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COFES Blog
By Brian Seitz on
6/25/2009 11:22 AM
Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade and migration strategy may kill off purchases as XP users have no real upgrade path to take. Will engineering shops using XP go through the pain of migration or wait till they need a hardware refresh before making the leap?
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By Russ Henke on
6/25/2009 7:51 AM
Close on the heels of the blog entry in this space on June 21, 2009, entitled “More Solid Progress…”, comes a fresh news release from Autodesk (San Raphael, CA) dated June 24, 2009 that provides an update on Autodesk’s “Inventor Fusion Technology Preview.”
As mentioned in the February 11, 2009 blog entry here entitled, “Solid Progress…,” Autodesk Inventor Fusion is new Digital Prototyping technology that unites the power and control of parametric, history-based modeling with the speed and ease of use of direct, history-free modeling.
The June 24, 2009 Autodesk news release announces the availability starting today of a Technology Preview from Autodesk Labs, a download subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies the download of the software.
Autodesk says that this June 2009 preview is the first step toward Autodesk's goal of providing seamless bidirectional parametric and direct workflows to users by allowing them to adopt the modeling approach that best fits...
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By Russ Henke on
6/21/2009 5:33 AM
In a blog entry in this space on February 11, 2009, entitled, “Solid Progress…” the advancements being made in history-free, feature-based solid modeling CAD technology were discussed. This topic is surely of interest to COFES aficionados.
Two then-recent articles were mentioned on February 11. First, on January 26, 2009 in MCADcafe Weekly, Contributing Editor and CAD veteran Jeff Rowe published an extensive article entitled, “NX 6 – Synchronous Modeling Promotes Design Freedom.” In the article, Jeff reviewed user design and modeling experiences with Siemens PLM’s NX 6 software product. Then on February 4, 2009, Autodesk (San Rafael, CA) unveiled its plans for “Autodesk Inventor Fusion Technology” that promises to unite parametric, history-based modeling with direct, history-free modeling.
You may re-read the February 11 blog entry by accessing this URL:
http://cofes.com/Blogs/tabid/272/EntryId/210/Solid-Progress.aspx
But before you do that, make sure you make note of a new article Dr. Ken Versprille,...
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By Russ Henke on
6/7/2009 3:21 AM
COFES attendees and/or aficionados interested in the recent and future performances of key IP, MCAD and EDA public software vendors are invited to read the latest quarterly Commentaries published on MCADcafe and EDAcafe Internet portals. (An earlier blog entry in this space on March 13, 2009, provided access to similar articles for the previous quarter).
The latest Electronics Intellectual Property (IP) Commentary was posted on May 10, 2009. It covers ARM, Ceva, LogicVision, MIPS, MoSys, Rambus and Virage Logic.
Copy and paste this URL into your browser:
http://www10.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=691493
The latest MCAD Industry Commentary was posted on May 28, 2009. It covers ANSYS, Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, ESI Group, MSC.Software and PTC.
Copy and paste this URL into your browser:
http://www10.mcadcafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=700131
The latest Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Commentary was posted on June 04, 2009. It covers Altium, Cadence, Magma,...
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By Russ Henke on
6/6/2009 6:36 AM
Just 12 days ago on May 25, 2009, we discussed in this blog space the search for signs that the current economic recession might be bottoming out. For weeks, optimists had been suggesting that the May 8, 2009 Labor Department report of “only” 539,000 jobs lost in April was a sure sign that the worst was over. The revised figure for April is even better – only 504,000 jobs were actually lost, said the Labor Department on June 5, 2009.
More striking is the Labor Department report for jobs lost in May 2009, released yesterday – only 345,000! Yes indeed – a definite improvement!
But the damage done since the recession began in December 2007 is very much still with us, as set forth in the May 25, 2009 blog entry previously mentioned and as articulated soberly and comprehensively in a June 5, 2009 article in the New York Times by Peter Goodman & Jack Healy, entitled, “Hints of Hope Even as Jobless Rate Jumps to 9.4%.”
Just copy and paste to your browser the following URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/business/economy/06jobs.html?th&emc=th
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