{"id":1524,"date":"2009-10-19T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/The-CAD-Wave\/ba-p\/334133"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:09:17","slug":"the-cad-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/the-cad-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"The CAD Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The buzz in the social media scene the last couple weeks has been <A title=\"Google Wave\" href=\"http:\/\/wave.google.com\/help\/wave\/about.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google Wave<\/A>. This is a new technology coming out from Google that essentially reinvents email. Whether this is the best thing since email itself or just the next in a line of overhyped new technologies is still to be seen.<BR \/><BR \/>You can follow the link above for a long video on Google Wave or watch this far simpler version:<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rDu2A3WzQpo\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>For me, I\u2019m seeing enough good ideas here to at least start talking about it. For those of us working in product design, the potential for collaboration is probably the biggest. Right now Google Wave access is limited (<A title=\"you can request an account here\" href=\"https:\/\/services.google.com\/fb\/forms\/wavesignup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">you can request an account here<\/A>) but the hand full of CAD people that have got access quickly found each other and quickly begin&#8230;well, collaborating.<BR \/><BR \/><IMG src=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/uploads\/ScreenHunter_03_Oct._17_09_.36_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"561\" \/><BR \/><BR \/>The CAD wave above is one example. This is a public wave that has grown and morphed over the last week. The simple question\u2026 how might Google Wave be used in Product Design? I\u2019ve seen a few more private, semi-private and public waves around CAD get started too. I\u2019ll post more about them later as the landscape becomes more clear.<BR \/><BR \/>Another interesting aspect of Google Wave is that it is more of a framework than an application. Others can easily extend it into other domains via <A title=\"Gadgets, Robots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/220300614;jsessionid=GDJ5SKKW2DNM3QE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gadgets, Robots<\/A>, and hosting of the wave. Will we be seeing CAD based extensions? Time will tell.<BR \/><BR \/>BTW, <A title=\"Josh Mings Solid Smack Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/solidsmack.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Josh Mings<\/A> is using Google Wave for an upcoming article on Google Wave (kind of clever). Be sure to check out <A title=\"Develop3D \" href=\"http:\/\/develop3D.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Develop3D <\/A>for more to this story. I suspect we will be seeing quite a few PLM articles and blog posts on this technology.<BR \/><BR \/>P.S. Hey Google, how about some invites for more CAD and design folks? 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