New SW CEO

No, GPB is being moved up the train, Manish is being put on the back part of the train, and is going to be cut loose at some point. The SW portfolio is being demoted.

Every SW CEO (after McE) has been chosen by DS for a purpose. Jeff Ray - to put the world on notice, which he fumbled hugely. Bertrand Sicot - who no one remembers - was meant to be a better link to France, and a sign that SW was no longer an American company. Gian Carlo Bassi was brought in because he understood the development of online tools, and to continue the development in that direction, and to cement the NOT American stamp. Manish I imagine has been promoted from the technical ranks to show what a low priority SW is going to get going forward. He is different from all the other CEOs in that he doesn’t really have any non-technical executive experience. Plus, if you check out his https://www.linkedin.com/in/matangs/, he was the director of Solidworks V6 development 10 years ago during the first attempt to scuttle Solidworks (V6 is what 3DExperience was called before it was called 3DExperience).

This scuttling of Solidworks has all been in the works for over a decade. The first time they tried it, they (assume the technology) weren’t ready and had to back off. This time they are too far down the path to back off.

DS would have done much better to sell off SW, but they needed that constant revenue stream and thought they could just divert the unsophisticated users to the online product. It looks to me like someone has a personal vendetta against SW. None of this is rational from a business point of view.

My advice to people who really use CAD and value a relationship with a seller is to find another product. Lots of good stuff out there. Creo, NX, Solidedge, Inventor, Keycreator, Ironcad, VX

If you are just a serious SOLIDWORKS fanboy and can’t let go, find a version that will let you use it as long as you want, and just use it. Set out pictures of the last Solidworks world event you went to every year between Groundhog Day and Superbowl Sunday. CtrlQ, CtrlQ CtrlQ!!!

For those of you who took the blue pill, keep smiling regardless what happens. You’re going to be living in a world of oblivion until someone around you with more sense sees what’s happening to engineering due to blind loyalty to something that was gone before you were involved :smiley:

Here’s the thing. I read something on some blog (https://dezignstuff.com/whats-the-difference-between-solidworks-1995-and-solidworks-2022/) about what’s going on, and he got it mostly right. This thing that became worshipped is long gone. Solidworks the phenomenon started to die in ~2010, and has been on a forced death march since. They haven’t been able to trick the users to switch, so they are going to slowly make it more and more painful https://develop3d.com/cad/the-death-of-solidworks/

I thought killing the Solidworks user forum was one of the most overtly cynical things I could imagine, but killing the product off over the loud cries of the fanboys is just beyond the pale. I mean it’s been laid out for you several times. Anyone who is still surprised that DS is hellbent on destroying this product is blind.