![]() ![]() In fact, it was often promoted as an advantage in terms of compatibility. To wander off a bit, back in ancient history geometry engines were built by independent companies and so it was necessarily a problem if competing products were built on the same engines. Solidworks is built on the Parasolids engine, which is the same engine Siemens uses for its tools. In addition, Topology Optimization can offer ways to reduce the mass of a part and retain manufacturability.ģDExperience is built on Dassault’s Geometry engine, CGN, which drives Dassault’s high-end products such as Catia, Enovia, Simula, etc. Users can sketch an idea of what they can to accomplish with end points and the software can suggest a design. XDesign can speed up the design processor by offering suggestions for design via shadow guides. As an experienced Solidwork user that doesn’t seem like such a surprise, but Gebo said he found much to like in xDesign and also he welcomes cross over of innovation between Solidworks and xDesign. Gabor said he was able to become productive in less than half a day. At SWW, Solidworks user group leader Ed Gebo was introduced as a typical Solidworks user who has picked up xDesign. It’s easy to learn and offers a short time to productivity. The message of xDesign, a new cloud-based CAD program, is that it is a “gateway drug” for designers. There have been promises of a beta before, but Bassi has also said Solidworks intends to get it right, with xDesign. It’s been a long introductory period for the product, which has seemed imminent for years. It’s up to the company to make customers want to cross those bridges.Īt Solidworks World 2018, Bassi said xDesign, introduced in 2016, is making its way to a public beta this year. At Solidworks World 2018, Bassi called these tools like Conceptual Designer, Industrial Designer, and xDesign bridges to 3DExperience. It is cloud based and it has a great deal of intelligence built in. Solidworks xDesign has been introduced as the most enticing carrot yet. Users have been interested, but they’ve balked at add-on subscription pricing. In previous years, customers have been offered productivity tools including Conceptual Designer and Industrial Designer, both based on 3DExperience and cloud. Solidworks users aren’t quite sure why they want 3DExperience, and the carrots Dassault has waggled in front of their noses haven’t had a big effect. It’s a process, customers using Dassault’s high-end tools can’t afford to break their systems and so they wait until Dassault comes to them, with transitional tools, formats, translators, etc. ![]() That said, Dassault has had its own challenges moving customers from its V5 platform to V6, the underlying platform for 3DExperience, which was introduced in 2009. Dassault has been telling customers that there will come a day when all Dassault customers will be united on a common platform, and that platform will be 3DExperience. It is cloud based and built on Dassault’s 3DExperience platform. One of the most anticipated updates at Solidworks world is the ongoing development of xDesign, an alternative but complementary CAD program in the Solidworks family. Still, this is a transition that takes time and Dassault is very determined. Mainstream users are wary of the cloud and they’re unconvinced of the benefits of the 3DExperience products offered to them. Dassault wants all its products to fit into the 3DExperience platform, and someday it might get that wish. His point is that as these changes are happening, it’s important that human expressiveness and creativeness is not lost in the process. and he cited the McKinsey paper “Manufacturing’s Next Act” to describe the revolution happening in how products are designed, prototyped, made and connected. Solidworks CEO Gian Paolo Bassi used the term Industrial Renaissance to build on the universal themes of Industrie/Industry 4.0, or the next Industrial Revolution, etc. Entering into public beta this year, xDesign is being considered as a bridge from Solidworks to 3DExperience. ![]()
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