Maybe Dassault Isn’t Crazy
With Dassault recently announcing the spin-off of SmarTeam V5 development to Artizone, a lot of people have opinions (and concerns) about what Dassault Systemes (DS) is doing with the ENOVIA brand these days. I can’t offer definitive answers since I don’t work for DS, but I know enough people at the ENOVIA brand that I think I have some insight to offer. The net of my thinking: Dassault is positioning itself to accelerate ENOVIA V6 development while ensuring that V5 support is strong – and that means they are not killing SmarTeam. Continue Reading
Whether it’s automating something in SolidWorks, adding functionality to your PLM implementation or increasing the computing power and flexibility of an automated process, we engineers frequently stop short of programming. Why is that? Now I admit, I cannot write a product like DriveWorks or SolidWorks EPDM (then again, I never tried). Even though I don’t have a Linux penguin sticker on my car or a shirt with the caffeine molecule on it, I’m not scared of the code (granted, I also won’t be putting that “No Fear” sticker on my car either). 
