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What's New in TurboCAD 2018

Issue #986 by Ralph Grabowski with Robert Berry It's been more than a year since I checked in with IMSI/Design. The company went through a change of ownership in the last couple of years, and so more programming and support... Read more →

Et Tu, Autodesk?

Issue #985 by Ralph Grabowski with Martyn Day The ceo of Stratasys resigned last month. The press release that reported the event was written in a neutral fashion. It gave no reason for the change at the top, but it... Read more →

All About ArchiCAD 22

Issue #984 by Ralph Grabowski with Eniko Pauko Every year, Graphisoft focuses on a specific area of ArchiCAD. For release 22, the company's programmers concentrated on making unlimited curtain wall designs, extending parametric modeling to elements like beams and columns,... Read more →

Siemens PLM Connection Americas 2018 (in Phoenix, at 108F)

Issue #983 by Ralph Grabowski So there we were in Phoenix, where the three-block walk along the deserted streets between the hotel and the conference center was about two blocks too long in the 42C-heat. We're in the opening keynote... Read more →

How LEDAS Does 3D On the Web

Issue #982 by Ralph Grabowski with Alexey Ershov LEDAS consists of a group of mathematicians and programmers from Russia who for nearly twenty years now have been creating some of the remarkable software used by CAD vendors. Much of their... Read more →

Alibre Lives

Issue #981 by Ralph Grabowski with Max Freeman Alibre Design was one of several new programs showcased by Microsoft to show off the power of the Internet. Does any of the following sound familiar? Alibre Design was a 3D parametric... Read more →

Umbra for 3D CAD

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 →

What's In Store for Solidworks Users, Part 2

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 →

What's In Store for Solidworks Users, Part 1

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 →

The Steep Challenges Facing MBE Adoption

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 →