In this era of ribbons and icons, people often refer to AutoCAD’s “archaic” command line method of typing in commands at the keyboard. The bottom line, however, is that most real “power users” such as Lynn Allen and dave espinoza-aguilar still use keyboard entry of commands and options.

Autodesk Inventor 2014 introduces a new type of assembly constraint, as well as a new type of motion control. Okay, I lied; the new joint functionality does both at once, in one step.

 

When personal computers began to proliferate in the late 1980’s, two professors at Waterloo University realized that their number-crunching capabilities were ideally suited to the job of… well, of number crunching. Accordingly, they formed a company called Waterloo Maple Inc.

I recently flew to Waltham, MA (just outside Boston) to visit the new offices of the SolidWorks division of Dassault Systèmes and to attend a media session on the roll-out of the 2013 release of SolidWorks (www.solidworks.com).

ATI, based in Markham, ON, was a very-well-known producer of computer graphics cards for many years. It was a pioneer in the development of the Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) that effectively turned the graphics card a computer within a computer.