Who owns DWG?
With rumours that Autodesk has been making plans to patent the use of the term DWG, Martyn Day looks at the reasons behind this move and the potential impact on…
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Martyn Day
Martyn Day is AEC Magazine’s co-founder and consulting editor and has been writing about design and the business of CAD for close to 30 years. Everyone knows Martyn. He’s always the one asking the CAD software company CEOs the difficult questions. And the one carrying 17 different tech devices in his backpack.
AutoVue 19.2
With so many free file viewers available, you would have thought that the CAD file View and Markup market has become a tough place to do business in. Martyn Day…
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Plant extracts
This month Autodesk launched its first in-house developed P&ID (pipe and instrumentation diagram) application for AutoCAD. Martyn Day looks at the company
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NBS launches cloud-based collaborative specification platform
NBS expands its range of industry tools, launching a specification tool called Chorus, which aims to get teams working together
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Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe has updated its PDF creation range of products and free viewers. It seems Adobe is not just interested in documents anymore but also real-time business meetings, says Martyn Day.
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MicroStation V8 XM
While MicroStation was almost totally re-architected in the V8 release, with Bentley adding considerable new functionality and a powerful new file format, the graphics engine had yet to be replaced…
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AutoCAD 2007 and LT 2007
The latest version of AutoCAD, the classic 2D CAD tool from Autodesk, finally brings 3D to the masses. The question is, do the masses really want that kind of functionality?…
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Populating Google Earth
Google Earth gives its users access to hi-res satellite images of the entire planet. Add to this the ability to integrate 3D CAD building designs and you’ve got a pretty…
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Acrobat 3D
Adobe has been showing increasing interest in being a key player in the design distribution and technical publications market. The company has just got very serious about 3D CAD.
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