This has been an uphill battle from the beginning but would open up many possibilities for interoperability with not just the Catia apps but also all of Simulia including Abaqus, XFlow and the other brands. After these two but possibly slower will be the changing from the Parasolid kernel (Siemens) to Catia‘s Convergence Geometric Modeler (Dassault Systèms) for SolidWorks. I would love to see Abaqus/CAE‘s option to choose the navigation style as a 3DExperince preference across all apps on the platform. I actually believe Catia on the platform looks more like SolidWorks than Catia! Unfortunately, to date the model manipulation (rotation, pan and zoom) has stuck with Catia’s paradigm over SolidWorks’. I have seen this influence in Catia on the 3DExperience platform. Conversely, SolidWorks’s GUI has always been my preferred choice among CAD or FEA programs. My prediction is that SolidWorks PDM will be phased out to 3DExperience, because one of it’s many tricks is CAD aware PDM making SolidWorksPDM redundant. Of course the integration will get stronger with time but how that evolves will be very interesting. How this integration will play out is still unknown, at least to me. From the 3DExperience webpage you are also able to launch a variety of apps which now includes SolidWorks.
To me SolidWorks stands out not only for being the newcomer but keeping it’s original red logo. It’s rather surreal to see that you can even launch Catia‘s many apps. From SolidWorks 2020 you are now able to launch any app on the 3DExperience platform. Go start a business that uses the technologies available today that solves the customer’s problems.’ Now 23 years after the acquisition and 10 years after ‘killing SolidWorks’ we can see how this has evolved to the 3DExperience taking the place of Enovia as the brain of the platform and SolidWorks and Catia being apps within that ecosystem. You are a startup and your job is to kill SolidWorks. In general this was not received well but in an interview with Deelip, Jeff was able to elaborate that a new project team was being created ‘We were basically going to spin you out. Most infamous was at SolidWorks World 2010 where then SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray said ‘Let’s kill SolidWorks the way SolidWorks has killed some other companies’. Back then there were discussions on how SolidWorks, Catia V5 and Enovia would work together.
This has been a long time coming since, Dassault Systèms acquisition of SolidWorks in 1997.
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