CAD News from Tuesday
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From WorldCAD Access: CAD Insider: Autodesk
Takes Local User Group Off Life Support - “by Rooponder Tara, Tenlinks.com Autodesk’s headquarters are in San Rafael, CA, about 20 miles north of the Golden Gate bridge. San Rafael (pronounced san raFELL, not san RAFFYel) is in beautiful Marin County (pronounced maRIN not MARin)…”
From WorldCAD Access: ASCON plans on shipping
version 12 of KOMPAS endish-September - “Whenever I write about ASCON’s software, my fingers naturally type KOSMOS. Must be the result of growing up during the space race. ASCON today announces that it plans to ship KOSMOS KOMPAS-3D V12 in the second half of September…”
From SolidSmack.com: Paint A Rainbow On Your SolidWorks Assembly.
Multi-Colored Macro Follow-up - “A mere month ago we asked y’all how to go about slapping color across parts in SolidWorks. Unless you have a program to apply a random color to a part when you put it in an assembly, they all have the same curiously drab color…”
From WorldCAD Access: Multi-touch gestures
are just a warmup for multi-touch sentences - “It’s bad enough that Apple expect people to touch their trackpad with two fingers, because the thinking-differently company couldn’t be bothered splurging on two buttons. Three-finger swipe for this, four-fingers for that…”
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CAD News from Thursday, 3 weeks ago
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From the Eat Your CAD blog: Export RGB values from a colour table - “There are times when you may need to extract the RGB values from a Colour Table. A Colour Book is easy, you can just export to a .csv, but there is no option for this with a standard Colour Table…”
From SolidSmack.com: How To Really Create Vector
Graphics of Zombie Monkeys in SolidWorks - “I appreciate a good zombie monkey. They’re a rarity and usually make for better sport than other types of chronically drooling, undead monkeys…”
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CAD News from Wednesday, 3 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Greabert wins! First to ship
AutoCAD-compatible CAD for Mac - “Bricsys of Belgium, Graebert of Germany, and a third, unnamed CAD vendor (of another country) were in a multi-year race to see who would ship the Mac version of their AutoCAD-compatible software first. Today, Graebert won…”
From WorldCAD Access: New this week in the upFront.eZine: - “In this week’s issue of upFront.eZine: 1. CivilB Models Roadways with Surfaces 2. PTC Purposely Vague on Project Lightning Plus lots more letters from readers about the suitability of iPads and Macs…”
From WorldCAD Access: For Windows and Linux users:
how to install (ARES) Mac software - “Windows has a messy variety of ways to install software. Linux has its rigorous method. And OS X has yet another method, one that initially will seem quite foreign to Windows and Linux users…”
From WorldCAD Access: Printing wth ARES for Macintosh - “In my previous post, I mentioned that the plot dialog box in ARES for Mac is quite different from the Windows version. At first, I had no idea what was going on, but then figured it out…”
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CAD News from Tuesday, 3 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: 3
DVia Billions and 3DVia Studio. The Mafia will Die. The Farm will Burn. You will
3D Print from Facebook - “I hate Facebook games. Hate. them. Too the point I feel like butchering a hog over someone’s keyboard as they get a Crop Whisperer ribbon on Farmville. Those feelings may change…. I doubt it, but this… is cool…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Spring 2010 Edition of AUGI AEC Edge Now Available -”AUGI AEC Edge, AUGI’s newest publication dedicated to the AEC industry, has a brand new edition ready for download. This feature-packed issue delivers a long list of articles spanning nearly every discipline of the AEC industry…”
From SolidSmack.com: DoubleCAD XT Just Might Be A Free 3D
File Conversion Beast - “Sometimes when you’re weeding through your co-workers file drawers, you’ll come across a thumb-drive with all sorts of interesting files on them…”
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CAD News from Monday, 3 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: What I like about the MacBook - “After venting my fury at the MacBook’s hardware design failings, I should admit that there are things that I do like about it. Here is the complete list: 1. It is utterly silent…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: hard work
in the streetside kitchen - “This crepes restaurant is open to passers-by on the street. It has proved popular, wtih line ups forming and the harried staff hurrying…”
From WorldCAD Access: Solutions to Mac problems - “Readers are submitting solutions to the problems I found with the MacBook and its OS X software. Thank you for those…”
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CAD News from Saturday, 3 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Model Your Wicked Cool Organic Design in
T-Splines, Win an iPad - “BEEEEHOLD!!! Oh, ouch! Ok, muscles have tensed cracking most of the bones in my upper torso, but… (deep breath) No worries, because the endorphins are kicking in and some good ol’ modeling fun approacheth. T-Splines is holding a contest…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Apple hardware
and OS X software: How dreadful they are (part i) - “I recall being surprised when I “upgraded” from a 1996 Chrysler mini-van to a 2002 Honda mini-van. The Chrysler was just about bottom of the line; I had to pay extra for the cassette player and cruise control…”
From SolidSmack.com: You Will Be a Product Development DJ with
This Table - “Actually, who cares about product development at this point. You’ll be the DJ, up in the front of your office as people tear off their blazers and patent leather loafers…”
From the CADDmanager blog: The CAD Manager at Work - Decisional
Roles - “In ‘the Nature of Managerial Work’ (1980), Henry Mintzberg outline the Ten Roles of a manager. He continues to write and released ‘Managing’ in 2009. I attempt here to apply these roles to the CAD Manager…”
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CAD News from Friday, 3 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Experiencing CAD on the Mac - “Several CAD vendors are on the verge of releasing the OS X version of their software for the Macintosh line of personal computers, and I’ve been able to try out some of them on a new acquired MacBook…”
From the CADDmanager blog: The CAD Manager at Work -
Decisional Roles - “In ‘the Nature of Managerial Work’ (1980), Henry Mintzberg outline the Ten Roles of a manager. He continues to write and released ‘Managing’ in 2009. I attempt here to apply these roles to the CAD Manager…”
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