CAD News from Friday
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From WorldCAD Access: A $2.6B Oopsie for nVidia - “nVidia’s market value dropped $2.6 billion overnight after it admitted it has a big problem with faulty GPUs used in some notebook computers - as well as weaker demand for its products and downward pressure on prices from archrival ATI….”
From WorldCAD Access: RasterDWG - “Here is the agreement whereby softelec hands over the RasterDWG trademark to Autodesk “for good and valuable consideration”: It’s not noted in this agreement, but softelec gets to continue using the RasterDWG name…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks Wallpaper: 3D Product Design Goodness for Your Desktop - “I know what you’re going through. Every time you boot your computer the Windows ‘Bliss’ background, circa 2001, burns holes right through your retinas. You desire something with a little more sna…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Drill and Tap (~Part 3) - “I previously discussed threaded hole callouts in the context of SolidWorks and its calloutformat.txt files (Part 1 and Part 2). As mentioned before, there is a tendency for some to callout threaded holes with too much information…”
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CAD News from Thursday
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From SolidSmack.com: Ask the Reader: What Version of SolidWorks Are You Using? (Oh, and Tips.) - “Right now, I currently have 3 versions of SolidWorks installed on my computer - 2007, 2008, and 2009Beta. oh, and 2005 till just recently. It’s crazy I tell ya. I use 2008 mostly right now, but have to switch back to 2007 for some model…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Duplicated contact in Outlook? Let it merge the changes - “I use the Grab feature from LinkedIn to gather contact details from emails and also manually sync some contacts between work home…”
From the COFES.com blog: My granddaughter, Ruth Cooper, is a new mom! - “If you’ve been to COFES, you’ve met Ruth. Her husband Jason called me a little while ago to say that Ruth gave birth today at 8:27 pm EDT to a healthy boy! Name, weight, etc…”
From WorldCAD Access: Dassault Unloads French Sales Team - “Dassault Systemes today exited direct sales of its PLM software in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg…”
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CAD News from Wednesday
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From WorldCAD Access: Autodesk Consolodates Mac Architecture Market - Really? - “This headline caught my eye for its strangeness: Mac architecture market consolidates …I found it on a Web site called MacNn, which runs this as its lead sentence: Autodesk has acquired the assets of Green Building Studio…”
From WorldCAD Access: Autodesk Accuses ODA of Fraud - “The latest document posted at the USPTO site looks strange: entire sentences are blacked out by Autodesk’s lawyers, because they might contain Open Design Alliance’s confidential trade secrets…”
From SolidSmack.com: Robots Designed in SolidWorks Will Send You Shoes - “I’m telling ya people, robots are taking over the world and SolidWorks is doing their part to aid in the onslaught of automated fulfillment like you wouldn’t believe…”
From SolidSmack.com: Rockin’ Cool: Picasso’s Guernica in 3D - “Lena Gieseke has taken Picasso Guernica and transformed it into a version of the painting that will leave you deeply immersed in the canvas of the Cubist master, Picasso…”
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CAD News from Tuesday
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From the Eat Your CAD blog: The CAD Manager: Born or Bred? - “An interesting question came up at the recent CAD Managers Forum which prompted me to post a question to the CAD Managers Forum: ‘Most of us have come from a design background and have moved into CAD management…”
From WorldCAD Access: PTC Adopts Slightly Poisonous Pill - “Should PTC ever be acquired, top executives will pay themselves $20 million. CEO Dick Harrison gets the biggest slice of gold-flavored pie, some $15.5 million…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Shaping tomorrow’s SW Community today - “There’s a survey underway that will help shape the coming SolidWorks online community. Part Two is now available. Since Mike Puckett’s beat me to the punch on making an article about this, I’ll link to him…”
From WorldCAD Access: Strategic Research Suspends Operations Today - “I thought was the most successful pr and marketing firm in the CAD industry, but that’s not stopping owner Rachael Taggart from taking a rest from the biz…”
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CAD News from Monday
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From Engineeringtalk: CAD files converted with ease - “DWG, DXF and DWF format conversion software package handles batch and vector files…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software tools upgrade image analysis - “Open eVision 1.0 from Euresys is a new suite of reliable, powerful and flexible software tools dedicated to image processing and analysis…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: RFID modules track global product lifecycles - “Murata’s tiny, easy to mount inductive-coupled RFID modules, using the latest ceramic materials, enable global product lifecycle tracking without RF expertise…”
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Will the ‘Big 3′ EDA Vendors soon become the ‘Big 2′ ?? from the COFES.com blog
CAD News from Sunday last week
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From RobiNZ CAD Blog: My problems with CTRL+CLICK selection in scripted web applications cured! - “Do you run NVIDIA graphics drivers and have a problem CTRL selecting multiple items in scripted web applications? This is used for multiple categories in the TypePad Compose Category pop-up and had…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Occupancy Calculations - “A time consuming task for architects is the evaluation of the project’s intended occupancy and its impact on egress from a building. It is possible to improve this process considerably with Revit by reporting data in Room schedules…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Resizable Dialogs - Resize Enable Utility - “A common complaint among Revit users is the number of dialog boxes which do not allow for resizing. All of the dialog boxes would benefit from this concept, being resizable that is…”
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CAD News from Friday last week
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From RobiNZ CAD Blog: A word cloud resume? - “I took the about page from my blog and pasted it into Wordle - http://wordle.net/ . It creates a word cloud based on the frequency of use and I must admit some of the results surprised me…”
From SolidSmack.com: Rule Your CAD with the Ultra-Secure HP BLADE Workstation - “MCAD is running like heck from the desktop. The possibilities of where CAD data is accessed from and where you are when you access it just keeps on growing I tell y…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: School of Hard Knocks - Keynotes and Linked Files - “A client email and subsequent phone call yesterday advised me that they were “butting their heads into a wall” using the Keynote Feature with the linked files…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Hole Callouts: Why is THRU sometimes THRU ALL? - “Question: On a drawing, when adding a callout to a simple through hole or thread, SolidWorks will sometimes add ‘THRU’ and other times add ‘THRU ALL’…”
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