Was Cadkey bought out

[cadcam]

I have Hear that Cadkey was bought by another company this last year.
Is this a true statment?

thanks Jay

[cadcam]

Well after going to there site it is looking as the answer is yes.
How do you feel about this?

[HomeCNC]

We have 50 seats of Cadkey where I work. I stopped the maintenance contract when they changed the part file format from .PRT to the .CKD format. It is not compatable with the hundreds of Cadkey users in Asia that we need to stay compatable with.

It did not bother me about the sale. I think we are going to not be using Cadkey in a few months. I have not delt with Cubotech (spelling??) before.

[Dan B]

From what I have read:

Cadkey filed for bankrupcy (possible to escape a lawsuit for backward engineering somebody else's program and/or to escape longstanding debt for FastSurf/FastSolids which they acquired but never paid for)

Then Kubotek bought the company, changed the name, and kept all the same (mis)managers on board. From what I hear, nothing much has changed.

I must reiterate, this is what I heard, I cannot back it with any facts.

We used to be Cadkey customers too, but finally had enough of paying AUC's but getting nothing for it.

Dan

[Malish]

It's a shame, back in it's day Cadkey was a very nice program.

[bkinman]

I really love the cadkey... It was all about the classic interface. Does anybody know of a CAD program that has a similar interface that is up to date?

[Dan B]

MasterCam had an almost identical UI up until the latest release. I think Weber's Synergy (if my memory serves me correctly) still uses this type of UI.

Dan

[dpryor]

We have been using Cadkey forever also but did not make the jump to Kubotek/Key Creator. We are trying to decide where to go from here doing mold design. I would be interesting to hear which software people are switching to.

[Malish]

I actually switched companies, thats why I don't use Cadkey no more. The company I am with now uses Solidworks, and we do mold design and molded plastic part design. Solids is the way to go. I like solidworks, it's pretty easy to learn if you know the basics of solid modelinig.

[cadcam]

I was going to say I would tak a good look at SolidWorks.

[dpryor]

We also have SolidWorks and think it is great. However, we are a sub-contract design service and most of the part data we receive comes from other sources. Many times the data will NOT knit into a solid. Do you find that to be a problem with the mold design software within SolidWorks?

[Malish]

Most of the time we devlop our own products and our suppliers/customers mostly use solidworks as well, so we don't have an issue very often. If I am dealing with someone sending me pro-e or catia file I usally request to get them in the STEP format. Most of the CAD packages can import/export STEP files and it's supposed to be a universal format. It seems better that way then having to convert them when I go to open native files.

I think solidworks is one of the better packages for import/export options that I have dealt with, but as the saying goes...."Garbage in, garbage out!"