CAD News from Friday, 7 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Blogger Conduct - “Many bloggers are new to the whole realm of public publishing, and sometimes don’t know the rules. For instance, a CAD dealer who is also a blogger, was on the phone with me for another matter…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Appendage Jitterer..er..er - “The excessive amount of arm motion and flared eyelids was just too much to bear. So, Iwhat do you do? Detached some of the arms and installed these links instead. That’s what ya do…”
From WorldCAD Access: Vancouver Wants to Close Door on Closed Source Software - “The city of Vancouver wants to change to an Open City, declares the mayor. Vancouver, BC is Canada’s third-largest city and next February’s host of the 2010 Winter Olympics…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CAD Standard Concept - Don’t Major on the Minors - “The Standard should not get overly focused, nor spend too much time documenting things that people are not having problems with. Don’t spend too much time majoring in the minors…”
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CAD News from Thursday, 7 weeks ago
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From the Solidworks Blog: Product Data
Management (PDM) Basics III - Versioning and Revisioning - Rich Allen - “Thanks for reading and commenting on this Blog. In this installment, we will explore the concepts of versioning and revisioning or the incredible PDM Time Machine…”
From WorldCAD Access: Not Dead: Constructware - “Building Design + Construction is reporting that Autodesk is shutting down further development of Constructware…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CAD Standard Concept - Creating Creativity - “The Standard should not handcuff creativity Many times I have heard people say that ‘a standard handcuffs creativity…”
From WorldCAD Access: By Accident. Or on Purpose - “I’m updating my Using AutoCAD book for Autodesk Press…”
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CAD News from Wednesday, 7 weeks ago
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From the Eat Your CAD blog: Rendering Materials 101: material priorities - “WHAT ORDER DOES MICROSTATION PROCESS MATERIALS? A question that is raised again and again is which material setting has priority? You can apply materials to an element in many different ways (in order of priority): TriForm…”
From SolidSmack.com: Ask the Reader: eDrawings App for iPhone. Would You Use It? - “So, here we are. the iPhone market is growing like genetically modified corn and SolidWorks ships a million licenses. Seems something should be going on there…”
From the Solidworks Blog: The SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package: now available in Europe - “When we launched the Engineering Stimulus Package last month, we had a number of people ask when it would be available in Europe. So here’s the good news-it’s available now…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Announcement: FBX download and Biped enhancements - “On April 9th, we released new FBX plug-ins. I meant to get the word out sooner, but it got a little busy with our release of 3ds Max…”
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CAD News from Tuesday, 7 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: DS SolidWorks Extends Subs - “Large CAD vendors are experiencing declining revenues during this economic lull; for some of them, the bulk of revenues comes from annual subscription payments - and so the software vendors are touchy about losing subs…”
From WorldCAD Access: New Oce Monochrome Printer Does Not Print in Green - “Headline of press release received last week: New Simple, Green, Durable Oce PlotWave 300 All-In-One System Saves Money and Space It’s a monochrome printer that does not print with the green color…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Future of Design. Hunchbacks and Kneepads - “There’s hope for your carpal tunnel syndrome, worn out wrist supports and squeaky chair. In the future, they may be replaced by the joy of getting into your work… literally…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Submit your nominations to join the AUGI Board of Directors - “Now accepting nominations for the 2009/2010 AUGI Board of Directors! Do you want to make a difference in the future of AUGI? Click here to learn more about the nominations process and how to submit your nomination…”
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CAD News from Monday, 7 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Animator to be Opensourced? - “Breton Slivka of Busting at the Seams blog says he has obtained the source code of the software that eventually became Autodesk Animator Pro - a 256-color pixel animation program that was very popular in the early 1990s…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Create the Future Design Contest - “Create the Future Design Contest is an annual contest from NASA Tech Briefs and Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp. Sigh. Why is SolidWorks Corp still saddled with that crazy name that in no way represents it…”
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CAD News from Saturday, 7 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Squirrel Disco Batter - “They’re about as tall as muffin tin and sound like eight monkeys drinking whiskey in a hailstorm. But ya know waht, they gave me these links and everything was just fine…”
From WorldCAD Access: Parasailing Off a Cliff: nVidia Revenues Down 42% - “nVidia yesterday reported Q1 revenues of $664.2 million - down 42% from a year ago. The good news: Q1 revenues were up 38% from the preceding Q4. Source…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Get the AU Online Code! - “Many of you have attended Autodesk University and know the value of this fantastic training and networking event. But I know that many of you don’t get an opportunity to attend for many reasons….”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Have you Voted for AU Classes yet? Today is the deadline - “Make sure you login and vote at auonline to ensure that the classes you want to attend are the ones with the highest number of votes. Today is the deadline. Get your vote in now…”
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CAD News from Friday, 8 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: TIP: Acad 2010 Alt-Shortcuts - “A lot of Windows software has Alt-key shortcuts to access items on dropdown menus. For example, you can hold down the Alt key, and then press F and S to save a document (File menu, Save item)…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CAD Standards - Start with a Target - “Have you ever seen another firm’s standard? Have you worked for others and used their standards? You have a great starting place since you have seen and used others. You know what you liked about them and what you did not like…”
From WorldCAD Access: Yawn: Yet Another Autodesk Lawsuit - “This time its Autodesk Canada doing the suing, claiming that the user interface of Assimilate’s Scratch post-production film editing software is too similar to that of Cyborg…”
From SolidSmack.com: How to Crank Your Visibility on LinkedIn with a Little Dab o’ SEO - “Nice. Just look at that. Your LinkedIn profile looks sizzlin’ with all that professional info, a nice smiling photo of your mug and a catchy headline…”
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