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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Issue #993 Following the Open Design Alliance’s conference in Prague last month, Randall Newton of Consilia Vektor and Ralph Grabowski sat down with ODA president Neil Peterson for a Q&A. - - - Q: With your new logo and Web... Read more →
Issue #929 by Ralph Grabowski As an organization that for many years concerned itself primarily with documenting the DWG format kept proprietary by Autodesk, the Open Design Alliance found time on its hands as Autodesk pulled back from making significant... Read more →
Issue #991 Book written by John Carreyrou; reviewed by Ralph Grabowski When I was a pre-teen kid, I was bored enough in the northern Canadian community in which I grew up to invent stuff. On paper I designed things like... Read more →
Issue #990 reviewed by Ralph Grabowski When we think of large-format printers for CAD drawings, we tend to think of brand names like HP, Oce, and maybe Canon (which now owns Oce). Epson is also in the market, but is... Read more →
Issue #989 by Ralph Grabowski The Siggraph computer graphics conference returned to Vancouver (Canada) this year, meaning it cost me only a half-tank of gas to attend it. Also returning are attendees, with roughly 18,000 making the trek to the... Read more →
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