It’s been a busy month for Dassault, a notoriously busy company to begin with. The company announced its fourth quarter and year-end results for 2019; kicked off its first 3DExperience World conference, which the company has introduced to replace its very popular Solidworks World conference. Dassault’s results for the end of 2019 show income from the Medidata acquisition, but there … Read more
Autodesk has numerous small projects for its generative design program, including its collaboration with Volkswagen on a showcase 1962 hippie bus, ongoing work with Airbus, and a collaboration with General Motors on auto parts. Generative design allows designers to define constraints for a part, the elements that are absolutely required such as strength, thermal limits, size, material properties and then … Read more
Electronics is becoming a check-off capability for companies comparing CAD capabilities. Among cloud CAD competitors, most notably Autodesk and PTC (after its acquisition of OnShape), electronics design is needed to fill out the capabilities of online CAD in comparison to its older, more earth-bound competitors. Onshape added electrical design in 2018. SolidWorks teamed with Altium to offer a collaborative tool … Read more
CAD market shipments increased 9% sequentially from 2018 to 2019
Performance: relative to its predecessor and the most comparable Nvidia offering
There are nearly three dozen CAD programs on the market that work like AutoCAD, but there is only one that comes close to AutoCAD's market size. Autodesk executives speak of 10–12 million versions of AutoCAD in use, of which 3/4 are, they suggest, pirated ones. So it may come as a surprise to learn that German software developer Graebert claims … Read more
Onshape is first SaaS platform to unite CAD with data management and collaboration tools
Citilab’s CUBE simulation software provides predictive transportation technology, helping engineers and planners to design and optimize safe, efficient, effective, and environmentally sustainable mobility systems. Bentley's Year in Infrastructure (YII) is primarily a celebration and demonstration of the work the company’s customers are doing. Refreshingly, the company is able to demonstrate its tools at work in real-world applications and the … Read more
It’s the season for new CAD releases and given that it’s also 2020, every release is feeling momentous in its own special way. Vectorworks has found strong points of differentiation for its tools and this release makes the most of them. Data visualization enables teams to communicate and understand design, its attributes, and the effects of changes. (Source: Vectorworks) … Read more
What a company says about its strategy and its attitude towards its customers is always important. SolidWorks says every new release is built around customer requests. With the release of SolidWorks 2020, the company’s PR says, it has dealt with “thousands of enhancement requests.” But, just as important, this new release is also “seamlessly connecting” to the 3DExperience platform meaning … Read more
At its annual DevCon event held this year in Milan, the Open Design Alliance brought its membership up to date on the significant development the organization has been doing at its members' behest. Established in the 90s by a group of companies competing with Autodesk in the CAD field, the ODA’s charter was to create an open option of DWG, … Read more
Autodesk Inventor is 20 years old. The company has released Inventor 2020 and in recognition that it's the 20th anniversary of Autodesk’s entry into the parametric CAD market to compete with market leader Pro/Engineer and upstart SolidWorks. At 20, Inventor is still one of the top choices in the segment but the engineering design field has changed with challenges from … Read more
