OK, I made it to the tenth page of the SW forum thread before my attention lapsed to more interesting things, like snow falling. Zoomed to the end and it’s at 35 pages! Yow! Folks have lots to say about all this. I’m probably skipping over some juicy drama, but I think I’m good with that.
You missed a good one then. 
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Ah, yes, page 34. Excellent, you save me lots of time for a decent laugh. Thanks!
. . . and how did that work out? Find much enlightenment?
Overall, I’m part of the WTF crowd when it comes to the 3DExperience. But I do think it contains some important pieces (if you can ever find them in that pile of junk more than once), especially Collaborative Designer for SolidWorks cloud based PDM (or PLM). The name is ridiculous and its seems the product launch was poor (I don’t know, maybe they put all their promotion into 3DX World? Which I didn’t go to), but the PDM seems good! For example: https://youtu.be/t8w3mBpCAVM?t=619 It has integration with regular SolidWorks, as well as Creo, Inventor, Altium, Solid Edge, and Catia. So far it looks like what I’ve been waiting for in PDM, but there are many details I don’t know. It costs about $1500/year for a CAD user, and there are two cheaper levels below that (you can add or remove “roles”).
FTFY matt
I haven’t watched the youtube, but I’ve seen enough demos and they never show you the downside or what isn’t ready for production use…They always leave that to the user to figure out. So, if you do decide you are interested, I’d highly recommend you extensively test it.
That’s the thing, as a product for collaboration, some of the apps don’t look half bad. But then they tried to shoehorn in this idea of a “Forum or Community” to replace the existing forums and what do you know, it stinks for that. They should stick to product design and making it easier to work together on products. Why waste resources on forums when that’s not what you do.
The new official SW forum is an epic example of foot shooting. Where crickets will live and chirp loudly. Sad!
I posted in another thread somewhere, no idea at this point because I’m bouncing between the three forums.
3DSwym is little more than a “Collaboration” app that is included in all the "3DExpereince suite of programs. If you got DEsignX or any of the other things you’d get 3Dswym. It’s essentially an internal, to the software, DS’s version of “Microsoft Teams”.
What you see at the 3Dswym forums is merely the atrocity that exists because they tried to use that app to support a large public forum…which it was never intended to do.
JLR is supposed to be using 3DEXPERIENCE for the development of product. That was announced back in 2018. I haven’t heard anything on how that is going. You also had an annoucement from Safran (French aviation) in 2019 and Lockheed in 2019 as well. Once again, haven’t heard boo from anyone in these organizations.
It does look like it has a huge internal communities of customers and suppliers:
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So technically it can handle the traffic.
Question is how it handle a nest of sub-communities.
Or we’ll see 1000 new communities on the left to scroll?
Also seeing Ryan has 1400 notification is concerning.
Earlier discussion on this essentially said that “Internal communities” where used at the company level to essentially make groups of teams. In essence you’d organize it much like your company is organized. CEO might be part of several management Communities but would not be part of individual project communities. You’d probably break each community down to 0-10/15 people or so.
The communities that had large numbers of members would essentially end up being “Informational” communities not “functional” communities. So you might have a company wide community that everyone in the company was part of but essentially it would be meant to be a one way communicator like a company wide e-mail. If you’ve ever been involved or seen a company wide e-mail were people decided to “Reply to all” and try to carry on conversations…well that is what 3Dsywm is as a large public forum.
Looks like it’ll be a long list of forever post:
Is the new forum for Solidworks up and running over at Swym? I know they are suppose to nuke the old one tomorrow but didn’t notice if the new one was up yet. I did a search, didn’t find it.
Alin has obligations, please do not throw him in the bunch. He does with what he can control.
Doesn’t Alin work for a VAR? They really have no choice but to spread the word and drink the Koolaid as their livelihood depends on it. I’d say there’s several VARS posting on the 3DSywm forum that already existed. My guess is that they were told that doing so would be a good idea.
I noted in an earlier post that a significant portion of the traffic over there was DS and VAR employees compared to the old forum which was almost entirely users.
Looks like there’s something there now. I tried clicking on a post by Ryan Priddy to see how to set the search to the “forum” page, and this is what I got:
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I’m inviting over here to discuss it…
Looks like I’ve got to be an author to post anything…And the box to request that is just “Loading” after I clicked to send the request…Oh, well…
Alin work in Javelin.
I won’t blame him for trying.
I do admire his positivity.
Respect for life.
Yeah that wasn’t there earlier. Just did a test post…guess what no mandatory tags. In short at this point you’ll never be able to find new content based on a certain group. Looks like all the old posts have tags though.