Walking the floor at SolidWorks World 2011 in San Antonio I saw some outstanding examples of cool product design, and heard more cool stories and great discussions about 3D design and product innovation in the breakout sessions. But what really got my attention was the NASA story. Jim Lovell and Gene...
In case you missed it, earlier this week ShapeSpace released a connector for their 3D Geometric Search to Aras . This brings a powerful new ability to visually search and select parts using a graphical interface instead of your typical list metaphor. It uses geometric indexing and retrieval algorithms...
In a typical 10,000 person company there are probably 50-100 full-time 3D CAD engineers. So how come these few CAD users and their CAD software vendors so often drive the selection of an enterprise PLM system that will likely touch thousands of users around the world? Why do the needs of these few weigh...