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Ralph Grabowski

Digital Government

Feature-rich AutoCAD 2000 debuts

Autodesk Inc. has dubbed the new release of its flagship product 'AutoCAD 2000,' instead of Release 15, to symbolize the move into the next millennium. For AutoCAD, the next millennium begins with a bang: The new release adds 400 or so features, including significant changes to the user interface.

  • By Ralph Grabowski
Digital Government

Roadway Design: Tool Lets You Pick Your Platform

When I worked as a transportation engineer in the early 1980s, our consulting engineering office did its roadway design using HewlettPackard Co. programmable calculators and mylar overlay sheets. Computeraided design software was something we were keeping an eye on, but all we could afford were t

  • By Ralph Grabowski