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An Interview with George Omura, AutoCAD Writer

by Franco Folini September 19, 2007 0 min read

George Omura (website) is an architect, illustrator, and animator, but he is mostly known for his books. He is a world-renowned author with more than 500,000 books in print, mostly about AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. The first book I read about AutoCAD, back in 1991, was written by George. Like myself, legions of AutoCAD users […]

An Interview with Paul Wilkinson, AEC Collaboration Expert and Writer

by Franco Folini September 14, 2007 0 min read

Paul Wilkinson is a British AEC expert and writer. In October 2005 he published a very interesting book, Construction Collaboration Technologies: The Extranet Evolution, about collaboration tools and processes for the AEC sector. The book is not an academic exercise but is based on his long professional experience. Paul also keeps a blog (Extranet Evolution) […]

CAD Companies Push the Marketing Frontier on Wikipedia

by Franco Folini August 29, 2007 0 min read

Reading Paul Wilkinson blog, I discovered a sophisticated and pretty useful online tool called Wikipedia Scanner created by Virgil Griffith. Using the WikiScanner anybody can check the anonymous editing of Wikipedia pages done from computers registered under company domains such as Autodesk, SolidWork, and Adobe. A search for edits from the Autodesk domain returns a […]

An Interview with Jimmy Bergmark, AutoCAD Guru

by Franco Folini August 28, 2007 0 min read

Jimmy Bergmark is the owner and principal of JTB World, a Swedish consulting company specializing in AutoCAD programming and customization. Jimmy is well known in the AutoCAD community because of his constant presence and highly qualified advice in several discussion forums and also because of his popular technical blog. Jimmy has been working with AutoCAD […]

An Interview with Mary Hope McQuiston, Head of Autodesk Extended Design Group

by Franco Folini August 21, 2007 0 min read

Mary Hope McQuiston is the head of the Extended Design Group of Autodesk, the group in charge of all DWF products including Design Review, Freewheel, and the DWF Toolkit. The CAD visualization market is currently at the center of a battle for the establishment of a standard file format for collaboration and visualization of CAD […]

An Interview with Robert Green, author of “Expert CAD Management”

by Franco Folini July 23, 2007 0 min read

Robert Green is the author of the new book Expert CAD Management: The Complete Guide (288 pages, published by Sybex) and the head of the Robert Green Consulting Group. Robert is well known for his insightful articles published by the popular Cadalyst magazine. Having spent a few years myself as a consultant to support CAD […]

An Interview with David Ptak, President of SolidProfessor

by Franco Folini July 19, 2007 0 min read

David Ptak is the President of SolidProfessor, a company that is revolutionizing the concept of training for CAD and CAM users. SolidProfessor is proposing a product line of high quality interactive video focused mostly on SolidWorks and related engineering tools. While video training has been around for a while, SolidProfessor is raising the bar with […]

An Interview with Andrew Keen, Author of “The Cult of the Amateur”

by Franco Folini July 16, 2007 0 min read

Andrew Keen (blog) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and a writer. When his new book, The Cult of the Amateur, hit the bookstores a few weeks ago, it immediately attracted critics’ attention. The book questions the core values of the Web 2.0 revolution, exposing its economic, ethical, and social dangers. As with every revolution, even […]

An Interview with Jon Banquer, “Enfant Terrible” of CAD/CAM

by Franco Folini July 05, 2007 0 min read

Jon Banquer is well known in the CAD/CAM community for his daily presence on some of the most popular newsgroups. According to Google Groups, Jon wrote a total of 6,267 posts on the Usenet newsgroups since he began posting in June 1999. See Jon's old-profile and current-profile. (The King of CAD/CAM Usenet groups is a […]

An Interview with Scott Sorochak, CEO of BookCrossing

by Franco Folini July 02, 2007 0 min read

Scott Sorochak is the CEO of BookCrossing, a company and website based on a simple and revolutionary idea about sharing books. BookCrossing was founded in 2001 by Ron Hornbaker, Heather Mehra-Pedersen, and Bruce Pedersen. Since then the community of bookcrossers has gown continuosly. Scott, a bookcrosser under the name of redsoxbookguy and a blogger, recently […]

An Interview with Francis Cadin, CEO of Datakit

by Franco Folini June 28, 2007 0 min read

Francis Cadin is the CEO and founder of Datakit, the French company specialized in CAD data translation. Datakit products come in two different flavors: some translators perform their sensitive tasks embedded under the hood of a software program while others come as plug-ins or standalone applications. For example, if you are opening a SolidWorks file […]

An Interview with Roopinder Tara, CEO of TenLinks

by Franco Folini June 25, 2007 0 min read

Roopinder Tara is the President, CEO, editor and founder of TenLinks.com, the popular website that is a reference for the online CAD, CAM and CAE community. In the ever changing Internet world TenLinks has been a reliable source of information for many years. Roopinder is the man behind TenLinks. If you are curious to know […]

An Interview with Brad Peebler, CEO of Luxology (modo)

by Franco Folini June 20, 2007 0 min read

Brad Peebler is the CEO of Luxology, the company that makes modo. Luxology modo is based on a technology called polygon/surface subdivision that is changes the way 3D artists and designers create shapes and frees their creativity. Some of the ideas and technologies powering Luxology modo will have a significant impact behind the DCC (Digital […]

An Interview with David Opsahl, CEO of Actify (Spinfire)

by Franco Folini June 17, 2007 0 min read

David Opsahl is the CEO of Actify, the company that makes the SpinFire products for CAD data visualization. The CAD data visualization market is going through some very important changes with acquisitions (Cimmetry and Agile) and new products (Acrobat 3D) available to end users. Actify has been in this market for several years and has […]

An Interview with Joe Anand, CEO of MecSoft (VisualMill and RhinoCAM)

by Franco Folini June 14, 2007 0 min read

Joe Anand is the CEO of MecSoft, the company that makes the famous CAM products VisualMill and RhinoCAM. we have been the first to use the OpenNurbs technology and to write a full-fledged CAM plug-in for Rhino The CAM market is fragmented with several small players. Many of them are selling good technologies but having […]

An Interview with Dan Ablan, 3D Guru and Writer

by Apolomultimedia.com Collaborator June 11, 2007 0 min read

Daniel Ablan is a well known 3D computer graphics expert and writer. He is the author of several books about Newtek LightWave, Luxology Modo, and digital photography and cinematography. Dan heads two businesses: AGA Digital Studios, a professional services and training company, and 3DGarage.com, which produces and sells training DVDs. Knowing Dan through Novedge, I […]

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