SOLIDWORKS World 2019 – Intro to 3DEXPERIENCE.works

Oleg-
I hope your time at SWW2019 was successful.

It is interesting, but no surprise, that Dassault is pushing the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, again this year. This year it is with a new brand 3DEXPERIENCE.WORKS. This appears to be the bundling of the cloud-based ERP system DS acquired earlier with the newer cloud-based designs. It provides a more complete “business” system to organizations. Is this enticing enough for small and medium business (that are young to CAD) to make the jump to combined IT vendor- Dassault Systems? Time will tell.

Will it move those married to the desktop version of SW? My opinion, only if there is enough business reasons or business pain to do so. It’s the business reasons that DS needs to educate their customers about. The business pain can be applied at any time, by DS. At some point, DS is going to have say, “We can’t afford to continue to develop two different systems based on two different technologies.” I thought we heard Bernard say this back around 2009 when 3DEXP was fist introduced.

If Cloud based system is the only system in the future …… they need to make giant leaps in usability and stability. Right now Solidworks barely has the HP I need. Making it dependent on bandwidth is horrible Idea. Can I still work on a international flight, can I still work behind the Chinese firewall, Can I still work from a small town in Europe with government control internet that trickles through. Why have they change User experience that 6 million users have gotten used too to mush a brand new one, with a brand new work flow. Why did they hijack what was once the most useful 3 days of the year to make it a week long commercial for there cloud based solution that they don’t even seem to have a handle on given the odd names and redundancy? How many times was the answer in a usability session, “because that the way we do it in Solidworks” ………….. When DSS bought Solidworks the Lead balloon was floated about merging Catia and SWW into a family product it was demolished by users ….. each year they keep push pushing until this year the bomb was dropped. It seems odd to not appreciate and respect your customer base better. The is DSS system NEW COKE, or the Verizon only for new customer deal…. massive miss step and miss read. Yes they have a Kernel issue, Yes cloud based systems like Fusion360 and OnShape (basically a better version of Xdesign already) are nipping at it toes. But nipping ….. good god you have 6million users and at least 2million subscribers if not 3. If your going to go cloud based or common Kernel add least copy your own successful work flow and UI…. don’t stuff a new one down your users throats as they are likely to spit back up for a product that was wise enough too.

I think, you’re right. However, DS position -we need to start. So, 10 years ago, DS first said “cloud”. Nobody said current version is going to die. So you still have current Solidworks with existing UI and Workflows. What’s wrong with that?