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Posted by Joe Lipple on 2nd February 2010
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Dispatch from SolidWorks World: James Cameron, engineering manager?

You may think of James Cameron as a hopeless romantic or a sci-fi nerd, but an engineering manager? At this morning’s keynote presentation at SolidWorks World, that’s just how he fancied himself. When you think about it, he’s delivered some truly amazing products over the years. In addition to the movies, he’s also very involved [...]

Posted by Joe Lipple on 2nd February 2010
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Dispatch from SolidWorks World: Solid Clouds?

At the main stage session on the first day of SolidWorks World 2010 we got a sneak preview of “CAD in the cloud.” What? You can’t do that!!!  CAD will NEVER work on anything but desktop computers.  Right? Apparently, Dassault’s vision is expanding from “professional designers” to all “professionals.” Interesting vision–and an interesting demo.  We [...]