OVSoftware is the European business partner, selling the product to
Dutch and German utilities and
municipalities. OVSoftware is a systems integrator and software developer
based in Oldenzaal, The Netherlands, with
offices in Germany. More info from <teugelink@ovsoftware.nl>.
Arnie Williams is the now the Executive Editor of Cadence magazine.
Roopinder Tara continues as Editor-in-
Chief. The rest of the Cadence editorial staff now reports to Mr. Williams,
formerly a writer at Autodesk.
The CAD staff of Delmar Publishers and the Autodesk Press staff
have merged into one unit. The move is designed
to help communication and improve marketing. Meanwhile, Autodesk Press
has become the sole book publishing partner
of Autodesk, after Autodesk announced the termination of its relationship
with publisher Addison Wesley Longman.
Imagineer
The Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the comp.cad.imagineer
newsgroup is on again. The text for the
RFD can be found at:
ftp://www.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp/
then select the file comp.cad.imagineer
IMSI
The Beta program for Visual CADD 3.0 is now officially open. Log on
to http://www.imsisoft.com/forums.html
to become a
beta tester and download the latest beta version of this 2D design
drafting program for Microsoft Windows 95/NT.
LightWork
LightWork Design introduced a new family of rendering and
utility plug-ins for QuickDraw 3D.
PMTC
Parametric Technology received US$3.8million order for software and
services from Seiko Epson of Japan, as well as
a $1.2million order from Bang & Olufsen A/S.
SDRC
SDRC's I-DEAS Master Series software won 'DesignNews' magazine computer
productivity tools award for 1997.
R13/R14 DWG Quick Viewer
Drawing QuickVewer
provides integrated quick viewing of AutoCAD R14 and R13 drawing files
within the Windows File
Explorer. This freeware Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95 utility does
not require AutoCAD to be installed or running.
In its SEC filing, Visio reported the following 1997 revenues for its product line:
http://www.conitech.com/windows
Frank Condron's World O' Windows
In addition to other info, this site lists hardware driver updates
for 810 vendors. Amazing!
http://www.news.com/Perspectives/perspectives.html?nd
Crushed by Microsoft
The true, first-person story of how Microsoft crushed a small, British
3D graphics software developer.
Subtitled, "for IT, Industrial, and Scientific Applications," this 4cm-thick
(1-1/2") book lists 32,000
abbreviations. The abbreviations are listed alphabetically but I like
the layout of the book: the top of every right-
hand page lists -- in large, 22pt type -- the range of abbreviations
listed on the two facing pages. Thus, page 369
ranges from MIP (Manual Improvement Process) to mksa (meter, kilometer,
second, ampere).
Author Vlietstra's task of collecting 32,000 acronyms is astounding.
I know, because seven year ago I collected
400 acronyms for an appendix in my "The AutoCAD Technical Reference"
book -- and I thought that was a pretty long list!
From this book, I found out that Univac is short for "universal
automatic computer" (I only I could own one of
those!<g>) and that YODA is short for "young opinionated directionless
artists". When an abbreviation is specific to
a country, the two-letter country code follows. Naturally, those country
codes are listed in the book, too. The only
thing missing is a diskette that would let me load those 32,000 abbreviations
into my word processor's spell checker.
"A number of folks here at Autodesk have recommended your newsletter."
-- IH