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December 2000

Are CAD Users Being Shortchanged by Magazines' Commercial Interests?  - Ralph Grabowski, upFront.eZine, Dec 2000

Building a Better Barbie Challenges Mattel's Engineers  - Joseph Ogando, Design News Online

Computer Graphics World's 2000 Innovation Awards - December 2000

Consumer Electrical Equipment Design - case history, CADinfo.NET, December 2000

Designer Cycles - bike design articles by Karen Moltenbrey and David Cohn, Computer Graphics World, December 2000

Digital Dogs - Disney's Secret Lab and 102 Dalmatians by Barbara Robertson, Computer Graphics World, December 2000

Direct 3D! - Joe Greco, MCAD Vision, December 2000

Distributed I/O Helps Realize Designs - Rick DeMeis, Design News, December 18, 2000

Early Finite Element Analysis Is Key to Successful Design - CAD User, Volume 13, No. 10

EFD: Democratization of the Desktop - Ivo Weinhold, NIKA GmbH, Desktop Engineer Online, December 2000

How Companies Create a Virtual One-Room Team, Part 1 - Louise Elliot, Desktop Engineering Online, December 2000

Lube System Benefits From Redesigned Reservoir - Machine Design, December 2000

MCAD Up Close: Surfaces - Joe Greco, Desktop Engineering Online, December 2000

Model Behavior: Getting Into Virtual Prototypes - Janet Gould, Desktop Engineering Online, December 2000

Moldflow Helps McKechnie Plastic Components Remain Competitive - Laura Carrabine, CADinfo.NET, December 2000

Multiaxis Contouring Allows Complex Motion-Control Performance - Machine Design, December 2000

Seeing is Believing: A CAD User's Guide to 3D Web Publishers - Jeffrey Rowe, MCAD Vision, December 2000

Some Thoughts on V8 - preview of features and capabilities of the next big MicroStation release by Marc Thomas, bentleyuser.org, Dec 15, 2000

What Every Shop Should Know About Choosing a CAD/CAM System - courtesy of CNC Software, Inc., MCAD Vision, December 2000 

November 2000

Are Graphics Cards Changing Too Fast? - Loren Werner, Desktop Engineering, November 2000

Collaborative Product Design Meets the B2B Exchange - Amy A. Rowell, MCAD Vision, November 2000

Digital Projection in Concert with Cadtek - CAD User, November 2000

Enclosure Helps Doctors See Surgeries Live - Bruce Wiebusch, Design News, November 2000

Farewell to Drawings? - Dr. Joel Orr, MicroStation Manager, November 2000

GTX Helps Rescue RLNI from Drowning in a Sea of Paper  - CAD User, November 2000

Highlights from the 2000 Bentley International User Conference - MicroStation Manager, November 2000

Hiring the Talent - staffing challenges for CAD managers. Dale Batko, MCADCafe, November 2000

Interview with Foster and Partners' Iain Godwin - Martyn Day, MicroStation Manager, November 2000

Machine Tool Design at Leatherman - CADinfo.NET, November 2000

Metrologic Speeds Time-to-Market - CADinfo.NET, November 2000

Modern Technology Helps to Search the Past  - Lili Eylon, CADinfo.NET, November 2000

A New Kind of Crash Test - Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., MCAD Vision, November 2000

Notebook Computers - Susan Maclean, MicroStation Manager, November 2000

Reverse Engineering Hardware: More Systems, More Choices - Peter J. Waterman, Desktop Engineering, November 2000

October 2000

Can I Get That To Go? Rugged Portable Workstations and Laptops Speed Up  - Jessi E. Callihan, Desktop Engineering, October 2000

Hybrid Before the Hype - commentary by Robert L. Bean, Cadkey Corp., Desktop Engineering, October 2000

Product Configurators are Not the Same as Configuration Management With or Without PDM - Janet Gould, Desktop Engineering, October 2000

September 2000

Building Motor Vehicle Service Bodies - CADInfo.NET, September 2000

MCAD Up Close: Sheet Metal  - Joe Greco, Desktop Engineering, September 2000 

The Olympic Torch  - the story behind the winning design. CADInfo.NET, September 2000

PDAs - The Final eFrontier  - Timothy Dyck, eWEEK, September 24, 2000

Six Web Testing Tools Give It to You Straight  - Jim Rapoza, eWEEK, September 24, 2000

Thinkdesign Helps Perception Kayaks Keep up With World's Most Popular Outdoor Sport - CADInfo.NET, September 2000

Unique Paths to Java Coding  - Peter Coffee, eWEEK, September 27, 2000

August 2000

Documenting a Dig  - CAD and archaeology, by Lili Eylon, CADinfo.NET, August 2000

Oppenheimer Turns to Solids to Handle Increasingly Complex Designs  - CADinfoNET, August 2000

Rapid Prototyping Industry Leader Finds 3DShare is THE Answer - General Pattern Company overcomes a formatting dilemma - Kim Peterson, CADinfoNET, August 2000

Well Rounded Design Tools Deliver the Goods - CADinfo.NET, August 2000

Zen and the Art of Visualization  - CADinfoNET, August 2000

July 2000

Spatial, Inc. a Division of Dassault Systemes - MCAD Vision, July, 2000

CompareDWG Review  - Geoff Harrod, CAD Info.net, July 2000

AutoCAD 2000i: i for Irony? - Roopinder Tara, July 19, 2000

Critical Thinking: An interview with Dr. Nam P. Suh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  - Amy A. Rowell, MCAD Vision, July 2000

Knowledge-Based Design: Are You Using Intelligent Tools?   - Amy A. Rowell, MCADVision, July 2000

Low-Cost 3D MCAD - Respectable in Their Own Right  -Joe Greco, Desktop Engineering, July 2000

Managing Object Coding, Lineweights, and Plotstyles in AutoCAD 2000 - Barrie Mathews, CADinfo.NET, July 2000

Modeling the Axiomatic Design Process - Thomas Gill, MCADVision, July 2000

Scania CV AB Adds IntraVISION as Integral Component of its Matrix PDM System - CADinfo.NET, July 2000

June 2000

Advanced 3D Modeling Gives America's Cup Yachts the Edge - John Hardcastle, CADinfo.NET, June 2000 (Pro/ENGINEER, case history)

A Better Way to Build an Expressway - by Susan Maclean, a case study involving MicroStation, GEOPAK and the $535 million Interstate 55 reconstruction, MicroStation Manager, June 2000

Collaboration on the Internet - By Denise Harrison, Digital CAD, June 2000

e-Business Transforming to a Manufacturing Digital Enterprise - Pat Toole, Jr, and Joel Lemke. CADinfo.NET, June 2000 (e-business)

Enterprisewide Solutions Alter the CAD/GIS Landscape - Adena Schutzberg examines CAD/GIS integration, GeoWorld, June 2000

Flying Through the Animation Producer - by Patrick Harlan, MicroStation Manager, June 2000

Get the Process, OK? - process is more important than tools or technology says Tom Gil, MCAD Vision, June 2000

GPS Times the Internet - By Richard E. Schmidt, GPSWorld Online, June 2000

Igniting the Spark - an interview with Redspark.com's CEO, Dominic Gallello. By Amy Rowell, MCAD Vision, June 2000

Introducing ArcPad - Arc News Online Spring 2000

Live from AEC Systems 2000: Special @EC Edition - Ralph Grabowski, upFront.eZine, #204, June 6, 2000

Mobile Technology Takes GIS to the Field - J.D. Wilson, GeoWorld, June 2000

Moving from 2D to 3D - Bill McClure, Unigraphics Solutions, in Desktop Engineering, June 2000

Moving to Electronic Data Interchange - Geoff Harrod, CADinfo.NET, June 2000

Open Minds Could Eventually Open Data - GIS Online, GeoWorld, June 2000

Pit Program Improves Profits - Australian precast concrete manufacturer writes program for AutoCAD simplifying design of concrete stormwater pits. CADinfo.NET, June 2000

Project Impact: ESRI Helps Map Out Disaster Preparedness - Arc News, June 2000

A Robust ESRI Turns the Corner on the Century - Arc News Online Spring 2000

Teamwork 24/7 - a report on collaboration for design and engineering, including reviews of Alibre and CollabWare. Jeffrey Rowe, MCAD Vision, June 2000 (alibre, CollabWare, collaboration)

Understanding MicroStation BASIC Configuration Variables - by the staff of LA Solutions

May 2000

StudioDesk to Emerge from Autodesk Metamorphosis - CADserver's Martyn Day goes to Autodesk's HQ in San Rafael, California, to gauge Autodesk's new outlook, May 24, 2000

aecXML & IFC - background of new standards, current position of IFC, Bentley's aecXML by Geoff Harrod, CADinfo.NET, May 2000 (CAD Management, Data Transfer, Interoperability)

Booming Right-hand Drive Conversions - Australia's largest converter of Ford F Series vehicles introduced CAD to its engineering operations and realizes a gain in efficiency and business, CADinfo.NET, May 2000

CAD Systems-An Accurate view - accuracy review by the VDA data quality working group and ProSTEP. By Andreas Hund, Otto Kretzschmar and Roberto Sorito,  CATIA Solutions, May/June 2000 (CATIA)

Capturing a City on Computer - computer modeling the city of Jerusalem, CADinfo.NET, May 2000 (MicroStation)

Connecting to the Future at Horsham - By Mary Jo Wagner, GEOEurope, May 2000

Customizing Hatch Patterns, Automatic Saves, Custom Source of tricks) 

Eight Tips for Improving Integration Between CAD and CFD - by Scott Gilmore, Desktop Engineering, May 2000 (engineering, CAD, CFD)

Geoinformation: A Singular Advantage in a Cellular Age - by Steve DuPlessis, GEOEurope, May 2000

INTERLIS 2: the missing link? - By Stefan Keller, GEOEurope May 2000

MapQuest.com Serves Maps to the Masses - interview with MapQuest CEO Mike Mulligan. Business Geographics, May 2000

MCAD Up Close: Chamfering - By Joe Greco, Desktop Engineering, May 2000

Preserving the Past: Geospatial Technologies Combine to Document and Protect Historic Buildings - By Dierdre McCarthy and James Stein, GPSWorld, May 2000

Purifying Jerusalem's Wastewater - a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant from CADinfo.NET, May 2000

"Thin" is "In" - Hal Reid and Joe Francica, Business Geographics, May 2000

April 2000

The Challenge: Safety Through Design by Wayne C. Christensen, Solid Solutions, March/April 2000

Geospatial Information Systems and Utilities: An Indian Case Study - By Kapil Chhabra and Meenu Pall Walia, GeoAsia Pacific, April-May 2000

Internet-based 3D Collaborative CAD: Alibre and CollabWare - A special report by Joe Greco and David Cohn, Desktop Engineering, April 2000

Managing Stormwater Networks in South Australia - By Edmond Verhoef, GeoAsia Pacific, April-May 2000

The Next Wave of Innovation in Mechanical Product Development - By J. Paul Grayson, Alibre Inc. Desktop Engineering, April 2000

Planning the Transition from 2D to 3D - A 6-step guide for design engineers by Lee Whitney, Design News, June 5, 2000

PTC Goes After Virtual Modeling Market - by Matt Villano, Boston Software news

SolidWorks Technology Speeds Design of Siemens Infinity Patient Monitors - Digital CAD, June 2000

Visual Data Access and Competitiveness - By Alain Danik, Cimmetry Systems. Desktop Engineering, April 2000

VX Vision 2.1 - New release of Varimetrix's standalone CAD, by Joe Greco

March 2000

MCAD Up Close: Blending and Filleting - first in a series by Joe Greco, Desktop Engineering, March 2000

Parametric Adds Muscle to Champ Car Racing's Most Successful Team   by Chris Nixon, a look at the Roger Penske team, Cadinfo.net, March 2000

 

 
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