to use it.
So you have to decide, do you care about the real CAD tools, real solid modelling, real shaped cabinet handling? Or is CW's stuff more important to your business. Perhaps you'll draw the things in CW that deserve to be in CW and those things in CV that need to be there. I am probably one of the biggest proponents of using CV, but not if you aren't technical enough.
CW is 1980's technology, and good for people who are not good with computers. If you want to use CV, you're going to need people who understand the software. It has a programming language in it that can be used to do just about anything automatically if you need something other than what it ships with, but to use a programming language you need to know or learn how to program. It has a comprehensive reporting capability using Crystal Reports, but if you need something other than what it ships with you will need to know how to use Crystal Reports. It has a complete solid model with the ability to project operations from one part to another, but if you need to make changes from what it ships with you will need to learn about solid modelling.
You can also outsource those components you don't want to learn- you can outsource setup, you can outsource programming, you can outsource reports.
This is no different from the people who refused to learn automated tools for woodworking because they were faster with whatever it was they used to have. While that might be true for them personally because they are unable to learn the new technologies, that isn't true in general.
If you're just going to approach CV as a 'better' CW, then you're going to hate it and your implementation will fail and you might as well not even try. It is completely different. You need to chuck CW out the window and just commit to CV, even when it slows you down getting something set up just right that you could have done in your sleep in the software you've been using for years. Not everybody can do that, and that's ok.
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