CAD News from Tuesday
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From WorldCAD Access: V-E-R-Y Angry Over SolidWorks Subscriptions - “A rousing discussion of angry users over at Matt Writes and most other independent SolidWorks blogs on the subject of DS SolidWorks charging hundreds of dollars for skipping a year of subscription/maintenance services…”
From SolidSmack.com: Serving Up Hot and Spicy SolidWorks Subscription Service - “Update: As of noon on Thursday August 28th, SolidWorks has rescinded the penalties that were soon to take affect. You can read the email that went out to the resellers and customer here. Good move on the PR sid…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Squeeze a Bit - “As a matter of fact, if you do tighten it like that the bleeding will stop, but the centrifugal force will make the cookies taste a bit salty. To remedy, just add a dab of these link…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Is it a Bolt or a Screw? (Nut jobs welcome) - “The term bolt in plain English has many definitions as applied to the Engineering Principle. It can be the movable rod that slides into a socket to fasten a door. It is the portion of a lock that moves from and back to the case…”
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CAD News from Tuesday last week
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From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Cracker Pants - “Well yeah, of course they look hot. But ya know, if you go wearing them into a public place, babies will cry, women will scream and everyone else will run smack dab into the links. Design Trendz - It’s what all the websites are doin…”
From WorldCAD Access: IMSI Cuts Price of Renditioner Express to Free - “Renditioner is a rendering plug-in for SketchUp. Now there is a free version from IMSI/Design, albeit limited to images of 640×480. There’s also an Express version (1024×768) and the $200 full version (4096×4096 and multi-threaded)…”
From SolidSmack.com: Explode Diagrams. The Next Cool Thing In 3D CAD - “You all are gonna flip, or rather, explode, when you see this. I’ve been looking for 3D CAD news out of Siggraph08 that happened last week, but have not found much beyond some announcements about rendering model…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Design the Top DAUG t-shirt for Autodesk University 2008, and win a FREE! pass to Autodesk University 2009 - “Image: Last year’s winning design, by Robert Geiger. AUGI is pleased to announce the ‘Second Annual Top DAUG T-Shirt Design competition’. Last year’s Top DAUG T-shirt competition was a great success. We had almost 70 submissions…”
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CAD News from Wednesday, 2 weeks ago
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From the Alibre CEO blog: Is Frugality Fashionable? - “Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Major economic headwinds continue to hammer individuals and businesses, making them increasingly value-focused…”
From WorldCAD Access: ADSK Q2: Up 18% - “Autodesk reports Q2 revenues of $620 million, up 18% over a year ago. The company expects FY09 revenues of $2.50-2.53 billion. Will Future Earnings Dim? Like most other CAD vendors, Autodesk has benefited from the relatively low US dollar…”
From SolidSmack.com: Craving 3D Multi-Touch Holograms? This May Help - “I see you wavin’ your hands around like your folding laundry, but that imagery floating around you is just all kinds of freaky… OHhhh, those are holograms and your moving them around with your knuckles and those sensors in your hand…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: It Stings A Bit - “Yes, it’s all about proportion. You gotta have just the right amount of slap and the right amount of sizzle. Too much of one or the other and suddenly there are parasite infestations and mandatory curfews. These links are good example…”
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CAD News from Sunday, 3 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Craving 3D Multi-Touch Holograms? This May Help - “I see you wavin’ your hands around like your folding laundry, but that imagery floating around you is just all kinds of freaky… OHhhh, those are holograms and your moving them around with your knuckles and those sensors in your hand…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks 2009 Unleashed. New Features, Killer Performance - “I’ll tell you right now, get ready to break into song if you are a SolidWorks user. In a few months, you are going to wake up, putter off to work and see that familiar splash screen pop up when you start SolidWork…”
From WorldCAD Access: SpaceClaim Hearts BunkSpeed - “SpaceClaim next week will announce a link-up with BunkSpeed’s rendering engine. You’ll click a button in SpaceClaim, which transfers the 3D design into HyperShot, which quickly generates a photorealistic image…”
From SolidSmack.com: Design My Idea: Your Invention Designed in SolidWorks - “I imagine if you’re a regular reader of this colorfully pleasant blog you are perfectly capable of modeling a design idea up in SolidWorks. If you’re not, this site will help you realize your creative geniu…”
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CAD News from Saturday, 4 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Spider Magnets - “It actually happened right after I turned it on. They spilled out like beans on a metal floor, attacked my metacarpals, and ate my biscuits. If it wasn’t for your quick thinking and these links, we would all be goners for sur…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Autodesk Open Doors - Free Training at an ATC (But Not in Georgia) - “Want some free training in Autodesk products? You can always go to AUGI.com and participate in one of their ATP programs or download Autodesk University handouts. You can also take advantage of the…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #75: ‘Really fast ballooning’ - “This week, Tod continues to build out his technical illustration that he started last week. He covers several options for ballooning the illustration, and then outputs the view to line art forma…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Resize - Repeat Scale - “You can always learn from students. While discussing the Resize tool a student asked if they could do “something”, in other words..would “xxx” work…or do what she expects…”
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CAD News from Friday, 5 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: More 3D CAD News Than You Can Shake A StickMan At - “I know you all get excited when you have the chance to read about CAD news and the excitement happening around our tiny globe. This week has been chock full of interesting tid-bits of inf…”
From SolidSmack.com: 50+ SolidWorks and 3D CAD Users to Follow on Twitter *Updated* - “Twitter = accessibility. It has opened up clogged lines of communication and expanded personal and community networks around the world and it just keeps getting bigger, I tell y…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: VBA Error Code 800a0011 - Quick Fix - “I ran into Error Code 800a0011 this morning when adding a list box control to a form in VBA. No matter what control I added, it gave this error: could not complete the operation due to error…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: The Five Embarrassing Songs meme - “Jack Yan posted this meme and it gives me a chance to share a great line I heard tonight from Kiwi rocker, now Radio Live host, Andrew Fagan…”
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CAD News from Thursday, 5 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Why Your SolidWorks Models Suck… Memory Out of Your Computer - “‘Stop. You’re killin’ me. My models are immaculate. It’s the software that’s the problem.’ A lot of people get riled up about bad performance and poor stability, blaming it on the SolidWorks softwar…”
From WorldCAD Access: PTC Beats Dassault for EADS Contract - “EADS makes AirBus, and AirBus is designed by Dassault’s software, and now EADS has picked PTC’s Windchill collaboration software to link engineers, manufacturers…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Resize - Repeat Scale - “You can always learn from students. While discussing the Resize tool a student asked if they could do “something”, in other words..would “xxx” work…or do what she expects…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: The court says no to The Warehouse takeover bid - “Today the Court of Appeal upheld the original Commerce Commission decision to block Woolworths Foodstuffs takeover bid…”
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