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Q&A with Onshape CEO Jon Hirschtick

Issue # 1,003 by Ralph Grabowski Six years ago, two former CEOs of Solidworks launched a new stealth software company. They landed $9 million in initial funding on the strength of their experience with the MCAD market; the funding grew... Read more →

Q&A with ParaMatters Co-founder Michael Bogomolny

Issue #1,002 by Ralph Grabowsk Generative design is very hot these days, but it doesn't help that there are two definitions of it. One generates dozens or hundreds of design variations and candidates, usually in the field of architecture; the... Read more →

Readers Respond to 'Will Computers Revolt?'

Issue #1,001 This issue sponsored by Discover the A-B-Cs of BricsCAD at the inaugural Australasia BricsCAD Conference 19 March 2019 in Brisbane, Australia Book your tickets at http://www.trybooking.com/YIUA Readers Respond Will Computers Revolt? Best thing I've read in years! I've... Read more →

Will Computers Revolt? Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Issue #1,000 This issue sponsored by BricsCAD V19 catapults forward in BIM, mechanical, and traditional CAD. You work across all disciplines with the common DWG environment. Discover the ABCs of BricsCAD at the forthcoming one-day Australasia BricsCAD Conference, 19 March... Read more →

Top News from the London and Berlin Conferences: The Best from Bricsys 2018, Graebert 2018

Issue #999 This issue sponsored by BricsCAD V19 catapults forward in BIM, mechanical, and traditional CAD. You work across all disciplines in the universal DWG environment. Discover the ABCs of BricsCAD at the forthcoming one-day Australasia BricsCAD Conference, 19 March... Read more →

Q&A with CEO Wilfried Graebert at the Berlin 2018 Annual Meeting

Issue #998 This issue sponsored by BricsCAD V19 catapults forward in BIM, mechanical, and traditional CAD. You work across all disciplines with the universal DWG environment. Discover the ABCs of BricsCAD at the upcoming one-day Australasia BricsCAD Conference, 19 March... Read more →

Q&A with CEO Erik de Keyser: On the acquisition of Bricsys by Hexagon

Issue #997 Transcribed by Ralph Grabowski The bombshell announcement at last month’s Bricsys 2018 London conference was that Bricsys had sold itself to Hexagon of Sweden, and is now part of the Hexagon PPM division. (Hexagon Power Plant Marine was... Read more →

Q&A With CEO Jesse Coors-Blankenship: On Frustum's Release of Generate for Windows

Issue #996 by Ralph Grabowski Frustum did something wrong last month. They moved their cloud-based design software, Generate, from the cloud to the desktop. That's not supposed to be happening in our "post-PC" era, as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs... Read more →

Q&A with CEO Dr Biplab Sarkar: On the Release of Vectorworks 2019

Issue #995 by Ralph Grabowski The Nemetschek Group is rather unusual as it owns the largest number of architectural CAD programs in the world: three -- as well as a dozen ancillary programs, such as for doing steel design and... Read more →

ODA Conference 2018, Part 3 A Tale of Three Vendors

Issue #994 by Ralph Grabowski During the Prague conference held by the Open Design Alliance, I met with several CAD vendors. Nanosoft: nanoCAD 10 and 3DScan Nanosoft began in Moscow a decade ago with this proposition: write an AutoCAD workalike... Read more →