SOLIDWORKS Tech & Services Blog

SOLIDWORKS Cloud Is Exciting

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News / November 17, 2021

Wow, It’s hard to believe Thanksgiving is just over a week away. 2021 has been…



A Unique Message, A Unique Solution, A Unique Team

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Announcements / July 22, 2021

A Unique Message, a Unique Solution, a Unique Team   Blue Origin wasn’t the only…



Moog Music Gains CAD Productivity in the Cloud

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Customer Success / January 20, 2021

In keeping with its storied history and reputation for innovation, Moog Music (rhymes with “vogue”) recently…



Celebrating the Next Great Thing This Thanksgiving

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Cloud / November 25, 2020

  There’s much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving… Like new ways to live, work,…



Flatter Files With SOLIDWORKS PDM: A Cloud-Based Solution for Data Distribution

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Cloud / May 27, 2020

  We’ve touched on this subject before in various CAD-in-the-Cloud blog posts, but I still…



What Customers Are Saying About Our EpiGrid Solution for SOLIDWORKS Cloud

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Customer Success / May 20, 2020

  Here at Converge, we’ve been focused on enabling remote access for CAD teams for…



Has the Cloud Finally Realized Its Potential in CAD?

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Cloud / April 22, 2020

There are several ways in which life will change forever after this Coronavirus pandemic has…



Implementing SOLIDWORKS PDM Made Simple and Cost Effective

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PDM / April 21, 2020

  We are living in unprecedented times with lots of uncertainty. Companies are hyper-vigilant of…



Remove the Barriers to a Remote CAD Team With SOLIDWORKS Cloud

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Cloud / March 30, 2020

If there’s one lesson we can learn at the beginning of this global pandemic, it’s…



How Converge Can Help Enable Your Remote Workforce: COVID-19

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Cloud / March 20, 2020

We want to take a moment to address the Covid-19 crisis and let you know…



Changes to SQL Licensing for SOLIDWORKS Users

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PDM / November 25, 2019

  We try not to get too deep into the nuts and bolts of SOLIDWORKS…



Data Distribution & PDM | Part 4

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Data Distribution / October 3, 2019

In the last blog post, we discussed Flatter Files. The next step in the data…



Data Distribution & PDM | Part 3

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Data Distribution / September 26, 2019

In the last blog post, we discussed the built-in options for automating some tasks using…



Data Distribution & PDM | Part 2

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Data Distribution / September 19, 2019

In our last installment, we spent a bit of time talking about the data creation…



Data Distribution & PDM | Part 1

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Data Distribution / September 12, 2019

“What we’ve found over the past 5 or so years, is that the problems most…



Software Hosting as a Service

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Software Hosting / August 1, 2019

We’re all familiar with the SaaS model, or Software as a Service, whether we know…



Private vs Public Cloud: Reliability and Performance

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Cloud / July 8, 2019

    Over the past several weeks we’ve looked at different aspects of the question…



Private vs Public Cloud: Management of the Solution

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Cloud / July 1, 2019

      Last week in our series on private vs public Cloud, we discussed…



Private vs Public Cloud: Security and Compliance

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Cloud / June 24, 2019

    This is the third post in our series on private vs public Cloud….



Private vs Public Cloud: Pricing

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Cloud / June 17, 2019

    Last week we gave you an overview of the topic of Private vs…



Private vs Public Cloud (Spoiler: Private is Better)

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Cloud / June 6, 2019

    Here at Converge, we’ve adopted the Cloud as a means to facilitate collaboration…



Fossil Uses EpiGrid’s Cloud Hosted Infrastructure

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Cloud / February 20, 2019

  We love seeing success stories from our partners and EpiGrid has no shortage of…



How CAD In The Cloud Is Changing PDM

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Cloud / February 7, 2019

  The cloud is a nebulous and unknowable thing, right? Not so much these days….



What is EpiGrid?

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Cloud / January 10, 2019

Have you heard people talk about SOLIDWORKS Cloud? Do you still struggle to get a…



Top 5 Tips to Transform Product Design for Smarter Products

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Cloud / September 11, 2018

The Journey Toward New Development Approaches The emergence of smart, connected technologies is enabling unprecedented…



EpiGrid and DesignPoint Announce Exclusive Technology Partnership to Enable CAD in the Cloud

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Announcements / September 1, 2018

  Today EpiGrid and DesignPoint announced a strategic exclusive partnership to provide CAD and PDM…



Converge Announces Premier Partnership With EpiGrid for Putting SOLIDWORKS® CAD & PDM in the Cloud

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Announcements / July 17, 2018

    Today Converge, LLC announces their acceptance as a Premier Partner with EpiGrid, LLC—establishing…



10 Reasons Engineers Should Be Using CAD in the Cloud

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Cloud / July 7, 2018

  The engineering sector is dynamic – the industry may boom, or economies may lull,…



Attention Mechanical Designers: 5 Reasons Why You Should Be Using CAD in the Cloud

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Cloud / July 5, 2018

    You use the cloud every day.  It has become commonplace. Email, phone apps…maybe…



How CAD in the Cloud Helped Rocket Mavericks To Soar Above the Clouds

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Customer Success / July 5, 2018

It takes just one conversation with Thomas Atchison to be infected with his passion for…



SOLIDWORKS CAD Admin Services and PDM Application Management

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CAD Data Management / June 25, 2018

    SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management (PDM) is an incredible tool. PDM has been the…



Converge’s Private CAD in the Cloud Solutions

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Cloud / June 21, 2018

We’ve given you an overview of CAD in the Cloud as it stands today. In…



CAD in the Cloud Increases Performance and Relieves Administration Headaches

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Cloud / June 13, 2018

Hosted CAD or PDM systems (what we call “CAD in the Cloud”) is an emerging…



Converge Welcomes Kathleen Wilson to the Team

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News / June 7, 2018

  We would like to welcome Kathleen Wilson as the newest Converge family member. Kathleen joins Converge…



Your Wingman to CAD in the Cloud

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Cloud / May 15, 2018

In this blog series, we will discuss how SOLIDWORKS users are leveraging the Cloud. The…



CAD in the Cloud Blog Series

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Cloud / May 9, 2018

  We are committed to CAD in the Cloud. We’ve spent a lot of resources…



Converge Sees a Cloudy Future…And So Do Gartner and CloudTech

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Cloud / April 19, 2018

Gartner believes that by 2020, a ‘no-Cloud’ policy will be as rare as a ‘no-internet’…



SILVER LININGS: Eight Reasons To Move to SOLIDWORKS Cloud

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Cloud / March 15, 2018

  In a recent article posted in the online Dassault Systèmes magazine Compass, they outlined…



Converge Announces Launch of Company that Enables Leading Edge Product Development Environment by Leveraging the Cloud

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News / February 5, 2018

Today Converge formally announces they are open for business. Converge provides services and products that…