Dassault Systemes failed utterly after starting 15 years ago to convert Solidworks to a cloud app the French company gave up, and now offers Solidworks users modules based on its incompatible Catia program. Worse, the Web versions breaks Autodesk’s “design anytime, anywhere” promise by not operating with enough Web browsers.Īt least Autodesk has a mild Web version of AutoCAD available, which is so mild it can only give it away - not charge for - to subscribers. Last year’s promise that third-party add-ons could eventually run in AutoCAD Web seems rather lame. In recent conference calls, PTC execs stopped talking about Project Atlas.Īutodesk has, after all, been plugging away at the problem for more than a decade, starting when it bought a Flash version from Israel, yet still has not achieved its goal with AutoCAD, a program less capable than Creo.

PTC spent over half-a-billion dollars buying Onshape from venture capitalists who had funded the ex-Solidworks staff who programmed it, and a few short years ago promised an Onshape-like version of Creo in five to ten years. I've made the statement that I doubt PTC will be able to turn all of Creo into an Onshape-like online app, as executives have been telling financial analysts.

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