Well AD is at it again.
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/autodesk-acquiring-ptc-onshape/504088
The only thing I use from PTC is MathCAD.
We use OnShape as one of our CAD here because students get it for free.
have SW, Fusion too
Dassault doing the same.
Should be interesting. They will have two desktop cad tools (Creo / Inventor), two cloud cad tools (Fusion / Onshape), 3 PDM tools? (Windchill, Vault, Arena). I’m sure I’ve missed something.
I guess no different than Dassault. (SolidWorks / Catia - desktop and cloud) (PDM, Manage, Enovia, eMatrix, Smarteam?)
the problem is not the acquisition, but how the merging is going to affect (or not) customers legacy data and related workflows disruption.
Or like 3d experience SW development has introduced a whole set of new bugs in the desktop version as unwanted consequence.
Autodesk is the Kmart of CAD and PTC is the BMW. I don’t see those groups of people getting along at all.
4 PDM tools… Autodesk bought a cloud PLM vendor (UpChain) a few years back and renamed it “Fusion Manage”.
Gustavo Fontana (The Federal Trade Commission should consider a subscription model for the Autodesk-PTC Deal. | Gustavo Fontana) had a good idea:
