Novedge Pulse™ of Roopinder Tara

PTC announced their quarterly results last wee week. No matter how financial news is framed in a press release sent to us, our news service is trained to distill 3 key items to formulate a headline: revenue, change in revenue [more...]

How often does a CEO of a billion dollar company give up a Saturday to guide kids? Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, is doing just that. Before a standing room only crowd at Maker Faire, he delivers a heartfelt plea [more...]

SAN MATEO, CA (Maker Faire), May 18, 2013 – The line to get into Maker Faire is a mile long. Spread out over the San Mateo Fairgrounds, just south of San Francisco, this show expects 120,000 people over the next [more...]

In the wake of the GstarCAD8 launch last month in Beijing, to which 3 of us western journalists were invited, I reflect on the chances of success of a Chinese CAD company in the US and world market. Registration for [more...]

LONDON, UK (Smartgeometry 2013), Apr 20, 2012 - Civil engineering firms work on the grandest scale. pushing back the sea, building dams, bridges, highways. Tristram Carfrae, structural engineer, director and Arup Fellow, keynote at Smart Geometry, is used to overcoming [more...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 5, 2013 -- Killer robots are hardly the first MCAD application you think of but here is Mark Setrakian, designer and creator of SyFy network’s Robot Combat League, at Autodesk’s very popular Design Night1 showing me [more...]

Apr 15, 2013, BOSTON, MA - Roopinder Tara, founder and editor of TenLinks, Inc., was in Boston to run the 117th running of Boston Marathon, and was only a few blocks away from the explosions that rocked the city and [more...]

SpaceClaim has confirmed that Blake Courter, founder of SpaceClaim left the company in January. SpaceClaim did not provide any further details. Coulter, normally very active on Twitter during his time at SpaceClaim, tweeted on Feb 6 that he had a [more...]

picture thanks to @SolidSmack ORLANDO, FL (SolidWorks World), Jan 23, 2013 - Anna Woods received the Michelle Pillars Community Award. The award, along with all user group awards, was presented on the big stage at 2013 SolidWorks annual user meeting [more...]

SolidWorks World 2013 in Orlando, FL is based in the Swan and Dolphin Hotel inside Disney World. Nearby is a man-made lake with a boardwalk around it. Florida's natural lakes are not as pretty. Matt West, SolidWorks social media guru [more...]

Dassault's 3DEXPERIENCE, recently concluded in Orlando, found itself sandwiched between Super Storm Sandy and a winter storm that followed quickly on its heels. But it is an internal storm -- one that CEO Bernard Charles has unleashed -- that is [more...]

Nov 11, 2012, ORLANDO, FL (3DEXPERIENCE FORUM North America) – CEO Bernard Charles gave a hint of how he hopes Dassault will achieve credibility as he targets new industries with the recent Gemcom acquisition (see press release ) CATIA and [more...]

Nov 11, 2012, ORLANDO, FL (3DEXPERIENCE FORUM North America) – Dassault Systemes has identified so many industries it means to conquer that it seems like a plan for world domination. Here are some of the industries mentioned at the conference [more...]

Nov 7, 2012, ORLANDO, FL (3DEXPERIENCE FORUM North America) - This morning, we had heard Bernard Charles, CEO, of Dassault Systemes, reveal that he took a 2-3 month break from his duties as CEO. This may have allowed him to [more...]

Nov 5, 2012, ORLANDO, FL (3DEXPERIENCE FORUM North America) - Dassault chose the opening press reception of its annual US conference and user meeting (formerly Dassault Systemes Customer Conference, or DSSC), to announce Compass, it's new in-house print magazine. Chief [more...]

A is for American The flight home from Bricsys conference in Amsterdam is barely over the North American continent. I’ve secured a lie-flat seat, but I feel the vexation of Bricsys, and other CAD contenders. I cannot sleep. Autodesk’s lock [more...]

As my flight back from the Bricsys Int'l conference is still barely over the Atlantic, I continue to plot a course to the top for CAD contenders. “Autodesk is a $2B company. My data's safe. Every one uses their products [more...]

A ten hour flight from the Bricsys Int'l Conference in Amsterdam. Every bit of reading material has been consumed. Plenty of time to develop crazy plans, like how contenders like BricsCAD could upset the reigning heavyweight champion, AutoCAD. Yes, it [more...]

Following the Bricsys Int'l Conference in Amsterdam was 14 hours on airplanes to get back to San Francisco. The book was less than compelling, the movies were were the onces I had managed to avoid at home, but the wine [more...]

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Bricsys 2012 Int'l Conference), Oct 3, 2012 - Pricing of software has always seemed artificial. It's not like a car, where the sticker price can be justified by the cost of metal, rubber...companies get to sell software at [more...]

Sep 12, 2012, WASHINGTON DC (NAFEMS NA Conference) - All the heavyweights in the CAE world were lined up in the front of the room, ANSYS, MSC, Dassault, Siemens PLM and others in what was to be a panel Q&A [more...]

We get that a lot. But it’s usually from the marketing folk. They have to say make over-the-top claims. It’s some kind of law. But here was technologist, Gian Paulo Bassi, VP of R&D who, despite having joined SolidWorks one [more...]