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What BIM Can't Do

Issue #781 The story is mostly in the German press, and so you may not have heard of how just three prestigious building projects are sticking e7.3 billion ($10 billion) in cost overruns to taxpayers. Each one is a horror... Read more →

What Marketing Gives, Engineering Takes

Issue #780 There's a lot of excitement in the tech media over computers running Intel's latest iteration of its iCore processor, code-named Haswell. The biggest bang is an apparently longer battery life, as boasted by companies as diverse as Apple... Read more →

Drawings = Data, and HP's newest large-format printers were designed by users

Issue #779 I s'pose we could ask CAD vendors if they hand over customer data through FISA [USA's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, first implemented in 1978 under president Jimmy Carter], but they would have to deny it. One blogger recommended... Read more →

Vero Software's View of the CAM Industry, and All the Nitty-gritty Details About Russia's Brand-new 3D Kernel

Issue #778 Ralph Grabowski: I am wondering about the kernel Vero's CAM systems use. Do they all use the same one, or is there variety (due to the acquisitions)? Marc Freebrey: Vero has a large product portfolio that serves a... Read more →