More parametrics in form•Z in early 2001

December 22, 2000

AutoDesSys, Inc., developer of form•Z, announced today that it will release s recently concluded that it would be beneficial to the intereversion 3.8 in early 2001 before version 4.0 which is now scheduled to be released in mid-2001. form•Z 3.8 will be demonstrated at Macworld Expo, January 9-12, 2001, in San Francisco, California, and will be released for beta-testing in mid-January.

form•Z 3.8 is a major step towards the previously announced v. 4.0. Given the focus of v. 4.0 on opening form•Z's architecture to plug-ins, auto•des•syst of users, as well as to the evolution of form•Z, to release additional parametric capabilities as general purpose features, before the arrival of v. 4.0. The new features in version 3.8 are primarily additional parametric capabilities and operations based on ACIS and on AutoDesSys' own newly enhanced modeling libraries.

For the specific features in form•Z 3.8 go to the form•Z 3.8 page.


The 1999-2000 form•Z Joint Study Report

December 21, 2000

This year's Joint Study Report has been published and was again produced as a printed book and in digital format on a CD. Both vibrate with exceptional work representing about 11,000 students from over 250 Universities world-wide whose education in the new digital media is supported by AutoDesSys' Joint Study Program. The Joint Study Report was sent to all participating schools and also our family plan subscribers. Others may request to have one sent to them, as long as supplies last. A digital version of the printed report is also avaliable on this site.




form•Z Joint Study 2000 Awards

November 15, 2000
Congratulations to all! On October 20, 2000,AutoDesSys hosted a dinner to announce and hand out the annual Joint Study Awards at the ACADIA conference held at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.

These awards go to academic projects, created by deserving students around the world, and selected by a distinguished jury comprised of academicians and professionals. For a complete list go to the 2000 Joint Study Awards page.

Award Winnners depicted: from left to right, front row: Manuel Saez (Product Design - Bridgeport University, Connecticut), Dan Barney (Architecture - Miami University of Ohio); back row: Dan Marsden (Visualization - Blackpool and the Flyde College, United Kingdom), Chris Yessios (President of AutoDesSys), Ben Feldman (Urban Design - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), Jason Schlatter (Architecture - honorable mention - Ball State University).

The award winning projects as well as all the work submitted by the colleges, universities, and secondary education schools for the 1999 - 2000 academic year, will be available in the "8th Annual Joint Study Report, Partnerships in Learing." It will be published by December 2000 in print and on CD.

 

form•Z 3.6.5

October 23, 2000

form•Z 3.6 has been refined to correct any irregularities reported to AutoDesSys. This latest update has been mailed to all form•Z 3.6 users. A patch is also available on this site.



form•Z in Hollywood

October 21, 2000

form•Z was recently used in "Space Cowboys" and in "Sandwich a la Nickelodeon". To find out more details, please link respectively to www.postmagazine.com/features/video/
0800summer_movies/summer_movies.htm and www.postmagazine.com/db/news/175.htm