CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
18 April 2005
CIMdata News
CIMdata in the News: " Keeping Up With CAD"
Independent vendors like Cimmetry Systems Inc. (recently acquired by Agile Software Corp., San Jose, CA) and Spicer Corp. (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) sell viewer software that "allows both big and small companies to take data coming in to them from any of the important CAD systems and view it all in one system with one interface. It's much lower cost and much easier to train than using the native CAD applications," says John MacKrell, senior PLM consultant for CIMdata Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI), a consulting company. Major CAD vendors such as Dassault Systemes (Paris) and PTC have their own CAD viewer products.
This is an excerpt. For the full article visit, Keeping Up With CAD , (Managing Automation, April 22, 2005), By Lauren Gibbons Paul, Contributing Editor.
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