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"Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup"

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 →

New From Epson: The SureColor T3170 Large-format Printer

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 →

Siggraph is Back

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 →

Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

Issue #988 Book written by Ryan Holiday; reviewed by Ralph Grabowski During high school English, we bored teenagers were taught about three kinds of conflict presented by fiction: man vs nature, man vs man, and man vs himself. All three... Read more →

Graebert Makes Kudo Pervasive

Issue #987 by Ralph Grabowski with Cedric Desbordes CAD vendors have taken two approaches to browserCAD. A small number enthusiastically embraces it, while a larger number is limiting their involvement to online collaboration. It is, after all, a lot easier... Read more →

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 →