SWW2012 Day 2 General Session
Again, I’ll have a finger on the live blogs and twitter feeds, trying to pick out what I think is important from the stream . This post will update several times over the next two hours, so keep your finger on that F5.
Next year’s CSWP party will be scaled back to CSWE’s
Charles Culp gets the Community award (go Charles!)
Quirky – crowdsource everything, but don’t call it crowdsource, (ok, it’s design by committee)
And that’s it.
Wow. Empty.
Thanks to SolidBox for the a/v feed and Lou Gallo for commentary.
Thanks Matt. Personal perspective on the Quirky thing. I was a little disappointed, in that it didn’t seem to put much if any focus on the manufacturing side of the equation. Great, lots of ways for the inventors, designers, contributors, and promoters to get recognition and get paid, but no real mention of the THOUSHANDS of manufactuing folks who do just as much if not more to bring the products we enjoy to life. So those people on the assembly line, cranking these things out, are they all setup with quirky account and having checks sent out to them? It’s cool that there are so many outlets now for people to invent and make their idea a reality, but there really is still so much and so many people involved.
Was really hoping to see a demonstration of SWV6. Just more of the same I suppose. Actions speak louder than words. I bet they’re gonna regret this. My prediction is sales for solidworks will flat-line next year.
SWW seems to be very low profile in the media this year reflecting that not a lot is happening with SW while they work on the v6 code…
I thought Ricky Jordan was doing some official reporting duties but there doesn’t appear to much going on at his blog either. Probably the lectures are where the interest is for most attendees.
The sneak peak of SW2013 should be ‘interesting’. More Modo in/out we know about already from Mark’s recent SW forum post. That might offset the loss? of TsElements whose future you rather suspect is bound up in legal wrangles. What’s New might be a very short list which would leave some serious questions in users minds about where DS are headed and when they hope to get there.
Today’s report here of 3 noteworthy items in 2 hours isn’t very inspiring even if Charles deserved his award.
DS need to be ramping up v6 talk over the next 6 months or people are going to think its vapourware.
If we get to next SWW and there is still nothing to hear about v6 and SW development is hardly worth mentioning the transition could be very awkward indeed. Financially as well.
@ralphg
My wife ordered a birthday present for my daughter and they accidentally shipped some Rapidiographs in the box with it. She was like “what the heck are these”? Unfortunately, I was old enough to know the answer. I guess they still do “drawn in pen and ink” drawings somewhere! 🙂
Substitute “design by committee” with “engineering team.” Back when I still worked for a consulting engineering firm, we had both: solo design (like me designing a new signalized intersection on my own) and team design (a new freeway). Typically, each member on the design team had their specialty: roadway design, cut and fill calculations, relocation of existing structures, bridge design, and so on. The senior engineer made sure it all worked.
This was the early 1980s, so of course everything was drawn using ink on Mylar sheets. Back then, huge engineering projects didn’t need CAD.
This just shows there is no middle ground on design by committee, or what ever you want to call it. Day one speaker says it does not work and day two does it for a living.
DS SolidWorks is in Vegas at the roulette wheel and betting all their money on Red!