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Monday General Session

February 2nd, 2010 |

Hey there! Today was the first really active day for me at SolidWorks World. I’ve been out and about all day since 7:00 am. The first General Session of the week was lots of fun, and full of interesting sneak peeks of what may become the future of SolidWorks. Jeff Ray, DS SolidWorks CEO opened the session, of course, and was soon joined by Bernard Charles, Dassault Systemes CEO. I am not sure, but I don’t remember seeing Mr. Charles at last SolidWorks World. I may be wrong, but I think I heard someone say that this was, in fact, his first SolidWorks World. It doesn’t matter, really; it’s just great he could make it to this one.

I took a few pictures during the session. Some of them have captions, so you get an idea of what was going on. I think what made this particular session really interesting for me was the fact that they actually gave us a very real sneak peek at the (not so far I hope) future of SolidWorks. We learned that Mark Biasotti, Mark Schreider and Joe Dunne have been secretly working together, developing all sorts of technology that will allow users, among many other things, to access SolidWorks anytime and from anywhere, regardless of OS, or even hardware. They are talking about putting SolidWorks in the cloud, just like many other software applications are already doing. This would make it easier for users to work from virtually anywhere, even a Mac or an iphone, without needing to install SolidWorks in their machines or anything. Collaboration would also be made simple this way, since all users in one team would be able to communicate effortlessly. Having SolidWorks in the cloud would also mean the end of lost data, since all information would still be there and accessible, even in the unfortunate event that our computer crashes or there’s a power outage. The future also includes new and improved ways to search for a document, mates that more likely reflect real life interaction between parts, more intelligent direct editing tools, and lifelike modeling of items such as springs, o-rings and gaskets, to account for their compression or expansion.

Jeremy Luchini and Mike North showed up with a really cool hot rod they just designed and built using SolidWorks and that is 100% electric. You can help Jeremy decide what to build next by submitting your design ideas at his new website http://www.letsgodesign.tv

I would go on writing and writing about the general session and the training sessions I attended today… plus the CSWP event… but I’m extremely tired and tomorrow I have to get up early to start all over again.