PTC: Get Ready for Lightning

摘要

Jim Heppelmann, PTC's CEO-elect, thinks CAD has become "less exciting." He plans to energize the industry with a new offering, a family of products presently known only by the codename Project Lightning.rnOn the first day of this year's PTC User World Event, Heppelmann said most CAD releases are "characterized by ongoing refinements to user interfaces, new modules, and so forth ... There hasn't been a revolutionary departure since Sam Geisberg's innovation of 1985 [founder of PTC, credited with developing the first commercially marketed parametric CAD program]."