SolidWorks未来将加强与3Dexperience云计算的关联
In an interview with ENGINEERING.com, Bassi confirmed thatEarly next year, the company will announce the full lineup of products natively built on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which will be accessible to every SOLIDWORKS user.“That’s right,” said Bassi. “We will reveal the ‘Power By’ strategy which, to be exact, is the ‘connection’ of the desktop/file-based world to the services offered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.”
SolidWorks首席执行官巴斯先生在接受美国ENGINEERING.com网站采访时表示，2018年，公司在3Dexperience云计算平台上已经构建的原生态系列应用，如概念设计，工业设计等等，将免费提供给solidWorks正版用户使用（原先每个云账户每个应用每月198美元）。巴斯先生表示，没错，我们就是要连接两个这世界，基于文件的桌面软件和3Dexperience云计算。
SOLIDWORKS currently has close to half a million commercial licenses running globally, according to analyst Griffin Securities. In addition, there are a huge number of education and training licenses on the market; more than 1.5 million. Furthermore, sales of new licenses hit the 60,000 mark during 2016, which is a sensational number in this mature market.
Overall, according to Jay Vleeschouwer of Griffin, SOLIDWORKS has about a third of the world's commercial non-suite-bundled CAD systems; a larger number than, for example, Autodesk Inventor. There’s no doubt that we're talking about a big player whose software improvements are important to the world’s small and medium sized industries (SMB).
按照证券公司Griffin Securities的数据，SolidWorks现在拥有全球三分之一，年销售许可6万，这在成熟市场上可是轰动的数字。毫无疑问，Solidworks公司对于全球中小工业企业是非常重要的。
SOLIDWORKS has made several attempts to get the their community to buy into Dassault’s 3DX concept. These efforts have so far not been successful. The bridges created by Dassault—Conceptual Design, Industrial Design, browser-based Xdesign and Xdrive—have only marginally affected the way the SOLIDWORKS community works, and the uptake has been limited. Clearly this slow adoption of 3DX is a frustrating fact for both Dassault Systèmes CEO Bernard Charles, and Gian Paolo Bassi, but they have no intention of giving up. On the contrary, they are constantly searching for new ways to attract SOLIDWORKS users.
SolidWorks公司多次尝试让用户购买基于达索系统3Dexperience云的SolidWorks应用，然并卵。诸如概念设计，工业设计，基于浏览器的Xdesign和Xdriive之类的，虽然对用户的工作方式有影响，但有限。很明显，这对于达索系统首席执行官Solidworks首席执行官和SolidWorks首席执行官而言，3Dexperinece被慢慢接受是一个很沮丧的事实。不过他们并没有放弃，相反在积极寻找新方法。
“First of all, with the release of 3DX 2018x in early Q1 2018, all our desktop customers under active subscription will have free access to the My3DEXPERIENCE offer which includes, among other things, the 3DX services 3DDrive (a file-based collaboration space similar to DropBox), 3DPlay (a universal view and markup tool), Marketplace (for the contract manufacturing of 3D Printing jobs with qualified providers) and 3DSWYM (social collaboration),” said Bassi.“Secondly, SOLIDWORKS desktop users will have the option to buy 3DX Platform-based advanced services such as Non-linear simulation (Abaqus-based “Simulation Engineer”) and Zero-infrastructure, cloud-based data management called SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE Standard, Professional and Enterprise. That is based on the ENOVIA back end, and features a scalable set of solutions from PDM to full PLM. This is obviously an alternative to the on-premise solution of PDM+Manage, and is scalable to the entire enterprise.”
巴斯先生说，首先呢，2018年第一季度，会发布3Dexperience R2018x，所有采用订阅方式的桌面用户会免费使用“My 3Dexperience"，这里面包括：3DDrive（基于DropBox的网盘），3DPlay（通用视图和标记工具），Marketplace（用于合格供应商的3D打印订单式制造）和3DSWYM（社交协作）“ “其次，SOLIDWORKS桌面用户将可以选择购买基于3Dexperience平台的高级服务，如非线性分析（基于Abaqus的”Simulation Engineer“）和零基础架构，被称为SOLIDWORKS 3Dexperience的基于云的数据管理，它分为标准版 ，专业版和企业版。 这是基于ENOVIA后端，并具有从PDM到完整PLM的一系列可扩展解决方案。 这显然是PDM + Manage的内部部署解决方案的替代品，并且可以扩展到整个企业。“
For current SOLIDWORKS PDM users, the transition to Manage is quick and easy because there are no data migration hassles. That’s a strength. Although Manage has many similarities to a PLM system, I generally would characterize it as an in-between solution, with SOLIDWORKS Enterprise on one side and ENOVIA PLM on the other.
Bassi agreed. “Yes, in a way you can say Manage helps with smart products. For me, the main reason is that smart products need flexible BOMs because of their multidisciplinary complexity,” he claimed. “For instance, smart products need to manage electrical, electronic and plug-in components, many of which are supplied and not designed Therefore, flexible BOM is an important need. But you’re right, I would not characterize Manage as PLM. 'In-between’ is actually how we position it, as a nice expansion to PDM. ENOVIA is the true solution, scalable to full PLM.”
For a user with cloud ambitions who wants access to a full array of collaborative PDM functionalities, there’s still some distance to go. As it looks right now, according to Bassi, SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE Standard, Professional and Enterprise, based on the ENOVIA back end, is the most probable solution.
对于当前PDM用户而言，由于不存在数据迁移的麻烦，所以向Manage程序过渡比较容易，但是巴斯先生说他不会将Manage程序描述为PLM，它是PDM的扩展，是一种中间解决方案，两边分别是SolidWorks Enterprise PDM和ENOVIA PLM，对于想全面获得PLM云计算的用户而言，还有不小的距离，而基于ENOVIA后端的标准版专业版企业版SOLIDWORKS 3Dexperience才是最可能的解决方案。
this is a great idea with advantages in terms of producing universal BOM’s. However, the data driven model requires differences in working methods compared to the file-based odel.What may pose a problem is the different approaches to product data. While SOLIDWORKS and the majority of systems on the market apply a file-based approach, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is product data driven. In this model, called "data-driven" or “zero-file”, all data accumulates in a single database.
这对于通用BOM方面有优势，但solidworks及市场上的多数软件都是基于文件的模式，而3Dexperience则是由产品数据驱动的，被称为数据驱动或零文件模式，所有数据都在一个数据库中。
but according to Bassi, this really isn’t a problem. The world of product development constantly changes. Once, desktop 3D CAD was a revolution. Technological development is a never-ending story. If productive new ways of doing things come around, introduced by new, more capable technologies, and turns out to “do” things better than the old ones, they will prevail.
The 3DX/V6 data driven platform represents just such a technology, claims Bassi. Sooner or later, the bulk of the SOLIDWORKS community will have to go through the necessary change processes to have a toolset relevant to things like the development of smart products, IoT, software, distributed product development and manufacturing. The data driven cloud environment of 3DX fits nicely in this context.“This is actually the big added value of ENOVIA solutions on the 3DX platform: they bring file-based CAD as a first class citizen of the platform, and not only SOLIDWORKS’ product structure but also CATIA V5 and even competing CAD systems. This makes it possible, for instance, to do Design Mock Up in a hybrid environment with products coming from different file-based CADs and the native 3DX data driven product structure. Similarly, this allows users to manage a universal BOM with a consistent and unified data model.”
而巴斯表示，这根本不是一个问题，世界总在变化，桌面CAD的诞生是一场革命。但技术的进步是无止境的，如果有新方法新技术出现，并且比旧的更好，它们就会获胜。3Dexperiene v6平台就是这样的技术，迟早solidworks 社区要接受这样的变革，以获得物联网、云计算、分布式产品开发和制造所需要的工具。3Dexperience数据驱动的云计算很适合这种情况。这是ENOVIA在3Dexperiene平台上的巨大的增殖，它会优先采用基于文件的CAD系统，不仅是SolidWorks，还包括CATIAv5，甚至是竞争对手的CAD。
SOLIDWORKS’ Euro North senior territory technical manager, Mattias Robertsson said“Yes, there’s a kind of a mental barrier involved. Having your own data on your own local server gives a sense of security for many,” “When that same data is in the cloud, some people can feel that they no longer have control over the data. This is something that has to be overcome to gain access to the capabilities that modern product development demands.” “Today, there are high security standards that should contribute to such confidence. In this context we often hear that we let the bank have our money in the cloud, and that's okay. Viewed from this perspective, the whole thing–data driven or file-based–is more about a way of dealing with and structuring our files,”
SolidWorks欧元区北部高级技术经理Mattias Robertsson表示，人们通常认为数据保存在本地才是安全的。当数据保存在云中时，许多人觉得无法掌控了。这是一种精神焦虑。为了开发现代产品，就得克服。
the SOLIDWORKS users have been hard to convince. SOLIDWORKS is mainly used among smaller or mid-sized companies with limited resources. The competitive climate is tough, and every dollar invested counts. They have generally already invested close to the limit of what they can afford. New, additional solutions must therefore have a good Return on Investment (ROI), with an emphasis on quick returns.
But there’s more: by handing over data to a third party player, you always take the risk of lock-in effects that can affect the fees. A user could fear that with their data locked onto the 3DEXPERIENCE, an initially low fee could potentially result in rapidly raised price levels. At the same time, it would probably be both complicated and time consuming to switch platforms, meaning that from a short term perspective it would be more expensive to change than to remain.
SOLIDWORKS has so far underestimated the reasons that users are reluctant to migrate to the cloud and the 3DX platform. In light of this, the initiative to let active subscribers have free access to the My3DEXPERIENCE offer, including some of the 3DX services is a step in the right direction.
Solidworks用户是难被说服的（比如2016版的界面变更，光标形式的改变，用户强烈不满。最后SP4改为经典界面了事）。
使用SolidWorks的都是资源有限的中小型企业，竞争激烈，花每一分钱都是重要的，它们已经到了极限了。因此，新的解决方案必须有很好的投资回报，重点是快速回报。但更大的问题是数据要交给第三方，你就冒着被锁定了的付费风险。用户担心，数据被扣压在3Dexperience上，最初的低收费承诺演变为价格快速上涨，转换平台既复杂又费时。迄今为止，SolidWorks公司低估了用户不愿意迁移到云计算及3Dexperience平台的意愿。所以让用户免费使用My 3Dexperience服务，其中包括部分3Dexperience付费服务，这是朝正确方向迈出的一步。
Data is the oil of today’s product realization, cooperation and customer operations. Cloud based platforms and technologies are foundations in this. Accessibility anytime, anywhere and on any device isn’t just a vendor mantra; it is literally already changing the way people and companies are exchanging design insights, communicating distributed manufacturing details, supplier chain collaboration and how products are controlled in the field.
New business models are growing fast in this climate. With social product development, simulation in earlier and later phases, IoT, digital twins concepts, 3D printing, smart products, new ways of customer communications and AR/VR becoming parts of the new landscape, the data volume is growing exponentially. These are all good reasons to start the journey to collaborative, more advanced PDM, and PLM in the cloud.
这段文字强调了在当今时代采用云计算和云PDM的必要性。
The challenge for Dassault and SOLIDWORKS is to develop affordable tools that can do this. SOLIDWORKS already did it once. As a matter of fact, its basic desktop 3D CAD solution was a revolution that did exactly this: the innovation of Jon Hirschtick, Scott Harris and the other founders made 3D design affordable, and therefore accessible to the masses. In 1995,SOLIDWORKS desktop CAD was an immediate success. Over the years it has worked both ways: the SOLIDWORKS community has had an affordable solution and Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS made a lot of money. As of today, this solution still is one of Dassault Systèmes’ most important profit generators.
Why shouldn’t they be able to produce a “beyond PLM platform” for the masses?
Bassi is a man of passion, and as the technological development continues pushing in a more complex direction, such a platform may become inevitable. If SolidWorks and Dassault Systèmes do not create one, someone else will.If Bassi’s team can make that transition smoother and less expensive, build the first bridges, and solve complexity and data security issues, a wider uptake can get started.
It will be interesting to see what happens during SOLIDWORKS World 2018
达索系统和SolidWorks面临的挑战是提供这种经济实惠的工具。SolidWorks当年已经做了一次，桌面CAD解决方案是场革命。Jon Hirschtick, Scott Harris 和其它创始人使得3维设计成本低廉，因此可供大众使用。在1995年，SolidWorks桌面CAD立即获得成功。多年以来，它以两种方式工作，一方面为SolidWorks社区提供经济实惠的解决方案，另一方面为达索系统赚了很多钱。到目前为止，SolidWorks仍然是达索系统最重要的利润来源之一。所以他们为什么不为大众建立一个超越PLM的平台呢，随着技术朝着更复杂的方向发展，这样的平台需要不可避免存在，如果SolidWorks和达索系统不去做，那么其它人就会做。如果巴斯的团队能够实现更便宜更顺滑的过渡，并解决复杂转换和数据安全问题，那就有更广泛的应用。
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