Renee Hopkins, Jill Hart, Francois Gossieaux and I had the pleasure of attending Dassault Systèmes’ 3DXForum in the US, and two weeks later it was Europe’s turn.  The forum was exciting to follow even just virtually.  Here are a few of the highlights in photos.

First, the 3DSCATIA booth was running a live demo on yacht design with Natural Sketch at its booth in the Expo area.
 As well as a demo of Live Rendering:

Nearby, Immersion ran a demo on using a live surface for brainstorming:

The presentation sessions were packed with around 1000 attendees, according to Deelip Menezes, who posted his photo:

One of the presenters was James Shyr,  Senior Vice President, HAITEC Design Center, who is responsible for the total vehicle design under the “LUXGEN” brand in Yulon Group.  As Shyr said about design: “It all starts with a line.”  And, as Menes showed, it can end with a rendering like this:

In all, attendees enjoyed the presentations and expo alike, as these photos and comments attest:

To see an archive of Tweets from the conference, click here:

Tweets from Day 1 3dxForum Europe