MCAD Tech News #201
14 Feb, 2007 By: Jeffrey RoweSteve Wozniak believes that having fun and being the best at what you do are incentives enough. I just returned from the SolidWorks World 2007 user conference in New Orleans. As usual, the company put together a conference that was well worth attending, and it afforded me the opportunity to meet with SolidWorks executives, developers, partners and users. The conference also provided me a chance to meet and chat briefly with Steve Wozniak, formerly known as "the other Steve" who cofounded Apple Computer, but now is recognized as a man of many of talents, interests and possibilities. For those of you who don't know or know of Wozniak, he possesses a rare combination of intelligence, passion and a sense of mischief, and he showed all of these personality traits at SolidWorks World, both at a private press dinner and during his keynote speech the next morning. Over the years Wozniak has had several nicknames, including The Woz and Wizard of Woz. WoZ (Wheels of Zeus) is also the name of a GPS company Wozniak founded. He also developed, in four days, the initial prototype of the classic Atari game Breakout. Although Wozniak supposedly is known for his introverted character, he seemed very personable to me, and I noted that, although he finds his level of celebrity somewhat annoying, he puts up with it gracefully. Steve Wozniak has had a unique career that began as a computer engineer who later turned teacher and philanthropist. As an educator for eight years, he taught 10-to-13-year-olds, and his goal was to make learning fun. Contributing to the fun part were his use of animation and 3D tools in his classes.Read more>> By Ron LaFon KOMPAS-3D v8 is a capable and sophisticated 3D mechanical design application that provides a framework for 3D parametric solid modeling. Developed by the ASCON Group in Saint Petersburg, Russia, KOMPAS-3D previously was available only in a Russian-language version, but Cadalyst got its hands on the relatively new English version. With the depth of features offered by KOMPAS-3D, this review can serve only as an introduction. Read more>> Mark Your Calendar: MCAD Events Webcast: Introduction to NVIDIA Visual Computing Solutions NAFEMS World Congress 2007 PLM Road Map 2007 For Cadalyst's full calendar of events, click here. what's new at cadalyst.com Online Archives:Click here to view an online version of this newsletter and past issues of MCAD Tech News. Cadalyst's February Web Exclusives Now Live Online! Announcing: Cadalyst Online PlanRoom Cadalyst Daily Update
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