{"id":120300,"date":"2014-09-15T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cati-marketing.pantheonsite.io\/compare-epdm-onepart\/"},"modified":"2014-09-15T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:53:00","slug":"compare-epdm-onepart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/?p=120300","title":{"rendered":"Compare EPDM and OnePart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month, <em>the\u00a0<\/em>most common question I have heard goes something like: &#8220;If I have SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM, why would I need Exalead OnePart?&#8221; (or vice versa)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re different tools man! They are meant to do totally different things!<\/p>\n<p>[Did I ever tell you about the time, at my first real job, when I asked my boss if I could have a word processor installed on my computer? I was laughed out of his office because I already had a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 (a spreadsheet application) thus I would have no need for one of those fancy word process applications&#8230;&#8221;Just type all of your stuff\u00a0in one cell, it prints out very nicely&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>There is overlap between the two products, but it comes down to having the right tool for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of the two application&#8217;s most common features, showing\u00a0some of the overlap and distinctions. This list is not even close to listing all of the features for either product &#8211;have you ever tried to make venn diagrams inside of Lotus 1-2-3? -it&#8217;s too hard to make the circles bigger!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FeatureCompare.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9130\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9130 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FeatureCompare-620x467.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past month, the\u00a0most common question I have heard goes something like: &#8220;If I have SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM, why would I need Exalead OnePart?&#8221; (or vice versa) They&#8217;re different tools man! They are meant to do totally different things! [Did I ever tell you about the time, at my first real job, when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":177007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1085,1086,1088,1089,1644],"tags":[1569,1106,1643,1645],"class_list":["post-120300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-engineering","category-solidworks-3d-cad","category-pdm-plm","category-solidworks-pdm","category-exalead-onepart","tag-compare","tag-jeff-sweeney","tag-venn-diagram","tag-features"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Compare EPDM and OnePart - Computer Aided Technology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Compare EPDM and OnePart\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the past month, the\u00a0most common question I have heard goes something like: &#8220;If I have SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM, why would I need Exalead OnePart?&#8221; (or vice versa) They&#8217;re different tools man! 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