Poke at SW....if not, the shoe certainly seems to fit.

Jay C. · 2003-10-24T15:55:01+00:00

Below is the opening statement in an article by...well here's thebyline: Mark Huxley is a mechanical engineering consultant who alsoserves on Cadalyst?s Editorial Advisory Board. You can reach him at the first sentence in the article below very carefully and thentake a look at the majority of the posts in this group. Go ahead, goback even before Dessault acquired SW....do a Google search. See ifthis guy isn't telling the truth. Sadly, most of us are forced to useSW, either because it is the CAD system of choice by our particularemployer or because we need to use it out of necessity, due to ourcustomers using it as their system of choice. Sometimes I think that we as users of Solidworks, are similar to thosecustomer of Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig. Those companies haveconvinced their customers to shell out money and then ask them toendure the discomfort of losing a few pound.... :-) It seems sobackwards doesn't it? Are we to remain beta-testers forever andcontinue paying maintenance fees? Unigraphics NX 2 Hard to beatEDS delivers flexible and scalable tools in its flagship CADapplication.By Mark HuxleyAt one end of the CAD spectrum is code that seems like it was writtenin someone?s garage, then turned loose on the masses, who in turn actas beta testers as long as they can endure it. At the other end arecompanies that have led the industry for decades. EDS PLM Solutions,the maker of Unigraphics NX 2, is one of those leaders (figure 1). Notonly does it develop several highly compatible CAD applications(Unigraphics, I-deas, Solid Edge), it also offers a range of PLM(product lifecycle management) solutions. For those unfamiliar withthis relatively new acronym, CIMdata defines PLM as "collaborativecreation, management, dissemination, and use of product definitioninformation across the extended enterprise from concept to end oflife." Jay....wearing a flame retardant suit ;-)

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Cliff Huprich 22 years ago

Clues? Not here !!!

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Cliff Huprich 22 years ago

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