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25yearscadalyst All New editions of Pro Dozens of new & improved features see the difference! Platinum Architectural Mechanical CADalyst, Volume 3, Number 5 (November/ December 1986) was the last issue with the table of contents printed on the cover. If you look carefully, King Kong is snacking on the table of contents. In September 1990, CADalyst launched the Images Awards, later dubbed the Caddies by Joel Orr after he saw the trophy. ORDER TODAY! 1-800-833-8082 its price range.º ± PlanRoom Central www.turbocad.com 22 alyst, in the summer of 1987 Johnston offered me a job. I moved to Vancouver, and in December 1987 became the magazine' s senior editor. In that issue, Johnston wrote, ª After several months of struggle with Canadian bureaucracy, CADalyst has succeeded in getting David Cohn across the 49th Parallel without resorting to making him swim, climb mountains, or hide in American computer export cartons. David has joined us as senior editor (he gets a desk by the window) and takes over much of the responsibility for driving the operations of our editorial department.º By the time I joined the staff, CADalyst had nearly a dozen employees. My Memphis newsletter wasn' t the only competition. Cadence, another AutoCAD magazine, published its first issue in 1986. Started by people with actual publishing experience, it sprang to life as a full-color glossy magazine (actually, the first article for which I was ever paid appeared in Cadence, not CADalyst). A lawsuit between CADalyst and Cadence raged for several years before being settled, and the editor of Cadence even threatened to sue me at one point for claiming that the Memphis newsletter was the ªt hird-largest AutoCAD publication.º But Cadence is no more Ð after publishing 210 issues, it was acquired by CADalyst in December 2003. Over the years, CADalyst has published a lot of hardware and software reviews. My colleagues and I began the practice of rating products, including awarding the best products with CADalyst' s Highly Recommended rating. At one time, after the first major redesign of the magazine, reviews written by either Grabowski or me included talking-head cartoons along with thumbs-up/thumbs-down comments reminiscent of Siskel and Ebert. We had a strict policy: If a company sent us a product to review, good or bad we would write about it. Although most products received at least passing grades, we panned a few, and several products were pulled from sale rather than have scathing reviews appear in the pages of CADalyst. Of course, with CADalyst published monthly, a lot more articles written by outside writers appeared. Bill Fane wrote the first installment of his longrunning ª Learning Curveº column in February 1987, and he continues to write it today. The most popular feature by far was the tips and tricks column, and the character of Hot Tip Harry would become a major fixture in the pages of CADalyst (although not before similar columns appeared under the bylines of Warm Tip Willy, Scorch Tip Sarah, Burning Tip Bertha, Tepid Tip Timothy, and www.cadalyst.com cadalyst June 2008 http://www.turbocad.com http://www.turbocad.com http://www.cadalyst.com

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Cadalyst - June 2008 Contents Editor's Window CAD Central Tech Trends: Community Building in Progress A Quarter Century of Cadalyst Tracking a CAD Giant The Highs and Lows of CAD Hardware Industry Insights — Looking Ahead Cadalyst Lab Reviews: HP xw4600 Workstation with LP3065 30” LCD Monitor NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 — Graphics Card LaCie 324 — LCD Monitor CAD Manager: Making Standards Stick MCAD Modeling: Rational vs. Irrational Decisions AEC Insight: Data Collection in AEC CAD Cartoon Issue Indexes Hot Tip Harry: Just a Few CAD Renovations

Cadalyst - June 2008

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