29 March 2008
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From the Matt Writes blog: Report from Knoxville, Tennessee - “The new Knoxville (KORIV) user group is in great hands, and is one of the best first meetings I’ve been to. Jeff Bohanon, the owner of Protomet is behind this effort. Between Jeff and reseller ModernTech, we had a turn out of over 50 people…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Autodesk University 2008: Call for Papers and Presenters - “The below is courtesy of the Autodesk University area on AUGI.com AU 2008: Seeking great presenters Autodesk University would not be the year’s essential learning and networking event without excellent presentations from experts (like you)…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #66: Intelligent Views, Part 2 - “Watch this podcast to see how, in 6 minutes, you can use the capabilities of Intelligent Views and Events to create an extremely interactive 3D document. It is yet another example of the elegant power inherent with 3DVIA Compose…”
From the Engineering Education for the Non-Civil Minded blog at Autodesk: Inventor goes to Yale - “I just finished a class at Yale teaching Inventor to Architecture students. Yes, you heard me right. If this is your first time hearing about Architecture using Inventor, then let me fill you in on the why…”
From WorldCAD Access: Something New Next Month from UGS - “UGS Siemens PLM has a major announcement on April 22 - “an industry-changing breakthrough in design technology that will fundamentally change the way companies improve their product development,” they say…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Long Bushy Tails - “Dwindling squirrel population? I thought. These people want to take all my acorns and squirrel babies and leave me with these wretched links. Photoshop Express - It’s finally here, edit photos online…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Dept. of Subtle - Beam Joins RAC 2009 - “In past releases when Revit Structure touted the ability to miter steel beams and Revit Architecture couldn’t lots of Architecture users were mighty annoyed…”
From Lynn Allen’s blog at Autodesk: Clip it with AutoCAD 2009 - “My American Idol report is a little late as I managed to come down with a nasty cold yesterday and I had no oomph (no clue how to spell that) to blog…”
From WorldCAD Access: Editing QuickRef 09 - “Last week, I finished updating my The Illustrated AutoCAD 2009 Quick Reference book for Autodesk Press. And then the editors get to fix it up…”
From the COFES.com blog: Will the innovation segment of knowledge work ever follow an experience curve like other work segements? - “Over the years various segments of work have become standardized and now follow to some level a predicable experience curve…”
From the Through the Interface blog at Autodesk: Using a jig to rotate an AutoCAD entity via .NET - “An interesting request came in via a previous post followed up by a similar question came in via another post…”
From WorldCAD Access: Editing QuickRef 09 - The Squeal - “More Bill Fane-ish humour: You might need to read it a few times to get the pun…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Journal of Building Information Modeling - “The latest release of JBIM is out……”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Engineeringtalk: Simulation partnership targets higher frequencies - “EADS Innovation Works has invested heavily in multipole BEM methods and electromagnetics as well as technologies for exterior and interior acoustic applications…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software prepares for 3D printing - “ZEdit Pro lets users of 3D mechanical CAD software verify and ensure that geometric data are 3D printable…”
MORE FROM THE BLOGGERS
AutoCAD 2009 - Visualization from the CAD-a-Blog
Off on a tangent… Part 2 from The Gear Box blog at Autodesk
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