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  • CAD in Japan

    I'm at the SolidWorks 2009 conference in Orlando, Florida, looking out my hotel room window, which oversees a lake lined with palm trees, the Swan Resort with giant statures of swans on its rooftop, and blue, sunny skys. I heard it is warmer in Cleveland, but I am in no rush to get back home to snow, ice, and near zero temperatures. ...
    Posted to From Shop Floor to Software (Weblog) by Leslie_Gordon on February 11, 2009
  • 2009 PTC Annual Global and Media Analyst Event

    Boston is sunny but cold -- a nice break from our gloomy Cleveland winter and its excessive snowfalls. PTC is holding its annual media event at the company's Needham corporate headquarters. Attending are about 100 to 150 media analysts and a few trade journalists from Japan, Italy, Germany, and the U.S., among other countries. Part of ...
    Posted to From Shop Floor to Software (Weblog) by Leslie_Gordon on January 14, 2009
  • Old DWG, New BIM?

    CAD at the Venetian Resort   Autodesk is again hosting its annual Autodesk University (AU) event at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. It's still pretty early, so things haven't yet geared up. The developer must have sympathy for those of us who travel a distance to get here and thus are still reeling from jetlag -- the keynote ...
    Posted to From Shop Floor to Software (Weblog) by Leslie_Gordon on December 2, 2008
  • Hydraulic Pump design

    Where can i find a person that can design hydraulic pumps? immediatly Terra 503-612-2040
    Posted to General Engineering Discussions (Forum) by TerraLyn on August 19, 2008
  • Live from Autodesk World Press Day 2008, San Francisco

    Day one brought announcements about new capabilities in Autodesk's 2009 releases. But all that later. CEO Carl Bass spoke on trends on CAD. An interesting example, he says, is the bar for engineering and design has been raised by the gorgeous graphics of entertainment industries. Another trend has an increasingly global ...
    Posted to From Shop Floor to Software (Weblog) by Leslie_Gordon on February 13, 2008
  • Big trends in the future of CAD

    Day Two: Jeff Ray, CEO of SolidWorks, says the show has so far drawn 4,400 attendees. In the future, he wants to see more sharing between DS technologies and SolidWorks. He says software developers cannot afford to ''fall in love with their own technologies.'' Companies should never think that they own customers. Nobody does. Customers can pick ...
    Posted to From Shop Floor to Software (Weblog) by Leslie_Gordon on January 20, 2008
  • Welcome to my new blog

    This new blog is a continuation of my on-going one, archived here. As mentioned previously, my first love is manufacturing, specifically the shop floor. I moved through the ranks the hard way, in one job, working for a half-crazy, old-world machinist, Frank. His motto: ''You shalt NOT make scrap.'' His was the classic old-fashioned shop -- ...
    Posted to From Shop Floor to Software (Weblog) by Leslie_Gordon on August 2, 2007