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Jeff Ray Promoted… Bertrand Sicot Takes Over as SolidWorks CEO. [Interview]

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You see that face? Get ready to see it on an infrequent basis and perhaps in your head as you lie awake at night. That is the new face of SolidWorks. The new CEO, Bertrand Sicot. Executive power has been shaken up in Dassault Systemes much like a whale launching itself from the deep while mixing a cocktail.

Regardless of that being the best analogy you’ve ever heard, leadership changes are in play, new positions are being created and Dassault Systemes is on the hunt to push their software and their ideas for 3D CAD Tech into every region of the globe.

I talked with Jeff Ray and Bertrand Sicot over the phone earlier today. Here’s what they had to say about the change and what it means for SolidWorks customer and Dassault as a whole. Plus, we catch up with Jeff about the “kill SolidWorks” comment, what’s happening with the Labs group and see where Bertrand wants to take SolidWorks.

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In DESIGN

Material Poppin' Chair Design by Kenneth Smythe… I Want One, or Fifty.

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Gaze upon it. Don’t touch! You’ll mar the smooth birch laminate and formica colorcore. Just look. It’s a thing of butt-holding beauty. Chunky, industrial, modern, vintage, dare we say PLAYFUL? …all mixed together in four legs and bucket to hold your bottom.

The chair designs you are about to experience are created by Kenneth Smythe. Above you see is his latest creation, the SYNERGISTIC SYNTHESIS XVII sub b1 – If your chair doesn’t have a name like that, it’s filth. The San Francisco based designer draws inspiration from science, using observations seen in nature to develop the chair ideas… then auctioned them off for thousands of dollars. Thank you nature. Your work is done. Here’s a look at three of his creations. Which do you want?

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In CONTESTS

Create Your Own Light Design… and Win a 3D Print from i.materialise

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It’s a fresh, slightly still doughy new year and what better way to start it off than with a contest and giveaway. This time i.materialise is bringing the opportunity to try out their fresh 3D printing service with a very slick tool you can use to create your own – very special, very unique – lamp design.

Yes, dim the lights, turn on the ambiance and spool up those 3D printers… we’re designing LIGHT. The contest is simple. Submit your light design to enter. We’ll let the “cool light design” pickin’ harpies take care of the rest. Here are all the details.

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In CULTURE

First post of 2011: How to Attack the New Year with Confidence…

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Like you’ve got a screaming mouthful of peanut butter… or like you’re screaming with a mouthful of peanut butter.

Either way, there’s little anyone can do except stare with gaping eyes when you’re crashing into walls, coughing up half-chewed peanut butter. If you think about it though, there are the benefits that go along with shoveling peanut butter into your mouth. For instance, it could help you…

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In 3D CAD TECH

3D Augmented City. Digital Info Will Surround and Absorb You.

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I think you’d agree. There’s just not enough visual clutter surrounding us as we go about our daily lives. It would be so much better if we were surrounded by an orb of interface efficiency.

Fortunately, there are people thinking the very same thing, but not only thinking it… creating it and putting together 3D videos to show just what it would be like. Keiichi Matsuda is augmenting his reality to show you how yours may be augmented in the future. Put your anaglyph glasses on.

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