[kthejoker2]

The problem in CAD space isn't the tooling or design capabilities - it's the data model.

It is a freaking nightmare trying to unwind interlinked assets, class libraries, custom components, manually entered specs and annotations, and convert it into something resembling a database (of any variety, we went with a graph DB because it offered more flexibility ...)

AVEVA has a lot of the pieces for this, but they've never put it together into a compelling product.

Ripe for disruption, especially with ML-assisted design.