upFront.eZine News Archives

Autodesk Core 1.0: Successor of ShapeManager, or a Toy for Enthusiasts?

upFront.eZine Issue #807 Guest editorial by Nikolay Snytnikov Recently Ralph Grabowski in his article "Introducing Core, Autodesk's Other Solid Modeling Kernel" drew attention to the re-branded Gen6 geometric kernel, the technology used inside TinkerCAD's Web-based CAD system acquired by Autodesk... Read more →

Graphisoft renders ArchiCAD 18

upFront.eZine Issue #820 For the 18th release of ArchiCAD, Graphisoft is emphasizing a new rendering engine in the 30-year-old CAD system. "Which means that BIM is turning 30 as well," added Graphisoft vp of marketing Akos Pfemeter. Coordinating with the... Read more →

What I Learned at Solid Edge University 2014

upFront.eZine Issue #819 Even at age 18, Solid Edge is largely an unknown. An unknown MCAD package with more than 500,000 users of the 3D version and another 600,000 of the free 2D one. So, how come so invisible? It... Read more →

Q&As from the Nikken Sekkei Visit

upFront.eZine Issue #818 by Ralph Grabowski Graphisoft took us CAD journalists on a morning visit to Tokyo's Nikken Sekkei (established 1900), an international one-stop architecture firm working primarily in Asia with 1,200 architects. The firm began trying BIM ten years... Read more →

What I saw at COFES (and what I didn't)

upFront.eZine Issue #817 by Ralph Grabowski The annual COFES (congress on the future of engineering software) is about conversation between CAD vendors, analysts, and journalists, but that doesn't mean vendors can't whisper about new stuff they have. I'll tell you... Read more →