CAD News from Saturday, 120 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Churnly - “Deciphering the patterns of yellow flowers and whirring things was all but he he had known. On this day, however, he discovered, not a pattern, but power over the things which whir themselves. He discovered, these links…”
From WorldCAD Access: Bricscad
v11.3.1-1 has a tiny increment number for so many big changes - “Bricsys today posted Bricscad beta version 11.3.1 that updates v11.2.9…”
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CAD News from Friday, 120 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Direct vs Parametric: What Do the
Users Have to Say? - “Sometimes when the sun is shining and there’s a light, misty acid in that air… you run screaming, jump into a barrel with your friends and push yourselves down a hill to escape the skin melt…”
From SolidSmack.com: Learn How to Import Your Messy, Messy 3D Data: for
Free - “If you can believe it, there’s a webinar this week. I’m usually not one for webinars, as the word ‘webinar’ itself reminds me gagging on pen caps after drinking milk…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Intense Orange Sweetness of Ian McElroy’s Kickboxer
Diesel Moto - “You may have seen Ian’s Kickboxer which boasts a race-ready Turbocharged 2.5L Subaru WRX engine. I so thought that was the sweetest looking ride…”
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CAD News from Thursday, 120 weeks ago
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From Engineeringtalk: Aras to present at NATO Configuration Symposium - “Aras has announced that the company will present at the NATO Configuration Management Symposium…”
From Engineeringtalk: CGTech to demonstrate upgraded Vericut software - “CGTech will present Version 7.1 of its Vericut CNC machine simulation software on Stand 1,647 at the Midlands Design and Engineering Show at the NEC in Birmingham on 6-7 April 2011…”
From Engineeringtalk: PD sells Concepts NREC’s turbomachinery products - “Concepts NREC, a manufacturer of turbomachinery, has made PD Solutions a concepts channel partner (CCP), with the latter company providing software, support and training in Southeast Asia…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Exlar offers Ethernet-based communication protocol - “Exlar has announced the newest Ethernet-based communications protocol supported by the company’s Tritex II linear and rotary actuators - Modbus TCP/IP…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Mail Suite processes variable data print jobs - “Objectif Lune has announced the release of version 7.1 of Printshop Mail Suite, which was initially created to solve the production speed issues surrounding high-volume mail merge…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: RFID readers can be used for animal identification - “GAO RFID’s series of RFID readers can be used for animal identification and management, as well as logistics, field service, personnel tracking and event management…”
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CAD News from Wednesday, 120 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: The
Vleeschhouwer Report: Interesting bits from Adobe Systems’s 2010 10-K - “by Jay Vleeschhouwer The following are several items from the 144-page 2010 10-K report that seemed interesting or incremental. The Adobe text is in italics followed by some of my comments on the text. Creative Solutions…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Vleeschhouwer Report:
The State of SolidWorks for 2011 - “by Jay Vleeschhouwer Dassault Systemes’ SolidWorks, the company’s second-largest brand in terms of revenues, held its annual SolidWorks World conference for users, resellers, third-party developers, and other partners…”
From WorldCAD Access: I
n upFront.eZine this week: BIM is great for CAD vendors, but how about for
architects? - “In this week’s upFront.eZine, we have for you… 1. BIM is Mainstream; Are Architects Better Off? Guest Editorial by Mark Chaney 2. Understanding Hybrid Workflows between CAD and BIM Part 2: Practical Applications 3…”
From SolidSmack.com: 3D Printing, Your Days Are
Numbered. Lexus Uses 3D Loom to Weave the LFA - “You’ve tried to warn your children, your pets, your boss’ thumb that pops up over the cubicle wall and whispers movie quotes to you in a raspy voice. Screaming doesn’t help. Nevertheless, it’s happening…”
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CAD News from Tuesday, 146 weeks ago
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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, 148 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, 148 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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