What is the Xchangeworks Utility?

Can someone here tell me what the Exchangeworks or Xchangeworks
Utility is? It is an option that appears, upon installing
Solidworks. The help file yields zero, surprisingly enough.

Thank you,
G. De Angelis

Valhallagrafix LTD
(401) 749-1209

www.vallhalagrafix.com

 

Google yields this:

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/products/xchangeworks/index.html

 

Thank you; when I received nothing from the help files, Google didn't
even dawn on me. should have, though...
G. De Angelis

 

Thank you; when I received nothing from the help files, Google didn't

It wasn't the first thing to come to my mind either. I was writing a up a
rambling reply about how it was used a a marketing tool against Autodesk
and I suddenly remembered (or at least imagined) that it once had it's own
web site. That was when I finally thought of using Google.

IIRC, Adesk was charging extra for STEP importers when this came out. So SW
released Xchangeworks and killed that revenue stream for Adesk. I think it
came with a free part modeling environment too. This was about the SW 99 or
2000 time frame.

 

BTW, did you see that Ade$k put out a Inventor LT which has similar
translators?
Wow, their marketing guys are on the ball!, they're so clever, so
innovative and such assholes.
I still want to see that company sink into the SF Bay!

Oh, let's not forget who some of them are.... http://zxys.com/misc/halloweens_coming.jpg

...

 

Indeed, Adesk cannot be trusted at all. I would never recommend working
with then even if their software was on a par with SW. Remember when they
merged the ACAD and MDT licenses just before Inventor came out? That way,
anyone who wanted to use IV with ACAD had to buy a new license of ACAD!

Now this Inventor LT silliness. Get users hooked (in theory) and later
they'll charge for it. IIRC, the anticipated price is comparable to Alibre,
which should be more complete than IV LT by far. Brilliant.