Another theme of today’s General Session where potential improvements to 3D CAD, much of which is cloud computing based.\u00a0 These include collaboration to allow more than one person to edit the same model at the same time.\u00a0 Searches to use data from the database instead of making models from scratch.\u00a0 Bring a “lifelike experience” (soon to be\u00a0trademarked term, I’m guessing) to SolidWorks and other applications.\u00a0 Predictive Engineering that can do things like calculate\u00a0interferences or handle material properties before the user even requests such data.\u00a0 With all these improvements associated with cloud computing, I am willing to predict that there will eventually be no distinction between SolidWorks and Catia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"