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Articolo pubblicato nell'aprile 2007 sul blog di BAIA. Daniele Girardi is one of the most interesting young artists of the contemporary Italian art scene (website). In his works Daniele explores the fusion of different techniques, repeatedly converting manual work into digital form and vice versa, resulting in a highly sophisticated mosaic of images that contain... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel marzo 2007 sul blog di BAIA. Nazzareno Gorni is the co-founder and Business Development of NWEB, the Italian company offering MailUp, a popular e-mail marketing service. Nazzareno is a friend of BAIA and I invited him to participate in the following interview. MailUp logo Nazzareno, can you tell us a bit about... Continue Reading →
Ron Fritz is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tech Soft 3D, the company that makes the famous HOOPS3D, a graphics toolkit used by several design applications. The impressive list of TechSoft3D customers includes Alibre, Autodesk, Bentley, Fluent, IronCAD, MSC.Software, PTC, SolidWorks, and TransMagic. After a long phase of apparent immobility, the announcement of some new products such as Acrobat 3D 8, AfterCAD, and SpaceClaim has kindled a spark of excitement in... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel marzo 2007 sul blog di Novedge. Robert McNeel is the CEO of Robert McNeel & Associates, the company that makes the famous CAD modeling software Rhinoceros, simply known as Rhino or Rhino3D. Novedge has been a McNeel reseller since the opening of our online store. The recent release of Rhino 4.0 was... Continue Reading →
Antonio Pellizzaro is the Lead Developer of Actify, the software manufacturer of the SpinFire product line, a group of applications for CAD data visualization and sharing. Actify and Novedge are both located in San Francisco, a few blocks away. I invited Antonio to participate in the following interview. The interview Franco: Can you tell us... Continue Reading →
My interview with Sean Flaherty, the CEO of Nemetschek North America, the American branch of Nemetschek AG, the German company that is well known worldwide for products like VectorWorks and Allplan.
Article published on March 5, 2007 on NOVEDGE blog. Alex Mazzardo is the Managing Director at EVOQE, the worldwide publisher of the solidThinking product line, a suite of applications for industrial designers (CAID - Computer Aided Industrial Design). A few days ago EVOQE launched Modeler, a new product, and updated the entire solidThinking line. Taking... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel febbraio 2007 sul blog di NOVEDGE. I like to call it "CAD Data Visualization," another may prefer DDC (Digital Design Communication), someone else might like the ambitious acronym PDC (Product Design Collaboration), but whatever name you choose, this kind of software program has been around for many years. The central idea is... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel febbraio 2007 sul blog di NOVEDGE. In the last few years several companies from around the world have entered the market in the development and commercialization of CAD, CAM, and graphic software. Some are from countries that have a long tradition of software production, such as France with Dassault. Others, from countries... Continue Reading →
Article posted on the Official BAIA blog on February, 2007. Massimo Arrigoni is the co-founder and CEO of Early Impact, the company making ProductCart, a popular shopping cart program for e-commerce. Massimo is a friend of BAIA and I invited him to participate in the following interview: How did you ended up in California founding an e-commerce company?I fell in love. Not... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel febbraio 2007 sul blog di NOVEDGE. Is CAD software following the same path of web browsers? According to some small-size 2D CAD vendors (as reported by Ralph Grabowski) there are too many free CAD systems and too long lasting free trials around. As a CAD reseller I should agree, and maybe I... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel dicembre 2006 sul blog di NOVEDGE. In 3D, designers need to master the art of creating parametric CAD models I was pleasantly surprised to see so many readers going through my recent post about the slow transition from 2D to 3D. Several readers left thoughtful comments explaining why they still use 2D... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel dicembre 2006 sul blog di NOVEDGE. It’s that time of year for predictions and forecasts. I'll take up the challenge, try my best to look into the crystal ball, and tell you what I see for CAD for the year ahead. More Internet Internet will become even more pervasive for CAD systems... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel dicembre 2006 sul blog di NOVEDGE. For as long as I can remember, sophisticated 3D CAD systems have been on the verge of fully replacing the supposedly inefficient 2D CAD systems. For years it has been considered just a matter of time before the obvious advantages of 3D systems would push traditional... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel dicembre 2006 sul blog di NOVEDGE. I read the interesting post of Ralph Grabowski about fat CAD systems and how the Internet can change the way users purchase CAD software. First of all, let me say that I agree with Ralph. Most CAD systems are packaged with an incredible collection of features,... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel novembre 2006 sul blog di BAIA Every time a new tool appears on the Internet, a group of early adopters jump into it and, with great enthusiasm, explore all the possible uses. They leverage the new tool to achieve new positive results, such as increasing the engagement, sharing different types of content,... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel novembre 2006 sul blog di BAIA Generally speaking, Italy is not perceived as one of the best places for software development. Personally, I disagree with that perception. I know that Italy has a rich pool of top quality software developers, highly qualified just as most US developers. Also, Italy has a small... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso nel novembre 2006 sul blog di BAIA https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L5JVLIK?ie=UTF8&tag=ffbooks-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B00L5JVLIK Yesterday I attended the Green Festival 2006 event in San Francisco. Over the past few years this annual appointment has changed considerably: the business side of the green movement is growing and is attracting more attention. The environmentally friendly business is gaining respect and attracting... Continue Reading →
Lungo la costa californiana del Pacifico non è inusuale incontrare dei vecchi fari. Prima che la tecnologia risolvesse il problema degli scogli consentendo ai naviganti di orientarsi anche nelle giornate più nebbiose, i fari hanno avuto un ruolo importante nel ridurre il numero dei naufragi. Scendendo qualche km a sud di Pescadero si incontra un... Continue Reading →
Foto scattate in centro San Francisco in occasione delle proteste pacifiste contro la guerra in Iraq fortemente voluta dal presidente statunitense George W. Bush e dal suo governo repubblicano.Ieri, 20 marzo 2013, George W. Bush ha dichiarato guerra all'Iraq di Saddam Hussein e ha ha dato avvio all'invasione. Oggi i pacifisti sono scesi in strada... Continue Reading →
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