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Then a few years later, 3D Systems spun Alibre off through a management buy-out.

Commented 3 days ago on Archive: What I tweeted about Bricsys 2018 London at WorldCAD Access

Archive: My tweets from the Berlin 2019 Graebert Annual Meeting

November 7, 2018 Getting ready for the Berlin Graebert Annual Meeting here in the Humbolt Box, a temporary structure in former East Berlin overlooking the reconstruction of the Berliner Palast (Berlin Palace) torn down by communists. The view outside the... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at WorldCAD Access

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Q&A with CEO Erik de Keyser: On the acquisition of Bricsys by Hexagon

Issue #997 Transcribed by Ralph Grabowski The bombshell announcement at last month’s Bricsys 2018 London conference was that Bricsys had sold itself to Hexagon of Sweden, and is now part of the Hexagon PPM division. (Hexagon Power Plant Marine was... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at upFront.eZine News Archives

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Archive: What I tweeted about Bricsys 2018 London

London Calling Theme music for the London conference of Bricsys 2018 is "London Calling" by The Clash. "Who's that?" asks the young-ish 61-year-old CAD journalist sitting next to me. "I bought the [double] album when it first came out," I... Continue reading

Posted Nov 5, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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Archive: What PTC told financial analysts about Q4

Discovery Live delayed Each quarter, executives from shareholder-owned companies have to face financial analysts in public, and talk about the last three months and a little bit of what to expect for the future. Here is what PTC execs told... Continue reading

Posted Nov 3, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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Archive: Google’s smart city a privacy nightmare

You're doing distopia all wrong Engadget reported on a "smart city" experimental neighborhood planned for Quayside, a portion of the waterfront in Toronto, Canada. The headline read, "Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare." See https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/26/sidewalk-labs-ann-cavoukian-smart-city/. More... Continue reading

Posted Nov 2, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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The closest to Generic CADD for Android phones and tablets is called Touch, from software company Graebert. See https://www.graebert.com/cad-software/ares-touch/

Commented Oct 29, 2018 on Running Generic CADD in 2013 at WorldCAD Access

What's Coming in BricsCAD Mechanical V19 & V20

Bricsys is fond of telling us what they plan in future releases. Here at the Bricsys 2018 London conference, we learned what to expect in BricsCAD V19 or V20: Future Plans for Part Design Copy and paste parametric features Additions... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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BricsCAD V19 Best: #2, Blockify Conversion

BricsCAD V19's Best Three New Functions Blockify command detects multiple copies of identical entities, and then replaces them with an equivalent block. For example, select a line segment. BricsCAD searches the drawing for all other lines of the same length,... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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BricsCAD V19 Best: #1, Nearest Distance Editing

BricsCAD V19's Best Three New Functions NearestDistance variable toggles a dynamic dimension that reports the nearest distance between two selected entities. (This function does not work when three or more entities are selected.) To use the nearest distance function, just... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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Bricsys 2018 London: Day 2

#bricsys2018 OK, here we are on day 2 of the Bricsys 2018 London conference and we are just waiting for the BLADE session to begin, BLADE is the BricsCAD LISP advanced development environment for interactively programming with the LISP programming... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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BricsCAD V19 Best: #3, QuickDraw Development

BricsCAD V19's Best Three New Functions bimQuickDraw command draws rectangles and L-shapes with height for conceptually designing buildings and room layouts. When you start the command, you see this initial square. The blue square represents the floor area, the white... Continue reading

Posted Oct 23, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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BricsCAD V19's Best Three New Functions

I've been working with the beta version of BricsCAD V19 and found three commands that I feel (a) are unique to BricsCAD and (b) will prove pretty useful to end-users. Over the next three blog entries, I'll list describe them... Continue reading

Posted Oct 23, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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Bricsys 2018 London: Day 1

London skyline from near my hotel Alright, here we are waiting for the official start of Bricsys 2018 conference here in sunny London. We've already had a developer session, where we learned of some of the nuts and bolts about... Continue reading

Posted Oct 23, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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Q&A With CEO Jesse Coors-Blankenship: On Frustum's Release of Generate for Windows

Issue #996 by Ralph Grabowski Frustum did something wrong last month. They moved their cloud-based design software, Generate, from the cloud to the desktop. That's not supposed to be happening in our "post-PC" era, as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs... Continue reading

Posted Oct 21, 2018 at upFront.eZine News Archives

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Archive: Future of Simulation with Comet

SPDM Acronym alert! SPDM is short for "simulation process and data management" Aras recently acquired Comet, software that automates the many steps of running simulations, such as meshing the 3D model, running a variety of simulation scenarios, and then generating... Continue reading

Posted Oct 19, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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It was fascinating to observe the disconnect of the Solidworks CEO spending most of his keynote speech at Solidworks World 2018 showing off a suite of non-Solidworks programs in front of the 5,000 Solidworks users.

Commented Oct 17, 2018 on Why Dassault figures Solidworks will become a billion-dollar brand at WorldCAD Access

Why IFCs are so bad at BIM translation

A reader writes: Here's something which has always bothered me. How can we say that IFC [industry foundation classes] is a BIM [building information modeling] exchange format? When I create walls in one BIM app, export them to IFC and... Continue reading

Posted Oct 17, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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Q&A with CEO Dr Biplab Sarkar: On the Release of Vectorworks 2019

Issue #995 by Ralph Grabowski The Nemetschek Group is rather unusual as it owns the largest number of architectural CAD programs in the world: three -- as well as a dozen ancillary programs, such as for doing steel design and... Continue reading

Posted Oct 14, 2018 at upFront.eZine News Archives

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Archive: Generate for Windows

Now on the desktop Frustum is one of a new spate of CAD companies that are deploying the latest mathematics and computing technology to leap ahead of established players and find themselves a niche. In the case of Frustum, their... Continue reading

Posted Oct 12, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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Archive: Cambashi Webinar on CAE Opportunties

Buyin' 'em up Cambashi is a CAD market analysis firm out of England, and this week it held a Webinar intriguingly named "Assessing Investment Opportunities in the CAE market." (The company also provides consulting and training.) I listened in to... Continue reading

Posted Oct 12, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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Archive: MagicLeap's first developer conference

First Look MagicLeap is a secretive company that amassed a crazy amount of money over several years -- $2.5 billion in investor's money -- before finally getting around to showing its product a few months ago. This week, it held... Continue reading

Posted Oct 11, 2018 at WorldCAD Access

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ODA Conference 2018, Part 3 A Tale of Three Vendors

Issue #994 by Ralph Grabowski During the Prague conference held by the Open Design Alliance, I met with several CAD vendors. Nanosoft: nanoCAD 10 and 3DScan Nanosoft began in Moscow a decade ago with this proposition: write an AutoCAD workalike... Continue reading

Posted Oct 7, 2018 at upFront.eZine News Archives

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ODA Conference 2018, Part 2: Q&A with Neil Peterson

Issue #993 Following the Open Design Alliance’s conference in Prague last month, Randall Newton of Consilia Vektor and Ralph Grabowski sat down with ODA president Neil Peterson for a Q&A. - - - Q: With your new logo and Web... Continue reading

Posted Sep 30, 2018 at upFront.eZine News Archives

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ODA Conference 2018, Part 1: Going Where No DWG Has Gone Before

Issue #929 by Ralph Grabowski As an organization that for many years concerned itself primarily with documenting the DWG format kept proprietary by Autodesk, the Open Design Alliance found time on its hands as Autodesk pulled back from making significant... Continue reading

Posted Sep 23, 2018 at upFront.eZine News Archives

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