Issue #980 by Ralph Grabowski with Shawn Adamek Twelve years ago, Umbra got its start in Finland by solving a difficult problem: how to do occlusion culling at high-speed. Occlusion-culling technology determines which elements are excluded from 3D models, because... Read more →
Issue #979 What's In Store for Solidworks Users, Part 2 by Ralph Grabowski Solidworks 2018 launched last October and just three months later Dassault Systemes was already showing what it might add to Solidworks 2019. Solidworks employees demo'ed an impressive... Read more →
Issue #978 During January's annual Solidworks World love-in, Dassault Systemesmade what could be perhaps the most important announcement in a decade to the Solidworks users assembled in Los Angeles: the French company finally recognized that Solidworks is here to stay... Read more →
Issue #977 by Ralph Grabowski with John MacKrell A few blocks away from the worldwide offices of upFront.eZine Publishing, new water pipes were last week put under the road. I wish I'd taken a photo of the stack of D-size... Read more →
Issue #976 by Ralph Grabowski with Sean Flaherty After being at Vectorworks for a long time, Sean Flaherty is now chief strategy officer at Germany's Nemetschek Group. Nemetschek originally was a software company that developed Allplan, a CAD system for... Read more →
Issue #975 by Ralph Grabowski With its ultimate aim being subscription-only access to applets getting their data from a single centralized database, Autodesk follows in the footsteps laid down first by Dassault Systemes. More of more of this is revealed... Read more →
Issue #974 by Ralph Grabowski with Roman Lygin and Ramil Gasanov CADEX is a file translation company, one that I previously interviewed in www.upfrontezine.com/2016/12/cad-exchanger.html. The company now has a Web version of their translation-viewing software. To learn more, I interviewed... Read more →
Issue #973 by Ralph Grabowski It's a rare for today's MCAD programs to not have every single one of the user interface innovations introduced two decades ago by brilliant TriSpectives programmers. Yet IronCAD continues its streak in being unique. It... Read more →
Issue #972 by Ralph Grabowski There are CAD vendors, and then there are the vendors that undergird the CAD vendors. These somewhat invisible software developers are the reason CAD exists today in abundance. Or to put it another way, CAD... Read more →
Issue #971 by Ralph Grabowski with Marc Petit Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine Enterprise at Epic Games, talked to upFront.eZine as his company prepared to launch Unreal Studio. This software is a new pipeline for importing 3ds Max... Read more →
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