


Will Dassault Systemes build a platform for small manufacturing companies and make it available for Solidworks users?
PLM for SMB is a long time dream of PLM minded community. Check articles online to see it is actually what PLM vendors are looking for. Here are just few snippets. Nancy Johnson (in Cadalyst) article The Democratization of Manufacturing and PLM Software Manufacturing is becoming faster, more agile, and…

3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace – a step into future manufacturing network?
Another topic that caught my special attention at Solidworks World 2019 was future development and updates about 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace. I already shared information about this product on my blog before. At Solidworks World 2018 and DS 3DEXPERIENCE North America forum in Boston. Check these articles out – DS Big Dreams,…

SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE – Beyond PDM trajectories
Solidworks PDM was always a very interesting place to spot. Two decades ago, Solidworks didn’t focus much on PDM. Partnership solutions made a great deal out of this status quo and Solidworks picked those solutions that provided greatest value for majority of Solidworks users and gradually acquired them at the…

Cloud collaboration using SOLIDWORKS and 3DXEPERIENCE 3D Drive
I’m continuing to digest and share information about what I’ve seen last week at Solidworks World 2019 in Dallas. Today I want to focus on how cloud applications (or how DS is now calling “platform”) can help to collaboration and work together online. The amount of publication about cloud collaboration…

SWW 2019: xShape and desktop – cloud workflows

SOLIDWORKS World 2019 – Intro to 3DEXPERIENCE.works

What is coming at SOLIDWORKS World 2019?

PLM buzzword detox?

How different is Onshape PDM?
Engineering.com article A Solidworks user look at Onshape brought my PDM twisted mind again to what I call CAD version of Turgenev’s novel “Faters an Sons. Modern CAD Onshape is competing with once modern CAD Solidworks created almost by the same group of people, but 20 years later. Read the article and…