{"id":476,"date":"2011-05-06T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/solidworks-solution-partner-spotlight-igexao"},"modified":"2011-05-06T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:00:00","slug":"solidworks-solution-partner-spotlight-igexao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2011\/05\/solidworks-solution-partner-spotlight-igexao.html","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks Solution Partner Spotlight: IGE+XAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#39;re hearing from David Sobot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ige-xao.com\/\" target=\"_self\">IGE+XAO<\/a>, a company specializing in electrical CAD.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to work in this field? <\/strong><br \/>Because it is very diverse and I have wonderful colleagues. Most of the IGE+XAO employees have been in the company for a long time, which means that I have known most of them for more than 14 years. We will celebrate our 25th anniversary very soon and are still working in a nice and dynamic atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p> <strong>What is your proudest career moment? <\/strong><br \/>To be involved in the creation of IGE+XAO Germany and to work with my German team to become one of the most important subsidiaries of the group.<strong>&#0160;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has your partnership with Solidworks made a difference in your business? <\/strong>&#0160; &#0160; &#0160;&#0160;<br \/>It has opened new opportunities to us.&#0160; Of course we have a lot of common customers, but due to the tremendous amount of SolidWorks users as well as the professional VAR network, we can approach new markets. In addition to this, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ige-xao.us\/en\/us\/products\/see_electrical.php\" target=\"_self\">SEE Electrical <\/a>product range targets the same market segment, and it makes sense to propose a solution which enables to the user to match his mechanical and electrical requirements in thePDM process.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Who&#39;s your favorite musician?<\/strong><br \/>Very difficult question. I have an eclectic taste in term of music and movies.&#0160; As far as music is concerned, I would say from Pink Floyd and Archive because they make me travel back to the past when I had very long hair! I also listen to a lot of French singers, jazz bands and classic jazz (I love Gershwin).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2014e88438148970d.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IGE+XAO_group_10-6-2010\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2014e88438148970d\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2014e88438148970d-800wi.jpg\" title=\"IGE+XAO_group_10-6-2010\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#39;re hearing from David Sobot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ige-xao.com\/\" target=\"_self\">IGE+XAO<\/a>, a company specializing in electrical CAD.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to work in this field? <\/strong><br \/>Because it is very diverse and I have wonderful colleagues. Most of the IGE+XAO employees have been in the company for a long time, which means that I have known most of them for more than 14 years. We will celebrate our 25th anniversary very soon and are still working in a nice and dynamic atmosphere.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2011\/05\/solidworks-solution-partner-spotlight-igexao.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":2414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-partners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}