{"id":1588,"date":"2010-08-25T05:55:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2010-08-24T17:45:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T01:45:47","slug":"social-media-aided-cad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Aided CAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies like <a title=\"Salesforce.com\" href=\"http:\/\/salesforce.com\">Saleforce.com<\/a> are changing the very nature of business communications by embedding social media technology within their products (<a title=\"Salesforce.com chatter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/chatter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chatter<\/a>).  There are engineering software companies that also understand the value of this new media and how to use it within CAD and PDM applications.\u00a0 Communication between collaborating engineers doesn&#8217;t have to be limited to face-to-face or phone conversations, as these methods are not always practical.<\/p>\n<p>Though seemingly not as developed as solutions from Salesforce.com, PTC (maker of Pro Engineer and Windchill)\u00a0 is offering a &#8220;<a title=\"PTC Pro Engineer Windchill wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deskeng.com\/articles\/aaarjt.htm\" target=\"_blank\">repackage<\/a>&#8221; of social-networking features as  part of a product development system, termed Social Product Development.\u00a0 This takes several forms under the <em>ProductPoint <\/em>label.\u00a0 Included in their set of solutions is a wiki style design log and a chat application which may increase communication between engineering collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>The model-wiki function offered by PTC in ProductPoint is a critical idea.\u00a0 At first glance, there doesn&#8217;t seem like much of a difference between it and SolidWorks&#8217; Design Journal.  However, the ability to access the model-wiki from the PLM environment is a big bonus that takes design collaboration to new levels that are becoming increasing important in the engineering environment.  There can still be drawbacks to this approach.  Seriously, to have true wiki functionality would require a lot of crazy coding within the wiki.\u00a0 The PTC model-wiki strikes a good next-step to improve design collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The instant message functionality seems a bit redundant.\u00a0 There are hundreds of chat programs now available.\u00a0 I&#8217;m left wondering if yet another one is necessary and if it is really all that useful to have it embedded inside of my CAD application.<\/p>\n<p>Even still, there is something else compelling about bringing social product development into product design.\u00a0 The file lock, unlock and out-of-date pop-up notifications (MS Office style) seem like they can be extremely useful.\u00a0 Another impressive development is the collaboration workspace.\u00a0 The PTC promotional video is worth a look to get a sense of how they&#8217;ve implemented these concepts within the design process:<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3annAzYa5Ko?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies like Saleforce.com are changing the very nature of business communications by embedding social media technology within their products (Chatter). There are engineering software companies that also understand the value of this new media and how to use it within CAD and PDM applications.\u00a0 Communication between collaborating engineers doesn&#8217;t have to be limited to face-to-face &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Media Aided CAD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,973],"tags":[1135,1134,498,1042,1133],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-review","category-video","tag-pro-engineer","tag-proe","tag-ptc","tag-social-media","tag-windchill"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Social Media Aided CAD - SolidWorks Legion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social Media Aided CAD - SolidWorks Legion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Companies like Saleforce.com are changing the very nature of business communications by embedding social media technology within their products (Chatter). There are engineering software companies that also understand the value of this new media and how to use it within CAD and PDM applications.\u00a0 Communication between collaborating engineers doesn&#8217;t have to be limited to face-to-face &hellip; Continue reading &quot;Social Media Aided CAD&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolidWorks Legion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-08-25T13:55:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"fcsuper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@swsuper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swsuper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"fcsuper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"fcsuper\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/859d9f25668554f7193852892dbad92b\"},\"headline\":\"Social Media Aided CAD\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-08-25T13:55:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588\"},\"wordCount\":339,\"commentCount\":12,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/859d9f25668554f7193852892dbad92b\"},\"keywords\":[\"Pro Engineer\",\"Proe\",\"PTC\",\"Social media\",\"Windchill\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Product Review\",\"video\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588\",\"name\":\"Social Media Aided CAD - SolidWorks Legion\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-08-25T13:55:57+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Social Media Aided CAD\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/\",\"name\":\"SolidWorks Legion\",\"description\":\"SolidWorks related topics!\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/859d9f25668554f7193852892dbad92b\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/859d9f25668554f7193852892dbad92b\",\"name\":\"fcsuper\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/310185_10150356792820560_1654177_n.jpg?fit=153%2C153\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/310185_10150356792820560_1654177_n.jpg?fit=153%2C153\",\"width\":153,\"height\":153,\"caption\":\"fcsuper\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"description\":\"As a drafter, mechanical designer and CAD engineer, I've been in the mechanical design field since 1991. For the first 8 years of my career, I was an AutoCAD professional. I utilized AutoLISP and many other AutoCAD customization features to streamline drafting activities for 6+ drafters and designers. I authored several custom functions, one of which was published in the March 1997 issue of Cadalyst Magazine. Since 1998, I've been used SolidWorks non-stop. I've worked to utilize the SolidWorks' user environment to simplify drafting and design activities for 20+ engineers. I've created this website to provide current information about SolidWorks from a variety of contributors. More recently, I am now employed by Dassault Systemes as SOLIDWORKS Sr. Product Definition Manager to improve drawing, annotation and MBD related areas.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swsuper\"],\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?author=2\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Social Media Aided CAD - SolidWorks Legion","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Social Media Aided CAD - SolidWorks Legion","og_description":"Companies like Saleforce.com are changing the very nature of business communications by embedding social media technology within their products (Chatter). There are engineering software companies that also understand the value of this new media and how to use it within CAD and PDM applications.\u00a0 Communication between collaborating engineers doesn&#8217;t have to be limited to face-to-face &hellip; Continue reading \"Social Media Aided CAD\"","og_url":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588","og_site_name":"SolidWorks Legion","article_published_time":"2010-08-25T13:55:57+00:00","author":"fcsuper","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@swsuper","twitter_site":"@swsuper","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"fcsuper","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588"},"author":{"name":"fcsuper","@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/859d9f25668554f7193852892dbad92b"},"headline":"Social Media Aided CAD","datePublished":"2010-08-25T13:55:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588"},"wordCount":339,"commentCount":12,"publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/859d9f25668554f7193852892dbad92b"},"keywords":["Pro Engineer","Proe","PTC","Social media","Windchill"],"articleSection":["Product Review","video"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588","url":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588","name":"Social Media Aided CAD - SolidWorks Legion","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-08-25T13:55:57+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1588#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Social Media Aided CAD"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/","name":"SolidWorks Legion","description":"SolidWorks related topics!","publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/859d9f25668554f7193852892dbad92b"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/859d9f25668554f7193852892dbad92b","name":"fcsuper","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/310185_10150356792820560_1654177_n.jpg?fit=153%2C153","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/310185_10150356792820560_1654177_n.jpg?fit=153%2C153","width":153,"height":153,"caption":"fcsuper"},"logo":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"description":"As a drafter, mechanical designer and CAD engineer, I've been in the mechanical design field since 1991. For the first 8 years of my career, I was an AutoCAD professional. I utilized AutoLISP and many other AutoCAD customization features to streamline drafting activities for 6+ drafters and designers. I authored several custom functions, one of which was published in the March 1997 issue of Cadalyst Magazine. Since 1998, I've been used SolidWorks non-stop. I've worked to utilize the SolidWorks' user environment to simplify drafting and design activities for 20+ engineers. I've created this website to provide current information about SolidWorks from a variety of contributors. More recently, I am now employed by Dassault Systemes as SOLIDWORKS Sr. Product Definition Manager to improve drawing, annotation and MBD related areas.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog","https:\/\/x.com\/swsuper"],"url":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?author=2"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}