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The industry-leading MCAD program SOLIDWORKS has turned itself into two products. One is the traditional version, desktop-based SOLIDWORKS that most users are familiar with. The other is called SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCEat least until you install it, when it seems to turn into SOLIDWORKS Connected. Dassault Systemes, owner of the SOLIDWORKS brand, might as well have called the two versions SOLIDWORKS Blue and SOLIDWORKS Red. One of them, Neo, has a future.

Dassault Systemes is trying very hard to show the advantages of SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE. The company has split the SOLIDWORKS division into two camps, the old SOLIDWORKS led by Manish Kumar and the new SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE headed by Gian Paolo Bassi.

Think of it as the same old SOLIDWORKS you know and love, says Jordan Tadi of the 3DEXPERIENCE camp in a demo, but with benefits.

Tadi plays the role of the wise one, the one with a future, the cloud savant. He is cajoling a somewhat skeptical buddy, Andy Barnes, toward the light.

The SOLIDWORKS of the future does indeed look like the old SOLIDWORKSif you ignore a few things. Like two visitors, Megan Manager and Don Designer (their names are clues to their roles in this skit, if you havent guessed them already), who seem to have invited themselves to the proceedings.

Megan and Don are inserted to prove the ease of collaboration with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, of which this modern version of SOLIDWORKS, is part. They could be physically anywhere, but they are able to see what you are designingand comment if they feel the need.

At this point, the demoing duo may be at the biggest risk of losing the very audience they are trying to reach and convert. How many engineers or designers appreciate working below a peanut gallery? Dont you do your best work when you can concentrate and not be interrupted? Do you want your manager to be looking over your shoulder? How about if they just tell you what they need and you can see them once again to deliver it?

But hang on. We are in a collaborative world now, people. We have competition breathing down our necks, meaning shorter design cycles, and so we need to work in parallel. And we arent always able to be physically in one room to have design reviews, handoffs have you learned nothing in the last couple of years?

The demonstrators cater to the crowd, feigning annoyance at Megan Manager, but also address the advantages that SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE offers the manager.

She doesnt even need to have SOLIDWORKS. She can see your design from a web browser. Or on her phone.

We see a web-based view and instead of a complicated CAD interface, it has easy-to-use view commands that even a manager could use. So there, your manager, CAD challenged as they might be, can still see your design, whether it is ready to be seen or not, from all anglesand offer pearls of wisdom.

Oh, joy.

Ostensibly the design of a chop saw, the demo fast forwards over all that CAD stuff. That may sound as if it is reducing the significance of CAD stuff and being demeaning to those who take CAD stuff seriously, but that is not the case. Your SOLIDWORKS prowess is understood even if it is not acknowledged. This webinar is all about what is new and exciting.

Even if collaboration is hard to sell, theres plenty of reasons to take the red pill.

For example, being on the cloud with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers these advantages:

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