Join Pulse If you would like to be included in Pulse, please submit your news, press releases, or blog URL to pulse@novedge.com Novedge reserves the right to exclude certain items from Pulse. | Novedge Novedge Pulse of Ralph GrabowskiThe Pulse of the Graphics & Design CommunitySep 2, 10 WorldCAD Blog Where are the women in CAD? Doing stuff they'd rather doAt the end of a Q&A with the CAD media, Virgin ceo Richard Brandson complained to us about the low number of women in engineering, and challenged us to do "something" about it. He didn't know what that "something" was, but in a room filled with a majority of [more...] Aug 6, 10 WorldCAD Blog The Apple hardware & OS X software: How dreadful they are (part i)I recall being surprised when I "upgraded" from a 1996 Chrysler mini-van to a 2002 Honda mini-van. The Chrysler was just about bottom of the line; I had to pay extra for the cassette player and cruise control. The Honda cost nearly twice as much and should have benefited [more...] Aug 27, 10 WorldCAD Blog Ray Kurland digs up interesting stuff about DraftSightRay Kurland interviews Aaron Kelly about DraftSight, and we learn these facts:DraftSight division has 24 employees and is expected to generate a profitAnnual maintenance fee is $250 per user, for those wishing direct support and access to the APIsBy making DraftSight [more...] Aug 26, 10 WorldCAD Blog Practicing FEA Without a Licenseby Roopinder Tara, Tenlinks.comCAD companies are eager to put analysis in the hands of designers. It's scaring me to death.Yet Another CAD/FEA DemoA bunch of us editors are sitting through yet another demo of how easy analysis is, being done on an automotive piston. [more...] Aug 20, 10 WorldCAD Blog CAD Insider: Autodesk Takes Local User Group Off Life Supportby Rooponder Tara, Tenlinks.comAutodesk's headquarters are in San Rafael, CA, about 20 miles north of the Golden Gate bridge. San Rafael (pronounced san raFELL, not san RAFFYel) is in beautiful Marin County (pronounced maRIN not MARin). Its easy to fall in love [more...] Aug 5, 10 WorldCAD Blog Experiencing CAD on the MacSeveral CAD vendors are on the verge of releasing the OS X version of their software for the Macintosh line of personal computers, and I've been able to try out some of them on a new acquired MacBook. If you are used to only CAD on Windows, I thought I'd give [more...] Sep 7, 10 WorldCAD Blog Trying out nanoCAD 2, beta 2It turns out that nanoCAD 2 got installed on my computer, after all. It appears that some of the unintelligible (to me) dialog boxes may have had to do with additional options unrelated to the installation process. I found nanoCAD in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Nanosoft\nanoCAD [more...] Sep 6, 10 WorldCAD Blog Installing Bricscad for Linux, step by stepNow that Bricsad for Linux is official, and not just beta, I thought I would try it out again.As I noted in yesterday's post, the software is officially supported for specific dialects of Linux. That's because there is a different installer for each:Ubuntu [more...] Sep 6, 10 WorldCAD Blog Bricsys the first to ship an AutoCAD workalike running on Linux(What is this, Labour Day? CAD vendors are making me labour at blogging their new releases.)Graebert may have been the first to release an OS X version of an AutoCAD workalike, but Bricsys is the first for Linux, with support for Fedora 12+, OpenSuse 11.1+, and Ubuntu [more...] Sep 6, 10 WorldCAD Blog nanoCAD ships beta 2 of its free nanoCAD AutoCAD-workalike (in Russian)When I was in Russia a year ago, one of the companies I visited was Nanocad. CEO Maxim Yegorov showed me a beta of their free AutoCAD-like CAD system, called "nanoCAD 2." (The name was tied into the the "nano" trend of the time.)The idea was to make money from selling [more...] Sep 5, 10 WorldCAD Blog foto of the sunday: start 'em youngAdding a touch of gold to fencing in Graffiti Alley, Gent, Belgium. Mother stood patiently by as her two young ones spray painted, getting aerosol sprayback in their faces. The city encourages graffiti in this alleyway, and the art changes nearly daily. [more...] Sep 3, 10 WorldCAD Blog The Jay Vleeschhouwer Report on AutoCAD for Macintoshby Jay VleeschhouwerAutodesk has reinstated the availability of AutoCAD on the Mac, as expected since at least December 2008. At that time, I wrote in a note:[We] could envision that as part of its product strategy for 2009 and beyond, Autodesk could reinstate [more...] Aug 31, 10 WorldCAD Blog Live from the SolidWorks media daySo here we are at the SolidWorks Media Day, smack dab in the middle of the headquarters building off Baker Avenue on Concord MA. (Across the parking lot sits the building housing SpaceClaim.)We're getting an overview of the company's finances to start off the [more...] Aug 30, 10 WorldCAD Blog Twenty years on, Autodesk rediscovers that Apple thing (Updated)Miguel Helft of The New York Times is reporting this evening what was pretty much an open secret. It was just the timing we weren't sure about.Tuesday Autodesk has all kinds of media events planned for announcing AutoCAD's return to the Macintosh, this [more...] Aug 30, 10 WorldCAD Blog Frist add-ons for ARES, Windows now, Linux and Mac "soon"SYCODE is releasing its translators for Graebert's new ARES CAD program -- the first add-ons for ARES, as far as I know. The xlators handle the following formats:Export, import VTK (Visualization Toolkit)Export, import SKP (SketchUp)Export, import OBJ (Alias Wavefront)Export, [more...] Aug 29, 10 WorldCAD Blog foto of the sunday: sf in bw On one of my trips to San Francisco, I set my camera's mode to black-white. Taking photos in this mode certainly forced me to look at images in a different manner, for the emphasis is on the contrast between light and shadow. (Photo taken February, 2006.) [more...] Aug 22, 10 WorldCAD Blog foto of the sunday: whooping it upMy daughter and her friends jumping for joy at summer freedom. [more...] Aug 19, 10 WorldCAD Blog ASCON plans on shipping version 12 of KOMPAS endish-SeptemberWhenever I write about ASCON's software, my fingers naturally type KOSMOS. Must be the result of growing up during the space race.ASCON today announces that it plans to ship KOSMOS KOMPAS-3D V12 in the second half of September. The Russian software company writes:KOMPAS [more...] Aug 18, 10 WorldCAD Blog Autodesk cutting prices earlyIt's not even Q4 and Autodesk is already cutting the price of its software through mail-in refunds. It's Q4 (Nov-Jan) that's usually the prime discount season, as Autodesk seeks to goose sales one last time before its fiscal year end.Today, the goosing [more...] Aug 18, 10 WorldCAD Blog Avatech likes reverse mergersAvatecvh Solutions has taken over Rand Worldwide to create the world's largest AutoCAD dealer.Avatech originally became a public company by doing a reverse merger of PlanetCAD. Five years ago, WorldCAD Access reported:PlanetCAD was renamed from Spatial, after the [more...] Aug 16, 10 WorldCAD Blog Multi-touch gestures are just a warmup for multi-touch sentencesIt's bad enough that Apple expect people to touch their trackpad with two fingers, because the thinking-differently company couldn't be bothered splurging on two buttons. Three-finger swipe for this, four-fingers for that... How's anyone gonna remember [more...] Aug 15, 10 WorldCAD Blog foto of the sunday: tiring train travelPhotographed in Antwerp train station, Belgium, June 2009. [more...] Aug 12, 10 WorldCAD Blog Navigating the MacBook's non-standard keyboard in ARESFor Linux and Windows users, the QWERTY part of the MacBook is the same; your fingers, however, need to think different around the edges. Some keys have different meanings or are outright missing.Here's what the MacBook keyboard looks like. Take particular notice [more...] Aug 10, 10 WorldCAD Blog For Windows and Linux users: how to install (ARES) Mac softwareWindows has a messy variety of ways to install software. Linux has its rigorous method. And OS X has yet another method, one that initially will seem quite foreign to Windows and Linux users.Here is now to install ARES for Macintosh:1. Download the 30-day demo software [more...] Aug 10, 10 WorldCAD Blog Printing wth ARES for MacintoshIn my previous post, I mentioned that the plot dialog box in ARES for Mac is quite different from the Windows version. At first, I had no idea what was going on, but then figured it out. I'd like to share my findings with you:1. Enter the Print command, and you [more...] Aug 10, 10 WorldCAD Blog Greabert wins! First to ship AutoCAD-compatible CAD for MacBricsys of Belgium, Graebert of Germany, and a third, unnamed CAD vendor (of another country) were in a multi-year race to see who would ship the Mac version of their AutoCAD-compatible software first. Today, Graebert won.ARES for Macintosh is available for download [more...] Aug 10, 10 WorldCAD Blog New this week in the upFront.eZine:In this week's issue of upFront.eZine:1. CivilB Models Roadways with Surfaces2. PTC Purposely Vague on Project Lightning Plus lots more letters from readers about the suitability of iPads and Macs. You can read all about the business of CAD this week at www.upfrontezine.com/2010/upf-657.htmIt's [more...] Aug 8, 10 WorldCAD Blog What I like about the MacBookAfter venting my fury at the MacBook's hardware design failings, I should admit that there are things that I do like about it. Here is the complete list: 1. It is utterly silent. No fan, no sound of the hard drive.That's all.Quiet computers are, [more...] Aug 7, 10 WorldCAD Blog Solutions to Mac problemsReaders are submitting solutions to the problems I found with the MacBook and its OS X software. Thank you for those.I should add that I have found solutions, too, such as remapping the keyboard, finding utility programs, and so on. Here are two substitutes that I [more...] Aug 7, 10 WorldCAD Blog foto of the sunday: hard work in the streetside kitchenThis crepes restaurant is open to passers-by on the street. It has proved popular, wtih line ups forming and the harried staff hurrying. Photographed during the Festival of Lights (fireworks) in Vancouver, Summer 2010. [more...] Aug 2, 10 WorldCAD Blog Can you make your hockey stick bigger than PTC's hockey stick?Here's some more of that special love language financial analysts use during conference calls with executives of publicly-held CAD companies. Steven Koenig of Longbow Research LLC asks: ...maybe just a few other things I would love to get a little more granularity [more...] Aug 2, 10 WorldCAD Blog Getting busses out of the way of carsOne of the many problems with public transportation is that it gets in the way of private vehicles, the ones whose taxes pay for the roads and subsidize the buses, street cars, and trams. They inhibit efficient travel by our cars, because they (a) block the curb lane [more...] Aug 2, 10 WorldCAD Blog New this week in your upFront.eZine: configuring parts on the cloudIn this week's issue of upFront.eZine:1. SpaceClaim 2010 - Bid Modeling for Sales Engineers - Lean Product Development - New in SpaceClaim 20102. Configuring Parts on the Cloud - CAD FX (see figure below)Plus [more...] Aug 1, 10 WorldCAD Blog foto of the sunday: for dog lovers onlyTaken in Washington DC, June 2000. [more...] |
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