Re: SoftSim

[holmegm -at- attbi -dot- com]

"Rick Henkel" <frameuser -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:

>Has anyone here used SoftSim? Our director is pushing us to use this because
>it can write procedures for you. I don't know anything about it, so I
>thought I check here.

My team is just starting to use it now.  We inherited a large CBT tutorial
that uses simulations generated by SoftSim.

I can't give a full report on its capabilities yet.  It has a proprietary
output format and Java viewer, that does not work in Sun's JRE, just
Microsoft's VM.  That is becoming a problem, as some users have the Sun
JRE installed.

It can "write" procedures for what it records, in a mechanical sense.
The steps link with the simulation, which can be kind of neat.  I 
guess if all you were going to have was a "double-click here, type there"
document, you could do worse than what it generates.  It would probably
need some editing, of course.

Sorry I don't have more to report yet.  I'll be interested in hearing what
your team's decision is, and what your experience is if you use it.

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