Author Archives: Jon Hirschtick

Great customer visit yesterday to Mako Surgical in Florida www.makosurgical.com.  Knee surgery in 1 hour.  Home same day.  Walk that night.  No kidding. An absolutely amazing collection of many cool technologies.  CAT scans, complex SolidWorks surfacing, their own high-accuracy robot

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Great event today in New Jersey as SolidWorks reseller Cimquest rolls out SolidWorks 2011 and MasterCAM X5. Cimquest is also celebrating it's 20th anniversary.  Congratulations Cimquest for 20 great years. I learned a lot about CAM today.  Saw some demos

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Saturday morning speaker at COFES in Scottsdale: Bo Burlingham, author and journalist from Inc Magazine. He talked (actually talking as I write this) about companies that choose to be great — not necessarily big. Entrepreneurs who choose to do the

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Friday morning at COFES in Scottsdale Arizona we had a very unusual speaker: Omid Moghadam Research Fellow Harvard Medical School That's right — Harvard Medical School.  So why a Harvard Medical School guy at the Congress On the Future of

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Once again I am attending COFES — the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software.  Approximately 200 people from the CAD/CAE software industry.  Not many customers — mostly software developers, press, and industry consultants. COFES draws me back year after

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Joel Orr's fascintating keynote Saturday Morning at COFES 2009: "Remembering The Future" Joel showed some really cool old web pages from 1999.  Check out the Internet WayBack Machine at https://www.archive.org.  Search there on https://joelorr.com.  Click on his 1996 webpage and

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The elder statesman of our CAD industry, Joel Orr, keynotes Saturday morning COFES session.  His theme: Remembering The Future. Joel played a key role in my personal career.  I met Joel in 1987 when I was raising money for my

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Final Friday COFES session had a load of way cool stuff: Simon Floyd of Microsoft just showed an amazing video that imagines a future world with huge touch/gesture screens everywhere, plus tons of other cool technologies.  Watch it here: https://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-g9JBSEBu2q8/microsofts_future_vision_2019/ 

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I am in a COFES session on sustainable design.  COFES 2009 has a whole new track "DaS" on sustainable design. There is a lot that engineering software companies can do.  Rick Chin of SolidWorks has presented the cool Sage product

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Great start to COFES 2009 this morning. Chuck House keynote speech was really interesting.  Chuck is an engaging speaker who has been around Silicon Valley a long time.  Lots of fascinating stories about technology evolution in places like HP, Stanford,

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It's great to back in Scottsdale Arizona for the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software (COFES).  The opening night reception last night was, as usual, a great chance to meet many CAD industry insiders and personalities. Steve Wolfe, Brad

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