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The Death of Solidworks

The Death of Solidworks

The Death of Solidworks

(OP)
I just found this blog article while reading the Develop3d magazine... its a very interesting article. For me I am not sure what to think about this decision made by Jeff Ray and the Solidworks Team. I hope what ever happens its going to be better than PTC's decision to rename their products to "Oreo"... I mine "Creo".

http://www.deelip.com/?p=4714

Develop3d http://www.develop3d.com/ - Great magazine, wish we could get a hard copy in the states, but hte PDF version works.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
GEASWUG Greater Evansville Area SWUG Leader
www.scottjbaugh.com

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RE: The Death of Solidworks

Wow.  Very interesting read.  So, the Cat(ia) is out of the bag. LOL.

Joe
SW Office 2008 SP5.0
P4 3.0Ghz 3GB
ATI FireGL X1

RE: The Death of Solidworks

My discussions with CATIA folk are that indicate they don't like SW.
The same is for CATIA mngmt at Boeing.
I have expected for the past few years that DS will change something about SW , well see...

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

RE: The Death of Solidworks

It's all about SW being replaced by a cloud-based version of Catia, sort of.

I have a cloud-based address book containing about 850 entries, mostly text with a few pictures.   It's been 'updating' for about an hour now after a few simple edits.  I have a fairly reliable DSL + wireless connection.  The cloud server is owned by one of the biggest and most experienced cloud suppliers.

The cloud is clearly not ready to support CAD right now.
Will it be ready, when CAD is ready for it?
I don't think so; it can barely support all the damn iPhones that have been sold so far.



 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: The Death of Solidworks

(OP)
Personally I hope that is true and many people I have talked to around the office agree.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
GEASWUG Greater Evansville Area SWUG Leader
www.scottjbaugh.com

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RE: The Death of Solidworks

I must be missing something - isn't this what any business (software or otherwise) does as part of normal operating proceedure?  Look to the future.
The only question is who gets it right!

RE: The Death of Solidworks

I wonder how much the software will cost?

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

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