It has often been said to be careful of the doors you open. In recent years, I and many others have loudly discussed the huge cost of getting product data from V4 to V5. Dassault cannot imagine the problem they cause for themselves and, more importantly, for their customers, by not playing nicely
vis a vis other product data formats.
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Chrysler's engineering software shift.
In the 2009 Collaboration & Interoperability Market Report (free PDF available
here), there were a few very notable results from our survey, regarding Dassault's attitude with respect to interoperability, such as:
- "Our impression from speaking with many users over the year is that Dassault continues to be the least cooperative of CAD vendors with respect to helping their customers successfully share their product data in STEP or other non-CATIA data formats."
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