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In upFront.eZine this week: our exclusive interview with David Pinchefsky of NexGen Ergonomics

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WorldCAD Access 2013-01-07 23:53:42
Happy new year, and upFront.eZine is back from its annual Christmas break. Issue #759 is ready for your reading pleasure: 1. Exclusive interview: David Pinchefsky of NexGen Ergonomics - Q&A 2. Running CAD on Small Screens, Part 3 - How...

Fewer data, less statistic

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WorldCAD Access 2013-01-04 16:16:16
ZDNet's Ed Bott this morning reveals that Chitika's industry trends probably are flawed. This is the ad-server company that frequently publishes headline-inducing research reports, such as iPad usage falling 7% after Christmas. Mr Bott investigates the firm and concludes, "Put...

Touching AutoCAD on the desktop

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-31 09:30:00
I inherited a two-week-old touch-screen computer, after my dad decided he didn't like the shininess of the screen. I agree that the screen is annoying, acting like a mirror, instead of the normal matte finish of other monitors. No matter....

Your beta invitation to Russia's only AutoCAD clone

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-27 23:42:09
Nanosoft of Russia has been quietly developing an AutoCAD work-alike for several years now, improving its abilities with each new release. It appears the next one is due out next summer, for today they sent out an open beta invitation:...

David Stein's new book: "Why Your Next IT Project Will Fail"

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-26 09:43:00
David Stein sent me a preview copy of his new book, Why Your Next IT Project Will Fail (and what you can do to avoid it). Because it is a mere 41 pages, I read through the whole thing this...

CAD vendors will be tempted into biasing their cloud pricing

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-24 15:40:19
The price you pay for CAD software depends on several factors, including these: The country in which you purchase the software (USA workers get the baseline price, with customers in nearly every other country paying as much as double) Educational...

Why efficient, new languages aren't useful

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-21 18:28:37
The Verge reported on a DMV (department of motor vehicles) employee who invented a new language: Naturally-formed languages are messy, and they've long inspired people to search for the perfect, artificial language. It's a quest that a former California DMV...

It could be that CAD vendors will suffer from avoiding granularity

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-17 09:04:00
Beginning in the 1980s through today, CAD software followed the same trajectory as other desktop software: it began with a modest set of functions, and then over the decades bolted on more. What once fit a 360KB diskette now requires...

In upFront.eZine this week: two more exclusive interviews, with Caustic and Graebert

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-16 14:22:12
upFront.eZine issue is now on its annual Christmas break, and so issue #758 will have to last you until early January. For your reading pleasure, we have more exclusive interviews (and guess what, in January we'll have more in the...

The Wengerd Report: What I Learned At AU 2012

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-12 19:55:39
by Owen Wengerd Attendance at Autodesk University 2012 was up a bit after a few down years. My impression is that Autodesk invested more marketing muscle this year in an effort to attract new attendees. The anecdotal evidence I have...

cadTouch looks like Visio, runs like CAD

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-11 13:43:57
While Orange Juice Studios of England hopes to ship Cado on iPad in a half-year (which is several generations in today's fast moving world of mobile programming), cadTouch of Italy is already busy reving its CAD software for iPad and...

Cado is solving the fat finger conundrum

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-10 20:16:35
I am surprised that mobile CAD leader Autodesk hasn't gotten around to solving the problem of drawing on tablets with fingers. The problem, you know, is that our fingers hide what's underneath the finger -- precisely where we need to...

Objet: We do cheesy cuts, too

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-10 16:11:17
Sometimes, marketing departments with too much money try too hard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRC9HfBJGOc&sns=em (hat tip: RT)

Bentley inspired to go mobile

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-07 17:22:06
by Roopinder Tara, Tenlinks.com There were 84 of us media types that assembled in the historic Grand Hotel Karsnapolksy in central Amsterdam, where amidst the picturesque canals, "coffee" shops, and a surprising proliferation of Argentinean steak houses, we heard all...

Social app company Autodesk can hope to retain 5% of downloaders

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-06 09:14:00
Vibhu Norby is talking about the flaw in the strategy of software companies looking to profit from running ads on mobile apps. In brief, he says the strategy is doomed, based on his experience and that of other once-popular app...

Autodesk yawns

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-04 19:28:03
Press release this morning from Graebert GmbH: GRAEBERT ANNOUNCES ARES COMMANDER EDITION 2013 FOR WINDOWS 8, MAC OS & LINUX with 14 LANGUAGES, IN-PLACE TEXT EDITOR, 64-BIT VERSION, DWG 2013 SUPPORT, AND OPERATING SYSTEM ENHANCEMENTS POSE A PRODUCTIVITY AND PRICING...

ASCON interviews Nikolai Golovanov, head of C3D kernel development

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-04 15:10:37
ASCON provided this interview with Nikolai Golovanov, the head of the company's C3D geometric kernel development team. ASCON is the largest Russian MCAD software company, and is headquartered in St Petersburg. - - - Q: There is not always a...

In upFront.eZine this week: exclusive interviews with (a) Geomagic Spark and (b) Graebert ARES 2013

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-03 18:02:21
In upFront.eZine issue #757 this week we have for your reading pleasure: 1. Exclusive interview: Geomagic Spark Encompasses That Other Cloud - Sparking Bro' Love with SpaceClaim - Demo Time - Q&A 2. Exclusive interview: Graebert Grows CAD, Part 1...

Graebert ships tri-OS ARES 2013 on Linux, OS X, and Windows

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WorldCAD Access 2012-12-01 19:05:28
Graebert's ARES software might be better known to you by names like "DraftSight" and "CorelCAD". This company specializes in providing CAD systems to software companies that don't want to write their own -- kind of like a commercialized version of...

Autodesk ceo confirms: "Everything will be available on the cloud"

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WorldCAD Access 2012-11-30 04:48:31
Fusion 360 introduced this week at Autodesk University is only a transition product, probably. http://apb.directionsmag.com/entry/carl-bass-i-do-believe-that-everything-is-moving-to-the-cloud/294177 Whereas Inventor is desktop-bound, Fusion 360 is the stepping stone, running half on the desktop, half on the cloud. In my opinion, it is the...

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