New best-friends-forever SpaceClaim and Bricsys are joining forces in a SolidWorks/Cadopia-like arrangement.
In SolidWorks, the DWG editor is was a standalone version of IntelliCAD provided by Cadopia, and rebranded as DWGeditor -- one of the names over which Autodesk is having a temper tantrum.
Announced informally earlier today by Bricsys ceo Eric de Keyser, his company now has a similar arrangement with SpaceClaim. For US$1,995, you get the software bundle. Europeans, as is so often the case, get hosed into paying 30% more -- e1,995.
The point is that you use Bricscad to tweak DWG drawings outside of SpaceClaim.
Was it just a coincidence that this announcement was made during the ITC conference? Brisys is one of the largest and most successful IntelliCAD developers, and so is conspicuous by its absence.
Thanks for updating me, Ricky!
I wonder why SolidWorks was not at last week's IntelliCAD conference?
Posted by: ralphg | Nov 02, 2008 at 02:57
Ricky, you are not mistaken. SolidWorks is also sending back some code to the ITC. The 10 language translations that the ITC now has are thanks to SolidWorks.
Posted by: Deelip Menezes | Nov 01, 2008 at 19:37
Ralph,
Unless I am mistaken, DWGeditor is no longer IntelliCAD from Cadopia. I believe starting with the 2008 release, DWGeditor is being maintained and enhanced by SolidWorks which is still of course their "flavor" of IntelliCAD.
Best Regards,
Ricky Jordan
Posted by: Ricky Jordan | Oct 31, 2008 at 22:37