The takeaway Social media has forever changed the nature of communications. People know they can be connected to their friends all the time, and they want the same flexibility and freedom in their work relationships. With integrated team messaging in BIMcloud, Graphisoft is providing it for design-build teams. Our opinion Graphisoft started thinking out of […]
Serendipity is not an accident
“Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.” ― Don Tapscott, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, and Social (CAMS) are the tools to create a new product development process, one that fully embraces on-demand capabilities and the re-imagining and re-energizing […]
Mcor to give 3D printing consumables away to schools
Mcor Technologies makes a line of desktop 3D printers that use paper and ink, and inexpensive and practical for quick modeling. But one of Mcor’s primary markets, education, is budget constrained even when it comes to buying reams of paper. So Mcor is running a special for schools in the United States. Buy an Mcor […]
AutoCAD Mac 2015 comes closer to matching Windows
The takeaway AutoCAD for the Mac is a vanity product, only suitable for Mac users whose buying decisions are based on logos. There are much more mature CAD products available. Our opinion For many years, if you wanted to do drafting on the Mac, you had many choices but AutoCAD was not one of them. […]
Production of final parts in 3D printing tops $1 billion in value
The takeaway More than one-third of the 3D printing market is now engaged in printing parts for final products. The details In its research for Wohlers Report 2014, Terry Wohlers and his team found that revenues from the production of parts for final products represents 34.7% of the entire market for additive manufacturing (AM) and […]
Bricsys throws down the gauntlet
The takeaway “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” has been an IT truism for a generation. In 2D design technology, Autodesk is equivalent of IBM, the assumed standard of excellence. At its annual development conference meeting this week in Barcelona, Bricsys is explaining to its community of developers and end users how the CAD industry […]