Design Engineering – March-April 2019

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unfortunately confused matters by

describing a different kind of 3dExperi-

ence.Works. It consists of two programs:

• Solidworks


• Demliaworks ERP (enterprise resource
  planning)


• ... [The ellipses were in the slide shown
  the audience]

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Demliaworks is a new name for ERP

software that Dassault recently acquired

from IQMS. About 60 percent of IQMS’

1,000 customers already were using Solid-

works. It’s meant for mid-market man-

ufacturers to make lots of different

products, manage their inventory and

handle regulatory requirements; it runs

on the factory floor and in the accounting

department.

“We want to make ERP and design

easy to use, deploy and exploit in your

companies; [Demliaworks] is going to do

for the world of ERP what we did with

Solidworks,” exclaimed Mr. Charles.

About xShape and xDesign

When you see names of Dassault software

that begin with ‘x’, you know they are for

Solidworks users. I think the ‘x’ is short

for “crossover.” In short, you open the

Solidworks model in one of these pro-

grams, do some modeling around it and

then bring the result back to Solidworks.

xShape is a new deformable sub-division

surface modeler that uses Dassault’s CGM

kernel and runs in a Web browser. It is

due to ship this summer.

xDesign is a solid modeler that also

uses Dassault’s CGM modeler in a Web

browser. It has been announced for sev-

eral years in a row and now its Web page

finally works, but the software itself

remains in beta. If you have a MySolid-

Running on the CGM kernel, Dassault’s browser-based xShape design app for Solidworks

performs deformable sub-division surface modeling.

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