Solidworks was one of the first CAD companies that said in public word “cloud”. Six years ago at SWW 2010, the news about new team and technologies were announced. Lot of things changed since that time. The landscape of CAD, PDM and PLM application is changed. The adoption of cloud technologies by CAD vendors is growing and it appears in the way new cloud application were developed and existing applications were adopted to the new cloud reality./ I* d, L p8 [7 |% m& q: Z- c; g0 M
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6 H$ f% }2 ?- A* P% @3DEXPERIENCE Xdrive is a clear step in a cloud PDM domain. According to the video, Xdrive is available in the browser as well as on the desktop. It can synchronize changes made by CAD and other applications between different computers and allows to users to work simultaneously with the data in multiple locations. You can think about Xdrive as “Google Drive for CAD”. k4 b2 M, t4 Y4 r P
& `( Z3 Z1 S' C' zSOLIDWORKS is moving forward to deliver cloud based products. It is a mix of old and new technologies. Existing SOLIDWORKS can run on virtualized desktop and use 3DEXPERIENCE Xdrive to synchronize data. Files are still in the middle of data management paradigm for these applications. At the same time, new native browser applications, according to announcement can run “on any device, at any place, at any time”. This is a slogan I’ve heard previously from Onshape browser based SOLIDWORKS XDrive will manage data. Also, a good question to ask how SOLIDWORKS Xdesign PDM features will match or outperform Onshape capabilities for simultaneous editing, revision management and branch merging.SOLIDWORKS is joined the race to deliver CAD in a browser and will compete with Autodesk and Onshape.
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