Over the weekend, Deelip Menezes reported on COFES 2009 on his blog. A couple of items that are of interest:
- Bill McClure let us know that they were getting ready to ship the next version of Synchronous Technology [used by Solid Edge and NX] next month.
- Incidentally, Inventor Fusion also comes out next month [in Autodesk Labs].
There is a Twitter feed generated by participants at the event, but I found it incomprehensible in comparison to Mr Menezes' blog entries.
Also:
- We are going to see more of parametrics in CoCreate and more of direct editing in Pro/ENGINEER.
- AIRMax [AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and 3ds Max] is a unified system wherein a user is able to use Autodesk software throughout the design chain. [I think the first step is the new .adsk file format.]
- Jay Vleeschhouver noted that software maintenance revenues across the board are drying up at an alarming rate and there were high chances that product development spending could be severely curtailed. Customers were showing clear signs of deferring new purchases.
Mr Menezes has reports for all three days at his blog, as well as an interview with Evan Yares over the proposed class action law suit against the ODA.
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