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From 1996: Welcome to the Future

upFront.eZine Issue #824 by Ralph Grabowski Before the Internet, there were the likes of CompuServe and AOL. Their walled email gardens ensured that worldwide communications continued to be accomplished through fax and telephone. In those pre-Internet days, I kept a... Read more →

HP's New Large-format PageWide InkJet Printer Not Due Until Late ...2015

upFront.eZine Issue #823 by Ralph Grabowski The biggest surprise around HP's announcement last week of its sort-of-new page-wide technology for large-format inkjet printers was not the page-wide printing; it was that the new printers would not ship for another 12-18... Read more →

Graebert's CAD Software First to Run on Four OSes

upFront.eZine Issue #822 Graebert Gmbh of Berlin last week announced that they had successfully ported their ARES CAD software to the Android operating system. Alpha testers report good performance. Now, I haven't run the software (code named Radon), and so... Read more →

Switching from History to ST Modeling

upFront.eZine Issue #821 I was interested in this Solid Edge University session on switching to a new form of modeling, because I had heard that it can be hard for designers familiar with history-based design to switch. In this case,... Read more →