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S5E51 Manish Kumar | Being CEO at SOLIDWORKS

Being an Engineer · 20 Dec 2024 · 58m · Episode 51

AI in practice: 2 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

Manish Kumar, CEO of SOLIDWORKS and VP of R&D at Dassault Systèmes, discusses the evolution of the company from its 1995 launch to its current cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform. He details the development of X Design, a browser-native CAD application built for future devices, and explains how SOLIDWORKS integrates AI to automate tedious tasks like drawing creation. Kumar also shares personal anecdotes about early product failures and the strategic pivot to cloud computing that defined the company's modern success.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

DesignSolidWorks AI

SolidWorks uses AI to automate the creation of manufacturing drawings from 3D models by analyzing similar past models and drawings, reducing the time engineers spend on tedious documentation tasks.

“we are working on automating the drawing creation using artificial intelligence, where you have a model, you give the model to AI. AI will try to look at similar models that you have created in past, and what kind of drawings you have created, and based on that, can I create the drawing for you…”

Manish Kumar · Hear it at 36:12

DesignChatGPT

Manish Kumar used ChatGPT to generate a historical summary of SolidWorks 95's impact, which he then used as a baseline to personally test the software's usability against a new engineer.

“I went to chat GPT to ask the question that, what was the impact of SolidWorkss 95 in the CAD board? And it gave a very rosy kind of explanation, that SolidWorkss 95 it democratized CAD, ensured that CAD was on every genius desktop…”

Manish Kumar · Hear it at 9:18

Most relevant to

companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Dassault Systèmes, Geometric Software Services, Apple
Products
SOLIDWORKS, 3DEXPERIENCE, X Design, X Shape, Rhino, Pro/ENGINEER, ChatGPT

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