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Our Limits of Understanding, Part II: How the Mighty Fall (book review)
Issue #1,057 | June 1, 2020 Book written by Jim Collins Reviewed by Ralph Grabowski This article is the second in a series in upFront.eZine examining complexity and what we can understand about it. Here we learn about failure and... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at upFront.eZine News Archives
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Dassault Systemes vs Solidworks: Part II
Issue #1,056 | May 25, 2020 Another viewpoint by Ralph Grabowski When it comes to high-end MCAD, Dassault Systemes is the go-to company. Its software designs most of the automobiles we drive and aircraft in which we (used to) fly.... Continue reading
Posted May 24, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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Solidworks at 3DExperience World 2020
Issue #1,055 | May 18, 2020 Guest Editorial by Nikolay Snytnikov For several days in mid-February the cowboys in downtown Nashville Tennessee had to make room for 6,000 Solidworks users, developers, and resellers as the city became the temporary capital... Continue reading
Posted May 17, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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Google Signals WFH is Acceptable From Now On (Updated)
Working from home For corporations, working from home was a gamble. Could they trust employees to actually work when hanging around at home, instead of being supervised at the office. Some firms even deployed sophisticated electronics over the last decade... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2020 at WorldCAD Access
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How to Hack C++ with Templates and Friends
by Andrey Karpovskii Templates are a very powerful feature in C++, because they allow you to write generic programs that accept a data type as an extra parameter. This feature of them means that we don’t need to repeat similar... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2020 at WorldCAD Access
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Atlas-Onshape as the Future of PTC
Issue #1,054 | The Business Side of CAD | May 11, 2020 by Ralph Grabowski In the days when Parametric Technology Corporation (now PTC) introduced parametric design to the world in 1988, it was normal to run MCAD software on... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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The flyingshapes approach to VR CAD
Posted May 8, 2020 at WorldCAD Access
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I Come to Praise USB-C
Posted May 6, 2020 at WorldCAD Access
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Open Design Alliance Shows Off Its Revit Interface
Posted May 4, 2020 at WorldCAD Access
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I work to a 500-pixel width, so all images are not more than 500 pixels wide and I make sure URLs are narrow enough.
Why it would change from issue to issue I don't know, until an element (figure or URL) is rendered differently by your Web browser than then one I use.
Thank you for the update!
Commented May 4, 2020 on How I work from home at WorldCAD Access
How I work from home
Spare not the efficiency A reader asked if I could write about having to work from home. I was blase in my reply, as I've been working from home for 29 years now. Transportable Licenses He was relieved, he said, that he could get a home-use license for his CAD software, which normally is lock...
Potential Impacts of Coronavirus on PLM
Issue #1,053 | May 4, 2020 (PS: Celebrating upFront.eZine's 25th Anniversary! ) Q&A led by Stan Przybylinski The Q1 financial results we are seeing from CAD vendors show flat or slight increases in sales, the result of the pandemic's effect... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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What's New in nTopology This Month
Posted May 1, 2020 at WorldCAD Access
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How Proxies Work in DWG Files
Issue #1,052 | April 27, 2020 by Dietmar Rudolph Our interview with Neil Peterson of the Open Design Alliance in upFront.eZine #148 brought up the issue of how proxies work across DWG editors from different software developers. Dietmar Rudolph wrote... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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The One Thing That Could Cause the Cloud to Crush CAD Vendors
Issue #1,051 | April 20, 2020 Opinion by Ralph Grabowski Software corporations, who are in love with cloud-based software, love its promise of recurring revenue reaching into the infinite future. They may have failed to take into account a cost... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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Cesium + Smart Construction
Issue #1,050 | April 13, 2020 by Ralph Grabowski Though an interview last month with Cesium, I learned that there is an open competitor to Google Earth that works with CAD. Cesium Geoimaging Even though Cesium -- the company --... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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From Things to Life: 3 Reasons Dassault Is Changing Focus
Issue #1,049 | April 6, 2020 Updates on Coronavirus Support A number of CAD vendors added and clarified their support for customers working from home. See the Letters to the Editor section, below. by David Levin with Francis Bernard The... Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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W. F. H. (Work From Home): Here's who's helping you
Issue #1,048 | March 30, 2020 by Ralph Grabowski With an estimated three billion people asked/ordered to stay at home, many of us in the CAD industry are fortunate to be able to continue working remotely. Someone like myself has... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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How I work from home
Spare not the efficiency A reader asked if I could write about having to work from home. I was blase in my reply, as I've been working from home for 29 years now. Transportable Licenses He was relieved, he said,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 24, 2020 at WorldCAD Access
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What determines the end-game
Is there one? News Item Gov Cuomo: “We have to plan the pivot back to economic functionality” Says we may not have to isolate everyone. Could allow the healthy, less vulnerable to work. #COVID19 survival rate is 98%. NY Forward... Continue reading
Posted Mar 24, 2020 at WorldCAD Access
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Q&A with ODA's Neil Peterson
Issue #1,047 | March 23, 2020 As the Open Design Alliance gets busier and busier, I thought I'd get an update from CEO Neil Peterson. We talk about LOT Network, proxy objects, the latest APIs, and open cloud. LOT Network... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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Readers Respond: Letters to the Editor
Issue #1,046 | March 16, 2020 Re: The Limits of BIM Thanks for your informative gatherings of insight and innovations in our AEC universe. The Snyder discussion is thoughtful, trenchant. However, I'm (easily) puzzled by this model-vs-drwg "conflict." Ignorance is... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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The Limits of BIM: Jettisoning the Idea of Models Replacing Drawings
Posted Mar 8, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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The Test That Failed
Issue #1,044 | March 2, 2020 by Herbert S Grabowski The first job my father held was apprenticing in an aircraft factory. Later he became a drafter, for which I also had a knack, and that's why now you read... Continue reading
Posted Mar 1, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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Autodesk at 2020
Issue #1,043 | February 24, 2020 by Ralph Grabowski Life is good for Autodesk. This year the 38-year-old software firm will finally pulled out of its US$2-2.5-billion-a-year doldrums and is guiding analysts to expect $3.25 billion this year, up a... Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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Documentation in ArchLINE.XP 2020
Issue #1,042 | February 17, 2020 by Ralph Grabowski The 2020 release of ArchLINE.XP (the XP has nothing to do with the old version of Windows) enhances the way it documents BIM models -- "documents" being the industry-wide term for... Continue reading
Posted Feb 16, 2020 at upFront.eZine News Archives
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