Even perennial contender Solid Edge had risen to an order of magnitude larger. But not enough to change the big picture. the tactics seemed to vary with the weather.Īs late as December of last year, SpaceClaim claimed to have 40,000 seats. Maybe users would use it to read, to convert from one CAD system to another, be a super viewer of CAD data. Then they were a front end to CAE software. That's one more than the number CAD users want. SpaceClaim's "adjacent seat" tactic really meant you had to to have two CAD systems. Then it proved to be difficult to unseat SolidWorks and Pro/E users. Its subscription pricing came was ahead of its time, and was eventually abandoned for a more conventional perpetual license model. Some would say it faltered out of the gate. On the product side, CAD insiders gave it a thumbs up.ĭespite all its promise, however, it failed to take the world by storm.
SpaceClaim, the product, looked good, it was easy to use and with direct modeling the trending topic in MCAD, it seemed to be in the right place at the right time. A promising startup founded in 2005 by none other than Mike Payne, whose previous companies, PTC and SolidWorks forever changed mechanical design. The CAD world expected a lot from SpaceClaim.
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