ZWCAD Club Bloghttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/By users, for users.RainbowSoft Studio Z-Blog 1.8 Arwen Build 90619zh-CN© Copyright 2009 ZWCAD Club, Inc. Some Rights Reserved.Reproduction or copying of images is prohibited. Powered By Z-Blogvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-6182144-3");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}Thu, 13 May 2010 17:35:48 +0800Winners of ZWCAD Design Contest 2010 Announcedted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/71.htmlThu, 13 May 2010 17:18:41 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/71.htmlSource: http://cadcontest.zwcad.org/

"ZWSOFT is pleased to announce our Design Contest winners. Thanks to all of our participants and the many ZWCAD fans who continue to push forward the development of this CAD software. And thanks to Deelip Menezes and Ralph Grabowski, the two world-famous professionals in the CAD industry who dedicated their time to the final selection of our contest."

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]]>News&Eventshttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/71.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=71http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=71&key=165c7fe5The DWG Trademark Issuehuangxueyou@zwcad.com (Lizzy)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/70.htmlThu, 13 May 2010 15:44:50 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/70.htmlSource: http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Autodesk+(ADSK)+And+ODA+Settle+DWG+Trademark+Litigation/5516616.html

...]]>News&Eventshttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/70.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=70http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=70&key=aa082fb6The Decade That Was ( by Deelip)ted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/68.htmlTue, 05 Jan 2010 11:01:48 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/68.html 


Today is the last day of the first decade of the 21st century. I guess everyone has an interesting story to tell about this past decade, and so have I...

]]>Thoughts in CADhttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/68.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=68http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=68&key=6e2bde9cThe complacency of subscription income (by Ralph)ted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/67.htmlThu, 24 Dec 2009 08:53:25 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/67.html 


All large CAD vendor yearn to have all customers on subscription or maintenance. That gives the vendors regular paycheques, and tends to lock in customers for one more year. 
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]]>Thoughts in CADhttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/67.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=67http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=67&key=a38e0d0fTalking guardedly about being open (by Ralph)ted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/66.htmlWed, 23 Dec 2009 09:05:37 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/66.htmlGoogle senior vp of product management Jonathan Rosenberg writes four thousand words about the pros and cons of open and closed systems:
 

...eventually innovation in a closed system tends towards being incremental at best (is a four blade razor really that much better than a three blade one?) because the whole point is to preserve the status quo.
...]]>Thoughts in CADhttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/66.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=66http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=66&key=028f5ce6My Take On Product Reviews ( by Deelip )ted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/64.htmlThu, 10 Dec 2009 16:23:50 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/64.html 


Just last night, Al Dean of DEVELOP3D and I were having an exchange on Twitter about software product reviews. I was making the point that you simply cannot do what people love to call an “in-depth review” of a CAD system in about 2000 words. Al was of the opinion that things were relative and depended on how deep the writer needed to go and also on the audience.

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]]>Thoughts in CADhttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/64.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=64http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=64&key=b09202ffDon’t Be Serious, Be Sincere (by Deelip)ted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/63.htmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 09:13:04 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/63.html 


  Today someone sent me the following excerpt of a speech made by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis, one of India’s top business schools. The New York Times has called Chetan the ‘the bigge

]]>Thoughts in CADhttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/63.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=63http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=63&key=52bf28abAdobe Pulls a Visio (by Ralph)ted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/62.htmlTue, 17 Nov 2009 09:01:26 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/62.html
 

There was a time in the mid-1990s when Visio Corp set forth its plan to become the vendor of drawing tools. It already had the Visio diagramming software; it had acquired the IntelliCAD design software...

]]>Thoughts in CADhttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/62.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=62http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=62&key=e41f7133AutoCAD 2010 Reduces Work Week to 3.3 Hrs (By Ralph)ted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/61.htmlFri, 13 Nov 2009 13:46:54 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/61.html A number of people have been writing in, chuckling over efficiency gains Autodesk is claiming for AutoCAD -- not just this week, but over the last decade. Here are some of the claims...

]]>Thoughts in CADhttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/61.html#commenthttp://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/feed.asp?cmt=61http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=61&key=9e4cc13aAlibre: Force Us to Be 10x Cheaper (By Ralph)ted.scofield@hotmail.com (ted)http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/60.htmlTue, 10 Nov 2009 09:19:34 +0800http://www.zwcadclub.com/en/blogs/CAD-1/post/60.html


   Alibre promises to license you its software for 10x cheaper than the price quoted by a comparable competitor. (The announcement will be m

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