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Italian Architects Protest Uber-ization Of Design

Issue #865 by Ralph Grabowski With informal labour services like Uber and AirBnB, outsourcing is no longer international; it's right down our street. This same style of downscaling of incomes is attacking us at the professional level, where companies offer... Read more →

Here's How HP's 3D Onramp-Offramp System Works

Issue #864 by Ralph Grabowski Three-D modeling is a much greater challenge over 2D drafting, because we are not introducing just one more dimension (z), but adding five more views to the traditional plan view: front, back, left, right, and... Read more →

Readers Respond to The Internet of Things

Issue # 683 Finally, an article that explains IoT in a clear, understandable way! “IoT is defined as products made smart with sensors that are interconnected.” Priceless. Then I was further educated in the size of the market -- good... Read more →

The CAD That Manufacturing Needs

Issue #862 Opinion by Dmitry Ushakov I read with great interest John Callen’s guest editorial about CAM [computer-aided manufacturing] and Onshape (upFront.eZine #856). Mr. Callen points out that CAD systems today still focus on defining geometry outside of a context... Read more →

Welcome to the archive pages of upFront.eZine, the e-newsletter that for 20+ years has been reporting on the business of the computer-aided design software industry. We launched 1 May, 1995 and today bring thousands of subscribers our edgy opinion, weekly... Read more →

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Welcome to the archive pages of upFront.eZine, the e-newsletter that for 25+ years has been reporting on the business of the computer-aided design software industry. We launched 1 May, 1995 and today bring thousands of subscribers our edgy opinion, weekly... Read more →

The Internet of Things, and What It Means for PLM

Issue #861 by Ralph Grabowski with Stan Przybylinski After the Internet transformed commerce, the Internet of Things will do it all over again, says CIMdata's vp of research Stan Przybylinski. IoT is defined as products made smart with sensors that... Read more →