Guest Blog #1

Hi Oleg, I sent you an article on Blockchain to be posted as a guest blog. Seems that it is not activated yet. Let me know when you start seriously with this innovative project.
Regards, Michael

Michael, I’ve got it. Thank you! Takes a bit time on my side. I hope will come to this later coming week. Apologizing about the delay. Best, Oleg

Thank you for the reply!
I think DS has a greater offering, not to say that the 3DX platform isn’t without caveats – especially given the reliance on Enovia PDM and some IT issues with installation, but Siemens is being competitive with the acquisitions of Mindsphere and Mentor Graphics.

Where I think DS has a strong advantage is against NX. Catia in 3DX for example, has “natural sketch” for creative modeling and “dymola” for modelica modeling; and 3DX as a whole includes several more apps with greater tools for simulation, manufacturing, and rendering.

Without getting too technical, I think NX lacks support and a yearly release schedule. And although the 3DX platform costs more with all of the apps and licenses, it is far more powerful.

So I would end with this, if I were hypothetically a startup, let’s say making high-end motorcycles (requires a lot of engineering, but not many people), I would choose some private cloud licenses of 3DX. That way, I don’t find that I need another product later on I didn’t factor into my budget (such as Star CCM+ for NX). And my employees could do crunch work from home with the 3DX browser if they needed, just a thought.

I’d love to know what you think.

Hmm, you certainly have a more holistic view of the topic, and that offers me new perspective. So, discounting the specific capabilities of various 3D software, can the 3DX platform be used within the existing cPDM environment. Let’s go back to the Mercedes dilemma in 2010 (you were quick to pick up on my reference); Mercedes was concerned with running two PDM systems at once, hypothetically it would double costs on that end. Is it possible for 3DX to tether with Teamcenter or Windchill, so that Enovia doesn’t need to be managed within 3DX?

I suppose that’s a fairly specific question. For startups at least, that wouldn’t be a problem, as there would be no existing system in place, so adopting Enovia would be both convenient and prudent given its integration with 3DX. Speaking of which, DS seems particularly interested in startups and small enterprises at the moment, even if only for marketing purposes.

I think two things DS has missed are multi-platform support and wider distribution of the 3DX platform to educators and individuals. We’ve already seen progress with the former, Linux has support for server hosting. But there’s no telling if 3DX will be open to less professional communities in the future.

Anyways, given the rapid pace of the industry, I can’t wait to see the offerings of all the PLM companies in 10 years, a lot has happened in the last. Thanks for your time.

You could run 3DX and Catia V5 together, sure, I hadn’t thought of that. The backwards compatibility could act as a way to transfer V6 data over to V5 so that you could maintain an existing PDM and translators for V5 to other softwares.

The only problem I see with that is the 3DX platform is set to replace V5 software within the coming years. I believe Catia V5 replaced Catia V4 in 1998, but V4 was supported until 2004.

Either way, Catia V5 still has a few years. I personally speculate that DS isn’t confident enough with 3DX to replace V5, even if all of their existing customers already adopted the platform. If you recall, Land Rover had an iPLM project centered around 3DX, and so far it has been troublesome, because they’re still codependent on V5.