The upFront. Read more…

Dominik Hoffmann created The SolidWorks for Mac OS X Petition and it now has 4,403 digital signatures. Read more…

avishere of Design Engineering magazine posted the story on slash.dot of Autodesk and SolidWorks who... Read more…

OK, so now we're back in the main conference room and getting an overview of Alias 2010 (see figure below; that's my netbook in the center of the picture, with the Inventor group's 19-foot screen in... Read more…

Autodesk invited 14 members of the CAD media to its new offices outside Portland OR. I drove down, since it takes 5 hours to drive or 5 hours to fly -- and this way I could bring along my wife... Read more…

With Autodesk each year making it more difficult to write add-on software for AutoCAD LT, one developer tells me his solution: ...[we] are in the process of porting our apps to Bricscad Pro. Read more…

Following Autodesk's early morning press release, SolidWorks was quick to re-issue their's from February. Read more…

Students and faculty have been able to get free 13-month licences of selected Autodesk software titles for several years, and now the company expands the program to the unemployed in the fields of... Read more…

The PTC User event Web site has a new item, Justifying Your Attendance, on how to convince your boss to spring for the costs to attend: Use our "Letter to My Boss" as a starting point for a... Read more…

Dezignstuff Mat Lombard rants away at how poorly some CAD vendors treat their primary reason for existence -- customers:... Read more…

Oce reports Q1 revenues were down 6% (from a year ago) to US$868 million (approx. Read more…

Nearly two decades ago, Autodesk abandoned AutoCAD on the Mac. Read more…

Autodesk's share price jumped $3 since Monday, after an analyst figured that the company's sales were perhaps stronger than first thought. The 52-week low price was $11. Read more…

PTC this morning sent out a survey wondering about replacing its in-person events with on-line or virtual events. The reason? Read more…

Carl Bass is no longer acting cfo of Autodesk; the new hire is Mark J. Hawkins, the former cfo of Logitech. Read more…

PTC's new blog is named "Social Product Development." I don't quite get it, but then it has just one posting, so far. (It's being written by two veeps of marketing at PTC. Read more…

A couple of days ago I described my youngest daughter's use of SketchUp for her first-year university art class. Read more…

Unlike some other (canceled) conferences this year, the Open Design Alliance's World Conference is still taking place in Leiden, The Netherlands, in a month's time, April 27-29. Read more…

Nestled in the rolling hills just north of San Francisco, Autodesk is no Silicon Valley mover and shaker. Read more…

Already the wealthiest CAD company in the universe, Autodesk looks to increase its revenues even more by charging 3x higher upgrade fees a year from now. Read more…

24 tech execs, including Carl Bass of Autodesk, signed a letter asking for the American president's support on patent legislation now in the American congress, which would: Rreduce damages for patent... Read more…

CAD is not new for art. Read more…

One of AutoCAD 2010 undocumented commands is named after the movie "Antz" (In unrelated news, Autodesk's Maya software was the secondary computer graphics app used for the movie Antz. Read more…

Monday was the annual job fair at BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology). Read more…

With all the anguish over CADalyst's near-demise, it's hard to keep in mind that numerous CAD magazines still exist in print form. Read more…

I've just completed writing the 26,000 words, 200+ illustrations, 130 pages, and 5 chapters that make up the latest edition of my What's Inside? AutoCAD ebook series for AutoCAD 2010. Read more…

Bricsys is planning it first ever Application Developers Conference for May 26-27 at their head office in Ghent, Belgium. Read more…

VisMasters canceled their annual DMVC for 2009 for the same reason: reduced and canceled travel budgets of attendees. Read more…

Some people like to take apart watches and iPods to see how they work, some like to take apart software. Read more…

nVidia is delaying its so-far once-only annual love-in, nVision, according to Jon Stokes of ARS Technica. It'll be later and smaller. Read more…

ARS Technica is reporting on Apple's development of 2D and 3D graphics for the iPhone: The WebKit team added CSS Transforms to nightly builds of WebKit back in October 2007, transforms that included... Read more…

Yesterday afternoon FedEx delivered from Autodesk Press an author copy of my The Illustrated AutoCAD 2010 Quick Reference -- the very first AutoCAD 2010 book on the market, I'm pretty sure. Read more…

Rumors are abounding of Apple introducing hardware/OS that'll sense the motions of up to four fingers on a single touchscreen. Four times the fingers, four times the finger grease. Read more…

Ceo and board chairman William Weyand, and president and coo Glenn Weinkoop resigned today from MSC after four years there. Read more…

New 3D computer graphics company Caustic Graphics is about to CausticRT for mightily accelerating raytracing using low-cost CPUs and GPUs -- and its proprietary CausticOne graphics accelerator card,... Read more…

In the case of Autodesk vs. SolidWorks [and why does it always seem to be that it's Autodesk doing the vs., rarely the other way around? Read more…

RenderPlus is a company staffed by some of the people who used to make Aritek (purchased by Softdesk 12 years ago), and they have a list of add-ons for SketchUp that you can download for free from... Read more…

Share prices of publicly-owned CAD companies have fallen lower than their prices from 5 years ago. Shares are straining to drop below even the dismal records set in 2003. Read more…

We take rendered 3D graphics for granted today, but 44 years ago CAD consisted of lines and other simple entities. Read more…

A reader worries:Do you have more information in the "copyright reasons"? Nobody wants problems with the big red A company. Read more…

Torsten Moses of TM-CAD Engineering announces the death of LT-Extender:I ceased the production and distribution of the LT-Extender software with immediate effect due to copyright reasons. Read more…

No trips to North Carolina this year as Bentley cancels its annual user group conference, called BE. Instead, it'll be online.... Read more…

James Heppelmann -- now president and chief operating officer.C. Richard Harrison -- now chairman of the board, remains chief executive officer. Read more…

Adobe figures its Q1 will be in the range of $783-$786 million, down from its previously lowered estimates for the quarter.The new range is down about 12% from the $890. Read more…

Last year, Autodesk and other CAD vendors were thrilled at the rush of sales in Eastern European countries. Read more…

3ds Max Product Manager Ken Pimentel wrote a good blog post covering 3ds Max Design and AutoCAD 2010 DWG interoperability. Read more…

Avatech Technologies is one of largest Autodesk software dealers, and its decline in sales has a pattern similar to that of Autodesk: Building sector software sales down 28%. Read more…

It's a good thing Autodesk didn't lay off any of its lawyers, because it'll need to reassign a few of them to defend itself against Gary Odom, who claims to have a patent on how toolbars are handled... Read more…

As of this morning, Autodesk's cash = PTC's market capitalization... ADSK cash and cash equivalents -- $917.6 million PMTC market capitalization -- $915. Read more…

Owen Wengerd is writing a series of important articles on the need to restore balance to software licenses: Software Licensing: A Case For Reform Software Licensing: Who's On First? Read more…