Anyone else thinking about going? Are any you thinking of presenting? What is a topic that you’d like to learn more about?
Here’s the only paper that will help.
Hey, don’t knock it! There was a “run” on that stuff at the beginning of the pandemic, remember? 
I made sure to stock up when the pandemic started, because that paper is one of the things I didn’t want to go without!
So is 3D Experience World the same as solidworks world? Is it all going to be 3Dexperiance topics?
Yes. SWX Desktop is being relegated to the junk drawer from DSS’ point of view. <()>
They knew no one would show for a conference on just 3dx so they co-opted SWWorld for their nefarious plan. I’ve never been to 3dxWorld but from looking at the videos and sessions, Desktopworks is getting less and less attention. They are determined to shovel this excrement down our throats.
SWWorld used to be the rock star event for SolidWorks. While other CAD conferences were stuffy executive/VP events for stroking EGOs, SWWorld was exciting and showed off cool stuff with a more laid back feel. It went from being AC/DC to some corporate created wanna be boy band…xWorks anyone? <()> https://super.solidworks.com/
Paper?
The whole website is text book 101 what’s not to do.
Well unless getting user payment method then lock them out preventing them to un-subscript is trending.
Or sometime re-subscript.
Nope, not a chance.
Wasn’t there meant to be a presentation last year about 3DSwym vs here/elsewhere that got pulled at the last minute?
Yes.
If a ‘basic forum’ can put their platform to shame so much that they remove an entire presentation, you’d think they’d have figured they’re not going the right direction.
Instead, they double down on it and name the entire convention around the platform.
I think Arthur’s question was genuine. I presented at several SWWorlds, but wouldn’t consider 3dx-whatever-it-is.
Just so you know, Siemens has kind of gone the same way. For a few short years, they had a special event for Solid Edge, and now it has been rolled back into the overall Siemens Digital Industry Software show (Realize), where it is just an afterthought really. I’ve been to a couple of those, and while it’s enlightening to see what everybody is doing, there really wasn’t much on what I was doing. The mainstream specific events were definite shorts and sandals kind of events, but the overall show is more of a slacks and button down shirt kind of thing. I just don’t fit in to that kind of crowd.
It was, most answers were genuine but blunt.
I’ve never presented before so I’m not going to start presenting in a convention about something that dearly cranks me. There are a few questions I do have, though I doubt they’ll ever be answered directly, I’ve already asked countless times. Most answers are “That’s above my paygrade”.
I’d like to learn what they’re doing to fix the mess they’ve created in the last year and a half or so, are they genuinely listening to their customers? If at least they were even half honest about the entire intent behind all of their doings, it would be a much easier pill to swallow.
What is their vision/opinion on what AutoDesk and Epic Games are working on?
Why have most bridges for direct communication with Dassault employees been ‘destroyed’? VARs can only do so much before they end up turning back to Dassault.
Is SolidWorks desktop going to be removed? Yes or no, nothing more. I don’t want some garbage speech that avoids the question, I want an answer.
AlexLachance Solidworks Desktop as we know it is gone by 2030. I don’t have any definitive answer from DDS HQ or anything but it really is just the way things have to be. I mean when you look at the “What’s New PDF” over the course of the past 10 years it has steadily gotten smaller and smaller with less and less new features being added. There was a time when I REALLY looked forward to alpha and beta testing to see what new things were coming (granted this is circa 2000 - 2010) but since then it’s just been a slooooooooooooooooooow downhill ripping off of the duct tape. They’ve been trying to slip the 3DXP platform under users toes, thinking they wouldn’t notice, and then…straight to users face say “No idea what you’re talking about we would NEVER do that!!!”
At the last SLUGME (Which by far is THE dumbest name of ALL time!!!) there was not one presentation shown actually using Solidworks Desktop!!! Not one. I mean if that’s not a sign of what’s to come then hey don’t also tell me water is wet either. This is also the strangest part, that DDS is acting like this isn’t want they’re doing when their actions say it’s actually 100% is what is.
The ONLY reason why I’ve gone the past 10+ years is to catch up with long time friends that I’ve made over the years.
I’ll be 69 then. I’m not sure when I’ll retire, but almost certainly at 70, if not sooner. I can limp along for a year or two with whatever is the last version of Desktop until then. After that it will be someone else’s problem.
Problem here is that they are trying to shoehorn people into something they don’t want… So, their customers are going to have to make a decision, be forced to migrate to a cloud based platform by a company that neglected their needs or choose another path. How many of those customers will make the decision to move to the cloud with DSS?
In somewhat similar news, I went to a conference recently where for the first time ever our Department is dropping a Bentley product because they refused to address any of their concerns. They are going to go through the pain of migrating all of their existing data because their needs were so neglected.
Decisions get made and it’s not just current money that matters. Can transitioning data over to a new system be costly? Yes, but if the company has been actively hostile to the customers’ needs for years, there’s going to be an unknown cost dealing with that company going forward.
I think somebody made the analogy that this is like watching a car accident in slow motion…I agree…
Actions always are more important than words. What actions have they made that have led you to believe that they aren’t on the path to eliminate SW desktop? Honest question… Because it sure seems to me that all of the recent actions they’ve made are ALL toward the other direction.
It doesn’t hurt to at least look into the alternatives and do a little leg work on an exit strategy.
Ours may be IV because they’ve made an effort to go after the transportation industry and SE hasn’t moved in that direction, AFAIK. For what we do IV will probably be fine (or better, right Frederick_Law?)
I’m skeptical that will happen. We use DesktopWorks with Windchill…which will never work together with CloudWorks. Our company isn’t likely to switch PLM systems either. There are a lot of companies that mix and match CAD systems with a PLM system. These companies are the largest SolidWorks seat counts Dassault have so to completely drop DesktopWorks means losing a lot of customers.
mattpeneguy finally we can be friends LOL
If anyone read the SWYM, all those “I can’t login”, “What happen to my subscription?”, “I paid twice and still can’t download”, are scary.
Updates are forced onto customers. You can’t say you have important project and delay the update.
Eric did say it’s only small number compare to the whole user base.
If SW users are used to skip SP, they’ll totally avoid the monthly update.