No discussion in this thread of the FACT that it looks pretty clear
> that SolidWorks has won the market and that a major shift has just
> started to occur in places like California where a major machining job
> shops in San Diego dumped 5 seats of Mastercam and went with the
> integrated solutions of SolidWorks and OpenMind Hypermill. That shop
> would be San Diego's 5th Axis CNC. When I say dumped I mean dumped.
> The don't use Mastercam any longer for anything period.
>
> How can Siemens NX be a factor when Siemens can't market to small
> machining job shops and leaves this up to their VAR network which
> isn't anywhere near as good or as strong as SolidWorks VAR network.
> Further, Siemens isn't making any progress in this area which leads me
> to believe that integrated solutions to SolidWorks will win out over
> Siemens NX for the foreseeable future.
>
> For those that need to seriously modify dumb solids very affordable
> solutions to do what SolidWorks can't do (direct modeling) like
> SpaceClaim are available to help one deal with SolidWorks continued
> serious limitation of working with dumb solids.
LOL! Babble on Jon, just babbling away as usual. Rattling off a bunch of buzzwords that have nothing to do with anything being discussed by the people who actually work in real shops.