- Architosh Staff (info@architosh.com)
- 2 March 2004
-
Tidbits: PDF/E
and the Mac OS, Autodesk and other related CAD items
PDF/E - PDF Engineering Working Group and Mac OS X
An important new standard appears to be emerging for the engineering/CAD
markets called PDF/E, a specific dialect of the universal Adobe
PDF format for engineering drawings. There is a new PDF Engineering
Working Group that is tasked with advancing Adobe PDF in engineering
workflows and creating an ISO standard by 2006 if possible. The
project is being overseen by two organizations (AIIM
and NPES) with members such as:
- Adobe Systems
- Agile (A PLM software company)
- Bentley Systems (who have been advancing PDF and cooperating
with Adobe)
- HP
- Oce (who's many plotters use PDF as a standard printing language)
- Intel
- PTC
- Layton Graphics
- Dell and others...
Apple Computer should get involved to make sure tools, software
kits and the standard itself has feature parity on the Mac OS X
platform. And Mac CAD users should demand that their favorite CAD
and technical drawing applications get more involved as well so
that the (Mac) platform can be a full participant in an important
new standard.
Autodesk on the Come Back
Autodesk just recently announced good financial news for their
latest quarter. The company is a small bellwether for the entire
CAD industry itself and the positive news can be taken to suggest
other CAD vendors may be seeing a rise in sales and profits as well.
For the year Autodesk's revenue was up at $951.6 million, from $824.9
million the previous year.
The company is working aggressively on new DWF tools for both production
and viewing. It's planned DWF viewer for Mac OS X is the first native
Mac application from the world's largest CAD company in over 10
years. The DWF viewer is going to be analyzed as an "index"
of potential demand for a full
native version of Autocad for Mac OS X.
COFES 2004
The Congress
on the Future of Engineering Software starts April 1, 2004 in
Scottsdale, Arizona. The invitation-only event is a unique "think-tank"
oriented and small scale conference focused on the future of CAD
and engineering software. Major sponsors of the event include Fortune
magazine, HP and Microsoft. To learn more go
here.
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Joe Esch: SketchUp, Cocoa and Mac OS X
Bill
Gates' House Designed on Macintosh?
Only
on Architosh
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