By now most Solidworks users who don’t live under a digital rock already know that the Solidworks software as you know it is slowly fading away. Licensing options are disappearing.…
Category: comparison
I’m writing this because I think the CAD community at large, including users, media, and vendors, have sold Synchronous Technology short. I’m just taking this on as a personal project,…
For a while I had this brilliant idea of creating a CAD Olympics. Let me tell you, if you think you have too many friends and need to leave some…
Just to clarify, the concept of the benefits of CAD in the Cloud is very appealing. Unfortunately, the details of getting there and being there are somewhat less attractive right…
Part 2 is all about the role that the technology played in my switch. Going from a skeptic to a supporter seems like a big jump, but if I explain…
I get contacted every now and then by people or companies doing research before buying a new CAD package.They are interested in the story of a prominent user changing camps.…
Chris McAndrews has written a series of articles about Solid Edge from the viewpoint of a SolidWorks user. Chris has been a SolidWorks user for a number of years, and…
For decades CAD salesmen have been promising to do away with 2D drawings, and to remove barriers to collaboration. But with passing year, we tend to see more roadblocks to…
This was a comment from a reader in a recent post: One of the people who originated SW said in an interview that they’d settled on parasolid rather than ACIS…
Lately I’ve been interested in broadening my horizons. Comparing CAD systems seems to be my way of doing that. I’ve been talking to some industry people, and learning a lot…