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P r e s s R e l e a s e RATING THE CADKEY LISP and DWG READ-WRITE APIs Newsletter for CAD Developers Celebrates 1st Anniversary SUMAS, WA, USA — 5 January, 1994 — XYZ Publishing today announced the January issue of the CAD++ Newsletter, the international reference for CAD developers, is now available. The newsletter is the first to cover the the three APIs capable of reading and writing AutoCAD DWG files. In this first of a two-part series, translator expert Scott Taylor reviews products from Autodesk OEM/Sirlin, Marcomp, and SoftSource. DXF Expert Dietmar Rudolph examines how well CadKey's CKLISP works with AutoLISP from five different viewpoints. He concludes that CadKey, Inc., has it marketing backwards, attracting the right developers for the wrong reasons. This issue of CAD++ also features the MicroStation PowerDraft road tour, the first of Bentley's out-of-the-starting-block attack on the supremacy of Autodesk's AutoCAD. CAD++ VERSION 2.01 The CAD++ Newsletter is now one year old! The 1st anniversary issue features the some of the best authors writing about issues important to CAD developers, programmers, and users: + Industry analysis by Scott Taylor: "Rating the DWG Access APIs" + Exclusive CAD++ Survey: "The DWG API Vendors Respond to R13." + Crossplatform Development by Dietmar Rudolph: "Porting AutoLISP Apps to CadKey LISP." + MicroStation Programming by Odd Hallstein Ystanes: "Add Contents to User Data Links via UCM" + Marketing Data by Ralph Grabowski: "The PowerDraft Road Tour." + The Garage Entrepreneur by Jake Richter: "The Successful Press Release." + Exclusive Interview by Ralph Grabowski: "CadKey Opens the Books" SUBSCRIBE TO CAD++ TODAY! Members of NAAUG (North American Autodesk User Group), ADGE (Autodesk Developers Group – Europe), the Spanish AUG (AutoCAD User Group), and CAD users in Hong Kong receive an additional 20% discount on all subscription rates. CONTACT INFORMATION For subscription information and a complimentary copy, contact CAD++ at PO Box 3053, Sumas WA, 98295-3053, USA. Fax to +1 (604) 859-9597 or send email to ralphg@haven.uniserve.com or CompuServe 72700,3205. + + + CAD++ and CAD infinitum are trademarks of XYZ Publishing, Ltd. CAD++, the newsletter, is in no way associated with Sirlin Corporation's CAD++ ENGINE (tm), a toolkit for access, display, and manipulation of AutoCAD DWG and DXF format files. — 30 —