Working with subtractive and additive manufacturing technologies, users have become well attuned to what best helps them in creating their projects in the most efficient ways. Our customers require very tight integration with the design phase.” There is a transformation to a complete portfolio, and platform thinking is our strategy. Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO of SOLIDWORKS, told me, “ SOLIDWORKS is known for CAD, for geometry, for being fast, efficient in geometry. (L-R) Kishore Boyalakuntla, Mark Rushton, Craig Therrien Integration in workflow is what I walked away with as the major takeaway, along with enhanced democratization of design, as this year the team behind SOLIDWORKS have taken great pains to carefully comb through features and tools that have proven to be most useful to their large and active user base. “Helping customers design and deliver mechatronics, helping customers work in and manage multi CAD environments, connect the entire enterprise, and work with additive and subtractive technologies,” Kishore Boyalakuntla, VP, Product Portfolio Management, Brand UX Leader, explained, are the themes key to SOLIDWORKS 2018 updates.
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With several big themes and myriad projects bundled into these updates, a quick overview isn’t enough to dive in to all that the industrious team behind the release has been up to I recently headed to Boston to receive a full briefing directly from the team at the North American headquarters of parent company Dassault Systèmes, and so have more information right from the source to share on what we can expect. User-favorite SOLIDWORKS recently announced software updates to the frequently-used platform for the 2018 edition.