
The difference being, Autodesk has the resources to turn that vision into a reality. They showed us their vision of the future and matched ours.

When Autodesk reached out to us they made it very clear that they were serious about CAM. No company can or should be expected to base their future on such uncertainty.” We reached out to people as recent as last month in an effort to get any information that might shed some light on the future direction of SolidWorks, the SolidWorks Partner program, or the SolidWorks OEM program. In an open letter to HSMWorks customers, Tim Mortensen, said a couple of interesting things:Įver since news of V6 was first announced and speculation began to grow about the future of SolidWorks within Dassault Systèmes, we went through all available channels to get the best information we could regarding the direction of SolidWorks, V6, the SolidWorks Partner Program, and the SolidWorks OEM Program. Autodesk is and will continue to support Solidworks users and has released HSMWorks 2014 for Solidworks. HSMWorks was a Solidworks Gold Partner before the acquisition was announced, and Dassault Systemes has pulled this certification since then. Obvious advantages are post processing and simulation being faster with cloud computing and being able to access the program and your data anywhere there’s a net connection, but what else can it offer? It will be interesting to see how CAM in the Cloud will work.
