DISQUS

It's a little late for a reply to this post but, Buell does not primarily use Solidworks. They have a seat or two but they mostly use a package, whose name I can't remember, that is popular with some of the European super car manufacturers.

That said, I've worked with Buell and it would be a fun place to work. It has its ups and downs like anyplace but it is a very small company where an engineer could have a big impact and do some fun stuff (riding a motorcycle as part of you job is not a bad thing).

Don't know about the integration of direct modeling anytime soon but the inside word from my VAR is that 2009 is going to be a housekeeping update. SW has become a processor/memory hog over the years because they have been concentrating on functional and interface enhancements. 2009 won't have any huge noticeable changes to the end user but it should be a lot leaner and meaner.