Visio Killer arises from beyond the grave Remember when Autodesk was going to shut down Visio by releasing its very own diagramming software, Actrix Technical? It felt threatened by Visio's release of IntelliCAD 98 at 1/10th the price of AutoCAD. While Visio went on to become a billion-dollar acquisition by Microsoft and IntelliCAD spawned dozens of software companies around the world, Actrix bit the dust after just two releases. Every so often, someone contacts me, saying they have AXD files and needed to access the data locked inside of them. (See figure above.) Autodesk never provided a stand-alone translator for... Read more →
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