“””””constraints”””””

Hard pass…..

Nothing worse than “slop a component onto a sheet, then go back and jump through hoops to enter a bunch of engineering data…”

MoI has the ACIS modeling Kernel. Superior fillets…

NX is more of a PLM product. Lets hope Michael doesnt try to implement PLM.

""""""""""But perhaps there are some non-competition clauses in place with which Siemens ensures that 3rd party developers cannot use Parasolid to develop a 200 seat NX competitor any time soon?"""""""""""""""""""""

Sure. That's called "millions of dollars of investment and countless man hours of time developing their product". Hence, NX can create a circle and fillet a box without crashing.