McPherson is home to more than 50 companies spanning at least a dozen industries, making this city of 14,000 one of the nation's most industrialized communities. Search the McPherson Chamber of Commerce directory of industrial, retail, service, education and healthcare employers.
Featured employers:
Best Mac for interface design. The best Mac for interface design is again the 27in iMac. Interface design can of course encompass web design, but with this option we're thinking more in terms of apps. Question: Q: Mac for an industrial design student I've been wondering which software should I choose mac ios or windows as an industrial designer. Also is the Macbook Pro 13 2019 base model powerful enough for 3d modeling, rendering? The Industrial Design Studio is located on the ground floor of Infinite Loop II at Apple's HQ in Cupertino. On February 9, 2001, after the hubbub of Macworld died down, Apple's Industrial.
Viega
www.viega.com
(620) 241-6369
Viega is a family owned global company headquartered in Attendorn, Germany. Veiga manufactures, distributes and markets highly engineered and innovative plumbing systems for residenteial, commercial and industrial markets. Viega operates a new 439,000 square foot manufacturing facility and North America distribution center in McPherson. The McPherson plant currently has 300 employees.
Farmers Alliance
www.fami.com
(620) 241-2570
Industrial Design Wikipedia
Kansas' largest domestic property and casualty insurer, Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Company is located in McPherson, Kansas. Since 1888, Farmers Alliance has been providing insurance coverage to Kansans, and currently to policyholders in eight addition states. It is the oldest major employer in the area, and its insurance professionals furnish outstanding and continuous leadership for city and county projects and development.
Wise & Reber, L.C.
www.bwisecounsel.com
(620) 241-0554
Wise & Reber, L.C., is a full-service commercial and civil law firm that has served McPherson since 1886. The firm has 7 members combining the best aspects of the traditional small-town general practice of law with sophisticated legal skills.
Continued from page 1
Bob: We strongly believe there is a trend going on that is very favorable to Apple. We see a stronger positioning of the Mac within the product development and industrial design community.
AFR: Are there specific sectors or industries you see this more?
Alex: We see it at the top, at the top level of industrial design institutions where there is a very strong propensity toward Apple and the Mac. We have been doing a lot of visiting of top design schools and universities and you can see it…students in colleges are very much aligned with Mac, they identify with the brand and its emphasis on innovation and design.
Bob: We get into a lot of mixed environments where Macs are about one third of the mix. These tend to be areas like furniture design, packaging, jewelry design and electronics. In these environments the Mac is already strong among many professionals, so seeing solidThinking on the Mac is a selling point for the product. It gives product and industrial designers a chance to do their main work on the platform they prefer.
Furniture design app mac. AFR: So you would say that supporting the Mac, in addition to Windows gives solidThinking a competitive advantage?
Mac Industrial Services Inc
Bob: Yes. It is key to understand that this is one demographic where Apple is seen very strongly. Apple is an remarkably innovative company…and so industrial designers hold that company in extremely high regard.
AFR: The location and proximity to Detroit…How does that factor into solidThinking's success in the United States?
Bob: Detroit has no real importance to solidThinking's success in the US market. It is more a historical thing, it happens to be near where Altair's headquarters are. The location of solidThinking software engineers are now in two places: Troy, Michigan and Vicenza, Italy. Going forward the location of future software engineers will likely reflect the marketplace for solidThinking globally.
AFR: My feeling is that when one thinks of industrial design software in the US one thinks of products like SolidWorks and AliasStudio…and in regards to the Mac Ashlar Vellum's Cobalt. What will you guys do to help spread the word about solidThinking in the United States?
Bob: Firstly, we are talking to publications like yours in the US so we can tell our story. Secondly, we are going around the US and meeting with the top industrial design schools where we are finding good reception by students and professors. In the colleges students are very interested in Apple and its products and see the company as the design leader or trend setter, so they get excited about our product because it works on their favorite computer, the Mac.
AFR: But who would you say are your competitors?
Alex: Without naming names our competitors are all those products which are using NURBS for modeling. Often today we find users still using tools that are best suited for doing animation or general 3D tools…and of course 2D tools. solidThinking was created specifically for the industrial designer.
AFR: You guys seem to have a good relationship with SolidWorks. Can you talk about that? Is that a strategic alliance of some sort?
Bob: No, we do not have an alliance but we are part of the SolidWorks Solutions Partners program. This is a company we admire, who has a culture similar to our own in respect to innovation and serving the customer and we have a lot of respect for them.
What we find is that our top resellers and partners are also SolidWorks folks serving a lot of the same customers.
Alex: We do not compete with the CAD vendors, we cooperate with them through file exchange formats and the sharing of data. solidThinking is a perfect solution for product designers who need to create effectively and work with product engineers as part of the product development process.
AFR: Let's switch to Macworld. Why Macworld and what are your expectations for the show?
Wise & Reber, L.C.
www.bwisecounsel.com
(620) 241-0554
Wise & Reber, L.C., is a full-service commercial and civil law firm that has served McPherson since 1886. The firm has 7 members combining the best aspects of the traditional small-town general practice of law with sophisticated legal skills.
Continued from page 1
Bob: We strongly believe there is a trend going on that is very favorable to Apple. We see a stronger positioning of the Mac within the product development and industrial design community.
AFR: Are there specific sectors or industries you see this more?
Alex: We see it at the top, at the top level of industrial design institutions where there is a very strong propensity toward Apple and the Mac. We have been doing a lot of visiting of top design schools and universities and you can see it…students in colleges are very much aligned with Mac, they identify with the brand and its emphasis on innovation and design.
Bob: We get into a lot of mixed environments where Macs are about one third of the mix. These tend to be areas like furniture design, packaging, jewelry design and electronics. In these environments the Mac is already strong among many professionals, so seeing solidThinking on the Mac is a selling point for the product. It gives product and industrial designers a chance to do their main work on the platform they prefer.
Furniture design app mac. AFR: So you would say that supporting the Mac, in addition to Windows gives solidThinking a competitive advantage?
Mac Industrial Services Inc
Bob: Yes. It is key to understand that this is one demographic where Apple is seen very strongly. Apple is an remarkably innovative company…and so industrial designers hold that company in extremely high regard.
AFR: The location and proximity to Detroit…How does that factor into solidThinking's success in the United States?
Bob: Detroit has no real importance to solidThinking's success in the US market. It is more a historical thing, it happens to be near where Altair's headquarters are. The location of solidThinking software engineers are now in two places: Troy, Michigan and Vicenza, Italy. Going forward the location of future software engineers will likely reflect the marketplace for solidThinking globally.
AFR: My feeling is that when one thinks of industrial design software in the US one thinks of products like SolidWorks and AliasStudio…and in regards to the Mac Ashlar Vellum's Cobalt. What will you guys do to help spread the word about solidThinking in the United States?
Bob: Firstly, we are talking to publications like yours in the US so we can tell our story. Secondly, we are going around the US and meeting with the top industrial design schools where we are finding good reception by students and professors. In the colleges students are very interested in Apple and its products and see the company as the design leader or trend setter, so they get excited about our product because it works on their favorite computer, the Mac.
AFR: But who would you say are your competitors?
Alex: Without naming names our competitors are all those products which are using NURBS for modeling. Often today we find users still using tools that are best suited for doing animation or general 3D tools…and of course 2D tools. solidThinking was created specifically for the industrial designer.
AFR: You guys seem to have a good relationship with SolidWorks. Can you talk about that? Is that a strategic alliance of some sort?
Bob: No, we do not have an alliance but we are part of the SolidWorks Solutions Partners program. This is a company we admire, who has a culture similar to our own in respect to innovation and serving the customer and we have a lot of respect for them.
What we find is that our top resellers and partners are also SolidWorks folks serving a lot of the same customers.
Alex: We do not compete with the CAD vendors, we cooperate with them through file exchange formats and the sharing of data. solidThinking is a perfect solution for product designers who need to create effectively and work with product engineers as part of the product development process.
AFR: Let's switch to Macworld. Why Macworld and what are your expectations for the show?
Bob: Macworld is the largest show for reaching Mac users and it is also a designers show. We are very excited to show the Mac community solidThinking. We also plan to reach out to the product design and academic community in the Bay area during that time.
AFR: Speaking of community, what are some of the things solidThinking is doing to address community building on the Internet specifically. For example, Google has its own channel on YouTube with SketchUp movies for instruction. How to play midi keyboard on mac.
Alex: We are always paying attention to our user community and they are big part of us and how we think and move the product forward. We believe movies are very useful and believe this is an important part of product education. We have a product channel on YouTube as well with movies of solidThinking in action.
How to make a video on the mac. AFR: Alex and Bob, thanks for speaking with Architosh about solidThinking and I wish you the best for your first Macworld Expo coming up next month. Will see you there. Thanks.
Bob and Alex: Thank you.