Normally mild mannered and conservative, Anna Wood voices a concern on the minds of some SolidWorks customers. a wider range of users than just CAD specialists need to have access to geometric data as well as product meta-data.CAD is being treated as a smaller slice of product development technology, making way for “PLM”.consumables (viewers) should be available on mobile formats.We have a different set of values these days:
#Solidworks 2005 promote feature software#
The modern SolidWorks software is no longer focused on mechanical design software built by engineers, but more resembles the sprawling and modularized Pro/E. Some would even argue they’ve become somewhat out of touch and detached from the needs of real customers. SolidWorks the company is no longer an adorable underdog. Most of the things we found attractive about SolidWorks are no longer relevant. SolidEdge smells blood in the water… Anna Woodįast forward a few years to the present, and the landscape has changed dramatically. Solid Edge lost the battle internally, changing ownership several times, and never landing in a place where it was valued or could get out of the shadow of big brother Unigraphics. The arrogance of PTC killed the Pro/E software, as PTC left CAD behind to focus on Windchill (PLM). After a while, we didn’t have to prove anything to sell SolidWorks, and converting reluctant 2D users became the biggest challenge. The less expensive Windows-compliant software with the common Windows interface on affordable hardware was a breath of fresh air.
#Solidworks 2005 promote feature professional#
it was priced so more professional users could access itĭuring this time we were emerging from an era when engineering applications were expensive in the 5 or 6 digit range, and ran on expensive and hard to use Unix workstations or worse dedicated systems on proprietary OS and hardware.We had a product that we believed in, and its benefits were clear at that time: The fight was challenging, and rewarding when we won, because we were helping people solve technical problems. In those days we did not know that Pro/E would drift into irrelevance and Solid Edge into obscurity. We were the underdog, fighting Pro/E, AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, and Solid Edge. The first three years were definitely the most exciting period of that time.
I was involved in SolidWorks sales from 1997 until 2005.