A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

How close is the future of surface computing for CAD/PLM?

How close is the future of surface computing for CAD/PLM?
olegshilovitsky
olegshilovitsky
18 February, 2009 | 1 min for reading

I think everybody likes cool presentations … especially when they are about surface computing. So, coincidentally, I had the chance to see a few references and demos of surface computing in the context of our industry.  I think that these fascinating shows may inspire you to think further about how we can use surface computing.

First of all, in his visionary keynote technology presentation at SolidWorks World 2009 last week in Orlando, John Hirschtick, mentioned surface computing as a very important development for the  future. An example of a surface table from Microsoft was demoed in the exhibition pavilion and everyone who was interested was able to touch and move the CAD pieces by themselves, using their hands.  Thanks guys from SolidWorks APAC blog for videos!

thumb     

thumb

Another futuristic example is the usage of surface tables for enterprise searches, demoed at the FASTForward Microsoft Event. Microsoft announced the integration of the FAST product line into the next version of Microsoft SharePoint. FAST, Norwegian company was acquired by Microsoft last year.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb5N5uZjpVQ]

And, just to finish with something more practical – an example of how touch screens can be used with the existing Dassault Systemes 3DLive product demoed on DS PLM Day in Israel last year.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqH3KjzO4Y&hl=en&fs=1]

I hope you enjoyed watching these examples. I have to say that Enterprise Search was very inspiring and shows a lot of imagination about how our communication with design products could look in the future.

 

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
14 September, 2009

I had chance to write about Project Management in the past. However, I decided to get back to this topic...

27 November, 2009

I had chance to read about adoption of Enterprise 2.0. You can take a look on RearWriteEnterprise blog post here....

7 March, 2016

Last week announcement about Autodesk and Siemens PLM agreement to increase software interoperability generated waves of articles. Here are few notable...

5 August, 2019

The predict the future is an ungrateful business. The articles predicting death or disruption are coming from time to time....

6 April, 2009

Microsoft Future Data Visualization, 3D Lifelike Experience and more… A picture is worth 1000 words. We all know this… if we...

7 May, 2012

BAM…BAM…BAM… My cloud is better than your cloud. Aras PLM made a step into cloud game with a new product...

25 May, 2010

A very interesting video presenting how you can track hand motion in the virtual 3D Model. The demo prepared by Robert...

23 October, 2012

People are collecting things. Beer bottles, matchboxes, car models, etc. As you probably know, I’m collecting PLM definitions. One of...

5 June, 2015

I have an unusual post for this weekend. It is related to big data stories on my blog. Big Data...

Blogroll

To the top