One Surprising Thing to Demand to See in CAD Software Demonstrations

In this video, I talk about my experiences as a CAD customer, and one thing that you should demand to see in a CAD software demonstration: a demonstration of the CAD software, live, by a real person.
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Dave

[@phillipharris8277]

This is a great subject. One thing I noticed when computers became available to the public was that people changed. Customers used to be very demanding and very skeptical when shopping for even the simplest products. When computers came along, they began to buy into promises and learned to take exaggeration and disillusionment in stride. They still have to benefit from their purchases, but the math is a lot fuzzier.

[@JV_CNC]

As a teacher I always give live demonstrations to my students. Then the students experience that making 3D models is hard work and a lot of thinking, rethinking, editing, struggling .....
It is never as spectacular as in the prerecorded videos, even not after 20 years.
I'm happy that people as you recognize that. (We use Creo parametric)
Your demonstrations are great!

[@sfa6742]

I had a very similar experience with some NX demos. All of them were pre-recorded, and the "CAD guy" on the sales team had little to no knowledge of ProE so he was constantly saying things along the lines of "only NX can do this in the CAD space"

[@CADPLMGuy]

I had a call with a Siemens guy about Teamcenter a few weeks ago. He didn't know I was a PLM guy or that I had previously implemented Teamcenter before. It was similar to your experience. "Siemens is the top CAD and PLM vendor in the world." "Teamcenter is the best PLM in the world." "No one else can do what Teamcenter does." The aggressive hard sell was repulsive and completely destroyed any potential trust.