To me the jury is still out on the whole “database” thing, but it sounds a bit awkward. Making the switch from what you do today to what DS is asking you to do next year will be more of a disruption with less benefit than switching to some other brand of CAD. CAD providers have to find a way to make their changes within their customer’s processes. I’m all for forward movement and improvement, but I also realize that design and manufacturing cannot just gut their process whenever the CAD vendor has a new idea. Your subscription money for the last 4 years has been going into this V6 project. There is very little good news in this article for SolidWorks users. I would be willing to bet that customers changing from SolidWorks to V6 have even more problems than V5 users. Next generation SolidWorks may not have the same problems that the current version of Catia has, but the article spells out the difficulties of DS customers who are changing from V5 to V6. This means of course that the “next generation” of SolidWorks will look much more like Catia than SolidWorks. It is well established by now that the “next generation” of SolidWorks will be announced in 2013, and will be based on the Enovia V6 backbone (database) and the Catia CGM V6 geometry kernel. The cloud should really just be a solution for people who need it: Companies with widely distributed design facilities need it.Īlthough SolidWorks and Catia don’t have much in common right now, if you plan to move forward with the “next generation” of SolidWorks software, you are going to be affected by the current state of the Catia universe. Notice also that Wolfe mainly avoids the cloud issue. This article sees things mainly from an administrator’s point of view, which is valuable, because that’s where most of the work will be if you have to switch. Anyway, you need to read the whole article, and I’ll add some comments here.

There has been very little that helps SolidWorks users to get a real vision into what the “next generation” product is going to look like, or how it will be to work with.So when I read this article entitled “Is Catia V6 over the hump?”, I knew this wasn’t just another hot-headed knee-jerk reaction. Real info from real Catia V6 users has been hard to come by. He’s a real engineer, and one of the few guys in the industry who deserves real respect.

He’s not just a press guy, and not just another industry wonk. I’ve only written about him once before on Dezignstuff, which was in reference to some comments he made at a press conference in Barcelona asking that a FEA demo’s boundary conditions be made more realistic.

I was impressed with the insight he offered to a stranger who accosted him in an elevator. We talked about some topic I don’t remember, although it was important to me at the time. We shared an elevator at a CAD conference a few years ago. He’s a consulting analyst with Jon Peddie Research, in which capacity he wrote an article for the GraphicSpeak blog. Wolfe has been around the industry a long time, and is well qualified to speak on the topic of product development software.

I got a note from a friend directing me to a site that has been source of good information and opinion on CAD industry goings-on, GraphicSpeak.

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