Just curious, this product has been around for many years along with the 3DSWYM site but does any company actually use it? Sometimes I see mention of small startups but no major companies.
Since the SolidWorks userbase hasn’t really gravitated over, all of these changes seem like an attempt to convert the userbase.
Jason, that’s what I hear from an insider. It’s a conversion tactic combined with an upper level irrational belief in a vision that industry and press just do not seem to buy into.
What happened to build a good product, if it really is good at what it does, the users will come on their own. Word will get around, build up your fan base and evangelists. But you need a good and open community for that.
These executives think they are some kind of visionaries. You can hear it at 3dx World in their speeches. But they don’t have their finger on the pulse of the community, they have their hands around it’s throat.
. . . and their heads up their . . . never mind.
Case Studies：
https://www.solidworks.com/customer-stories?woc={"product"%3A["product%2F3dexperience%20design%20solutions"]}
https://www.3ds.com/insights/customer-stories?woc={"topic"%3A["topic%2Fcloud"]%2C"brand"%3A["brand%2F3dexperience"]}
I didn’t read all of those but most are startups or some obscure small company. The ones using SolidWorks looks like they were trying the conceptual product. SolidWorks is weaker in that area and rather than close that gap, they’ve developed it in 3dx.
This also poses another question. What’s the difference in 3dx Solidworks and 3dx Catia?
I too have been wondering and would like to know this information.
It’s hard to know because of all the smoke and mirrors in the messages being tossed about. I had a pretty good guess of what it looks like when this question was answered once in 3DEW2021, it was asked numerous times, I only heard it answered once. I’m paraphrasing what I understood the answer to be (if someone wants they can find the recording) but is was along these lines: it is huge and multiplying by large factors every quarter. There were no concrete data offered, only relative points with no datum. So if the number of subscriptions doubled from 2020Q2 to 2020Q3 then quadrupled (or something) from 2020Q3 to 2020Q4 that sounds like huge, impressive growth. Unless the unprovided data was that it doubled from 100 to 200 then quadrupled from 200 to 800?
I can only assume that if the numbers were truly impressive then they would be used to support claims of how wonderful the product is; just like the number of SW users is used and the number of SWW/3DEW attendees is used, because they are impressive numbers.
I’m not sure I would agree with the “Not buy into” part as much as “Haven’t migrated fully to” yet.
I’m less bullish on the “Cloud” aspect of 3DX than I am the collaboration aspect. Again not having used the software I can’t say how it works or how well it does at this. But without question being able to see, share, explain, collaborate on designs, preferably in real time is a significant advantage.
I actually think the potential for this has been even more exposed with all the “Virtual meetings” that the pandemic has forced us into. Personally virtual meetings are FAR more productive in my experience that in person meetings and virtual collaboration can be as well.
I’ve heard much better speeches in Amway events 
I agree that the C-19 changes resulting in working from home and virtual meetings have clearly demonstrated the abilities to work remotely. Easy/seamless collaboration has dramatically risen in importance. I have been watching Onshape for a good while now and as far as I can see they are doing the collaboration better than anyone else. I have a client 12 time zones away and we can both be moving the mouse on the same part to explain and understand each other.
I have another two years left on my maintenance with SWX, but after that I’ll just be keeping it as is and likely be moving to Onshape, unless I can get a partial refund and cancel my maintenance early.
Small update here - this is what I feared would come & there it is. Which makes this whole thing a total shit show for a help ‘forum’:
Even Alin takes part… I’m sad now.
Not necessarily. I’ve noticed that some of the discussions and/or questions are already being copied from the SW forum to the 3D-XYZ platform, and I saw what looks like that same post from him in the SW forum.
There is hardly any activity on any of the “Communities”. Look at CATIA or ENOVIA user communities, not much going on there, some of the posts are news stories I guess from Dassault employees. A Disasterpiece in the making.
Yes, I do use the 3DSwym platform…to post links to this forum for anyone looking for help with SW…
What’s 3DExperience and 3DSWYM? I don’t recall ever seeing either.
Ohhhh…boy, have you missed out! https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/247614
TL;DR…DSS is killing the current forum and moving it to a Facebook-type app that is locked behind a Google-proof wall, therefore will not be visible to search engines. The current content will “supposedly” be transferred, but no one is holding their breath.
Yeah, it’s super dumb. That’s the reason for the phenomenal acceleration of this site (it was born a week ago).
Jeff, that wasn’t in purple, so I can’t tell if you’re serious or not. Good to see you here by the way. Just to catch you up, SolidWorks is trading up for 3dexperience, and 3dswym is their new forum for lack of a better word. You must be working a lot to have missed out on 3dexperience and 3dswym.
Right, sorry.
What’s 3DExperience and 3DSWYM? I don’t recall ever seeing either.
On the other hand, it’s not even sarcastic. Last I’d seen, there was no “there” there.
And—thanks for setting up an alternative! Great to see so many already jumping over.
Thanks, Mike!
I just drifted into the original SW forum earlier today and hadn’t yet seen that thread—am picking my way through it now.
No surprise with any of this forum-moving stuff, right? They’ve been complaining about (and blaming) the Jive platform a long time. Even so, and back to my question, what is 3DExperience and 3DSWYM? Is it a tool that accomplishes something useful for SolidWorks users? Is it ether? Vapor? Mimed-out hand gestures? Is it a tool that accomplishes something useful for Dassault suits?
In the meantime, I’ll go back and read the rest of that thread in search of enlightenment.