7 June 2008

Chris Rand, Editor

TOP BLOG POSTS

From the 3D CAD blog: Which is faster? Windows XP or Vista? - “There is an interesting benchmark published on the ZDNet Blog (track). It compares the performance of Windows XP and Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) and their Service Packs using the PassMark benchmark. The results are quite surprising…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: New Game, New Rules: Now It’s Personal - “For quite a while we’ve been noticing an increasing trend within the CAD market: the growing number of people who are using 3D CAD for personal business or side projects in addition to the work they do for their employer….”
From the 3D CAD blog: Ribbon for Inventor 2009 - “Autodesk has started a new discussion group which will probably cover an optional user interface module for Inventor. It seems that Autodesk will go a cautious way to push the ribbon interface to us users…”
From the 3D CAD blog: Free Inventor 3D parts - “I have found a good source of Inventor parts and 3D DWG models I can use in my designs. The CAD Forum site in Czechoslovakia has a new section ‘Block Libraries’ with over 2.000 blocks for download…”

From the 3D CAD blog: Vista 64 SP1 and Inventor 2008 SP2 - “If you are brave enough to use Inventor 2008 on the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, do not let Windows Update install the Service Pack 1 for Vista. These two do not like each other apparently…”
From Chuck’s Blog: Birthday Boys - “I have been trading emails today with SolidWorks, Inc. Public Relations Specialists Nancy Buchino who is my new best friend at Concord headquarters. Nancy pointed out that my birthday (which is today) coincides with other “famous” people…”
From WorldCAD Access: BW Interviews CB - “Today’s Business Week web page has an interview with Autodesk CEO Carl Bass. Nothing exciting to learn from Matt Vella’s interview for those of us experienced with CAD - other than Autodesk software designs the Mercedes Benz S-Class car…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: The Evolution of 3D CAD and the ‘Dassault Volume Channel’ - “The guard is changing. The future of 3D CAD is no longer the purview of a small number of CAD vendors who can tightly control access to 3D CAD technology. Take SolidWorks, for instance…”
From WorldCAD Access: Why the Ribbon is Wrong - “Various testimonials indicate a dislike for Microsoft’s ribbon interface, which appears in SolidWorks, SpaceClaim, and AutoCAD. From my attempts at using it, I think the primary problem with the ribbon is that it creates confusion…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: Democratization - “I have been going on for a while about a broad trend I see that is occurring simultaneously with Globalization, but while this trend is occurring concurrently with Globalization…”
From WorldCAD Access: 15% Fewer Journalists at BE 2009? - “Bentley Systems this week flew in 50-70 journalists (the estimates vary) to Baltimore for the annual BE user conference to hear CEO Greg Bentley’s wish that his company reduce its so-called “carbon footprint” by 15% next year…”
From the 3D CAD blog: Keep your Inventor up to date - “Most of us probably keep our CAD software and Windows OS updated using the online services provided by the respective vendors (Microsoft Update, Autodesk Communication Center)…”
From SolidSmack.com: SportCopter GyroPlane Designed in SolidWorks, No Turret Guns - “Out of the 50 or so things I fear the most, one of the top is, not flying or crashing in a plane, but being hit head-on by a plane, and even more, by a GyroPlane. The one you see here just happens to be designed in SolidWork…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: Dance Sucka! - “Anyone who has used a software application of most any type has dealt with licensing the application, and I am sure we would all agree that some vendors do it really well…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: Saving 100 petajoules of energy and 14 million metric tons of CO2 - “If you haven’t heard, Alibre has identified a new CAD market, a market we’re calling Personal CAD. I wrote about it last month in our newsletter and also blogged about it…”
From the 3D CAD blog: Three-quarter million of Inventor users - “The WorldCAD Access site has published the numbers of the installed base of Autodesk products. The most sold CAD software is clearly AutoCAD LT, with 3.680.000 licenses…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: “I don’t think it’s a small 3D modeller…” - “Words have a way of coming back to haunt us sometimes. The title of this post is from an interview by Martyn Day of MCAD Online in the UK with Buzz Kross from Autodesk…”
From WorldCAD Access: Constraint System for AutoCAD - “IMSI/Design is shipping the first variational sketching plug-in for AutoCAD 2007/8. IDX Variable Constraint System (US$499) lets you apply geometric and dimensional constraints to control relationships between objects…”
From WorldCAD Access: Speculation: Autodesk to Buy Bentley Systems? - “The non-appearance of Autodesk CEO Carl Bass at this week’s annual luvfest Bentley Systems puts on for its user base is leading to speculation that the west coast company is preparing to gobble up the east coast one…”
From WorldCAD Access: 3D Reviewer from Adobe - “Adobe today announces Acrobat 9.0 Pro Extended ($699)- the new name for Acrobat 3D, and due to ship in June. Most intriguing is the newly added 3D Reviewer software. It is typical of today’s 3D CAD viewing software…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Amazin’ Bean - “That’s what I called it, and nobody dared challenged me. Being covered in oil, cayenne pepper and these links probably helped. 40 Professional Free Icon Sets - The best darn icon sets I’ve seen the last couple day…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Sawdust Eye - “Man! this is just stingin’ like crazy! I’d think I’d rather fall on top of a bowl of boiling gravy and incredible links. Compfight - The best, and I mean, THE BEST, Flickr search tool. good options and fast as mil…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Amazing Art of CAD and CNC - “I’m loving what Steven Kempton, from the Ponoko Blog, and his new band of writers (David, Duann, Roy, and Indigo) are putting out. They look at all the different aspects that surround manufacturing, art and desig…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Ultimate Desktop Engineer’s Chair - “Before you run out to get one of those rubber balls to sit on, take a look at this concept fro Jian Guan that will have your deep-vein thrombosis taking a long clot-free vacation to the island of comfy-chair blis…”
From Chuck’s Blog: Full Circle - Part III (Final) - “When I left you in Part II I said there were 18 versions of Windows. Add three more to the list. On October 1992 Microsoft introduced Windows 3.1 Workgroups. Until then Novell, Inc. owned the networking market…”
From the 3D CAD blog: Inventor 2009 announced - “At the Word Press Days last week, Autodesk has announced new family of CAD applications named ‘2009′, including the new Inventor 2009. First - what is not new…”
From WorldCAD Access: # of Ways to Quit AutoCAD - “After Visa balloned the number of ways to shut down the operating system, I wondered how many ways there were to end AutoCAD - especially after seeing the new Exit AutoCAD button in the new menu browser. 1…”
From WorldCAD Access: Acrobat.com - “Adobe today redirects its acrobat.com URL away from adobe.com/acrobat to www.acrobat.com - it’s a new portal to its online offerings: word processor, whiteboard, conferencing, file sharing and 5GB storage…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: “Make sure prospect knows Alibre is not good enough:” - “FUD according to Wikipedia: FUD was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp.: “FUD is the fear, uncertainty…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Self-Propelled SolidWorks Marketing Cart, I mean, Da Vinci Cart - “If you’re into mechanisms like Theo Jansen’s Creatures, the retro-futuristic Steampunk contraptions or just like to see how things work, you may be interested in the latest SolidWorks genius campaig…”
From WorldCAD Access: TIP: Open “Any” File with Acrobat Pro Ext 9 - “In working with the beta of Adobe’s updated Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (nee Acobat 3D) I found that it can import many kinds of supported files - even though it doesn’t look like it can. Here’s how: 1…”
From WorldCAD Access: ADSK Q1: Up 18% - “Autodesk reports Q1 revenues of $599 million, up 18% from a year ago - nearly half of the increase is thanks to the weak US$. Revenue Projections Q2 - $600 - 610 million. Q3 - $605 - 620 million…”
From SolidSmack.com: Mark It. SolidWorks 2009 Beta Rumored for June 9th - “Ok, all you crazy SolidWorks people that want to get your hands on the next version of software. Mark next Monday, June 9th, 2008 Noon EST. That programmer guy in the corner’s at SolidWorks Cor…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Steve interviews the man behind the AutoCAD Ribbon - “The AutoCAD Ribbon, like others, seems to evoke only strong reactions. You either love or hate the major component in the biggest AutoCAD interface overhaul since the shift from DOS to Windows…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Technical illustration, demonstration and art with Silverlight - “Michael Scherotter created the impressive illustration, and functional demo, below with Microsofts Silverlight Epression tools. His post details the creation process, how its hosted and shared…”
From WorldCAD Access: Yares Fingers Geolus - “What is the magic pixie dust that makes Synchronous Technology work in NX and Solid Edge? Evan Yares thinks it might be Geolus, the 3D part search technology also owned by Siemens PLM Software…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: When I say the CAM software market is boring I’m not referring to a machining process: - “This is an industry in defensive mode, fearful of doing anything that might jeopardize their already weak hold on shrinking pieces of the pie…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Multi-touch experiments in the Autodesk Lab - “Would you like to see mudbox driven by multi-touch technology? Well an example now exists and its pretty cool. There is a group called Autodesk Labs within Autodesk that tests out and plays with ideas coming from all parts of the company…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: AU on an Ipod - “Did you know that you can subscribe to Autodesk University 2007 audio podcasts at the iTunes store? These podcasts can then be synchronized and listened to on any iPod at convenient times. (I can hear you now, and YES, I do have a life…”
From the CADDmanager blog: BuildingSMART BIM Presentations - “With the completion of the National BIM Conference on May 20-22, 2008 in Anaheim, California, they have posted some of the presentations that were given. They are still posting some of them, so you may want to check back every so often…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Revit MEP - Family Connector - Arrow Direction - “When you create a Revit MEP family that requires a connector (most will) you need to pay attention to the direction of the arrow that appears on the connector. In the following image the arrow points down, out of a water closet fitting…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Separate Checks Please - Off Topic “ish” - “As a consultant I travel a bit. I have 150,000 miles on one airline alone…so perhaps more than a bit. I eat in a fair number of restaurants because I have to. I know, poor Steve…he HAS to eat in a restaurant all the time, poor baby…”
From SolidSmack.com: Super Hot Falen Concept Car Designed in SolidWorks - “We’ve seen some really sweet cars partially designed in SolidWorks, but the new Falen concept from Dowdeswell and Hardie has the unique pleasure of being designed completely in SolidWork…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: New 3ds Max user group in Boston - “A friend of mine at Neoscape, Nils Norgren, is putting together a new 3DS Max user group in Boston. If you have enjoyed all the tutorials Neoscape has done for the AREA and live in the Boston AREA I highly recommend you check this out…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing - “Ryan Foss was a guy with some ideas. He happened to share those ideas with some folks at Right Hemisphere, and now alleges that his ideas were actually stolen by them. He blogged about this on April 30, and you can read his story her…”
From the CADDmanager blog: News from the BE Conference - “What’s Left for 2008: Bentley Reveals All (Almost) By Rita Stange, ConnectPress Senior Editor In this morning’s welcome ceremony Bentley Chief Marketing Officer Edward Mueller announced that this year’s BE Conference here in Baltimor…”
From Chuck’s Blog: On the Road from SolidWorks WORLD 2008 - “I had to go San Diego to see the future of engineering. SolidWorks (SW) co-founder Jon Hirschtick invited me to join his company’s blog site and I was honored to accept his invitation…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Autodesk Loses Court Battle - “Autodesk loses court battle - for now… Federal Judge Upholds Right of Vendor to Sue Against Anti-Consumer Copyright Claim eBay Vendor Claims Right to Resell Used Copies of Products from Software Company AutoCAD 14 sold on ebay…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: The CIO who can’t write an Excel macro… - “CIO NZ have a interview with Warehouse CIO Owen McCall. In his time the IS systems have grown to cope with a growing General Merchandise business and the new Extra Supermarket offer…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: Free SolidWorks Certification - Offer Extended! - “The special promotional offer for certification that SolidWorks was running has been extended thru June 31, 2008. This offer lets subscription service customers redeem 1 free exam (CSWA or CSWP - a $99 value!) using a coupon code…”
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 Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: My Autodesk University 2007 Thoughts - “My primary thought regarding last week’s Autodesk University was how relatively smooth things appeared to have run. Place about 10,000 people anywhere and there is likely to be some mayhem. Not so, from my perspective, last week…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: The Fastest 3D CAD System in the World:Hasta la Vista Baby! - “Ralph Grabowski recently wrote about the impact of Microsoft’s Vista release on 3D CAD applications using OpenGL versus Direct X…”
From the CADDmanager blog: AUGI CAD Camp - Los Angeles - “I attended the AUGI CAD Camp today. It was located near LAX airport. It was a great event. AUGI provided a wide range of educational presentations. Matt Murphy was the master of ceremonies, as he does so well at so many events…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Revit 2009 Versions Released - “As of 3pm today Autodesk officially released and announced that the new versions were available for download. Some were able to download it a bit earlier than intended by “reverse engineering” the web address for 2008 versions…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Revit MEP Air Terminal - Troubleshooting - “I received an email from client asking for a little assistance with an air terminal family. Apparently the diagonal line they wanted to indicate that the terminal is a “return” wouldn’t play along when the family changed size…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Sony’s HD Foam - “Sony are at it again! After Balls, Paint and Play-Doh Rabbits its Foam ! 470 Million Litres of foam, shot in the streets of Miami! From http://www.sony.co.uk/images via Sony NZ…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Civil 3D, AU Online, and my Goals - “As a somewhat new Autodesk employee, my attendance of Autodesk University 2007 was a very different experience for me. I was not able attend as many classes as I thought that I would, but being there was ENTIRELY worthwhile…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: Improve System Performance - Tweak Your Pagefile - “This is not any new ground-breaking information, but when it was mentioned last week in the CAD Manager session at the SWUGN Summit in Nashville, there was quite a stir in the room and several follow-on questions about it…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Microstation Tips and Tricks - “Here is a great place to go and get some of the Tips and Tricks you may need in Microstation… It is the Microstation Connections web site. There is a lot here for the Ustn user. A free membership sign up may be required…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: 2008 SWUGN Summit - Nashville, TN - “Well, the 2008 SolidWorks User Group Network (SWUGN) Summit has come and gone. There was a great turnout again this year, although we didn’t have quite as many attendees as we did last year at our record-breaking meeting…”
From Chuck’s Blog: Free Software - Part 1 (of 2) - “Subtitle: ‘Buyer’ Beware This topic has been on my brain for several months. I am ready to expound. Who works for free? Actually a lot of people. Well meaning volunteers…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Insert from File - “This feature is intended to allow us to acquire information from another project file and add it to our current project. There are two methods, Views and 2D Elements. Both methods involve selecting a project file first…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Proposal - Camera View Annotation - “When a Camera view is created there is no built-in intentional way to show our readers where the camera is located. With Revit (and 3D design in general) more and more camera views are used to explain/document our work…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: 2008 Annual AUGI Salary Survey needs *your* (anonymous) input! - “Below information kindly supplied by Melanie Perry (AUGI Salary Survey Manager). Every year AUGI polls its membership (participation is anonymous), and reports how much money people in your! field are actually earning…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: An Aussie Tablet PC Blog! - “Its good to see some, reasonably, local Tablet PC resources. Tablet PC Blog - blog.tabletpc.com.au Australian Tablet PC information resource via www.gottabemobile.com/…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Evolution or Revolution? - “This blog post got me thinking about the way that technical illustrations have evolved over the past few years, from the days of airbrushing and photography to a new digital era of creating illustrations on a compute…”
From the 3D CAD blog: Mechanical Desktop being phased out? - “It seems that the old Autodesk mechanical modeller based on AutoCAD - Mechanical Desktop - is being slowly phased out…”
From the CADDmanager blog: AUGI CAD Camp - Salt Lake City - “I just returned from presenting three classes at the Salt Lake City CAD Camp. It was a well attended event in downtown SLC. Matt Murphy ‘Revealed’ several classes. David Cohn presented on Annotation Scaling for Text…”
From the CAD Insider blog: DP Technology ‘Discovered’ - “May 12, 2008, DENVER, CO (ESPRIT World Conference 2008) Walking into ESPRIT’s user conference, I feel like Christopher Columbus, having discovered a new land -never mind all the natives who seem to have preceded me…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Mozilla releases Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 - “Earlier today (2008-06-05) Mozilla released Firefox 3 RC2, if all goes well this should be the last release candidate before Mozilla launches the finished product later this month (exact date still to be announced)…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Dual Link DVI blues - “OK, you’ve got yourself a hot new 30′ monitor to go with your screamin’ Quadro card, but you’re only getting 1280 x 800 graphics? Problem: ONLY ONE of the DVI connectors on the back actually supplies Dual Link DVI…”
From Chuck’s Blog: Full Circle - Part I - “In the mid ’60s as a graduate student at Stanford I ran all my computer programs on ‘big iron’ (IBM main frame computers). I spent hours and hours punching up cards…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: SolidWorks and Design Simulation - “Back on April 25, Dana Parrish, COSMOS Territory Technical Manager for SolidWorks, was in town to give a COSMOSWorks presentation to the Redstone Arsenal branch of the North Alabama SolidWorks User Group (NASWUG)…”
From Chuck’s Blog: Free Software - Part 2 (of 2) - “Subtitle: The gray and dark sources. Gray sources? They are people who want to tease you with a free version but want to tempt you to purchase a paid full version…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Architechure - A blog by Phil Read (yes that Phil Read) - “A long time ago, OK so it was sometime in 2001, a guy called Phil Read came to our office with this software he reckoned was the best thing ever for AEC design…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: The hackers answer to high end stereo graphics: Cellophane - “In case you hadn’t noticed I’ve recently been leaning towards useful ways to hack our world. It started with making your own cintiq followed by making a touch screen out of a Wii and hacking your canon camera…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #62: Custom Rendering - “This week, Christophe Delfino demonstrates a new capability that was released with 3DVIA Composer V6R1. If you have ever wanted the ability to control the rendering mode on a per-part basis, we were listenin…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Greener Than Thou - “May 28. 2008, BALTIMORE, MD (BE Conference) - Bentley is convincing everyone at their annual user meeting that it has gone green. Examples abound. Their corporate logo has been redone in green, for one thing…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Release your Canon Cameras Inner Strength - “Do you have a consumer Canon camera? If so did you know that you may have in your very hands a far more powerful piece of hardware than you ever realized. All you need is the right tools to unlock the power…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Autodesk University call for Submissions - “Are you the teacher type? If you know 3ds Max or Maya backwards and forwards and have an idea for a live class that the design and visualization community would be interested in then here is your chance…”
From WorldCAD Access: Dassault Mimics Autodesk Student Portal - “Dassault this week launched a Web site for education called DS Campus. The purpose is to promote its line of software to educators, students, and employees…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Help Select Autodesk University 2008 Classes!! - “When I first read the following I thought this is awesome. What better way for Autodesk University attendees to benefit from AU than for them to have a hand in selecting the classes that will be presented…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #61: New 3DVIA Composer brochure - “This week I bring to you a special Monday podcast: our brand new 3DVIA Composer brochure. This version has been optimized for electronic distribution. High-resolution printed copies will be available soo…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Revit Technology Conference 2008 - Revit User Group Sydney - “The Revit Technology Conference is happening in Sydney, late June. I attended the NZ event last year it was a great Revit focused Mini Autodesk University…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Autodesk Seek Web Service is Live - “I stumbled across the Autodesk Seek web service as I was investigating the changes to Revit 2009 user interface. When I saw the ubiquitous search tool that had appeared on the options bar, I clicked…”
From SolidSmack.com: From PDF to Solid: More Fun Using Images to Create SolidWorks Layouts - “Sometimes, flipping back and forth between a PDF or AutoCAD drawing is enough to make you start humming loudly and spinning in tight circles. That’s ok….”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Kind of interesting… - “Google Trends search for Pro/E, SolidWorks Notice the regions showing the most interest? Is SolidWorks the tool for the emerging economies? India is, of course, high for PTC because of operations there…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Revit 2009 Interface Changes - Open - “Autodesk Revit 2009 changes the equation from the start… Accessing the “Open” dialog reflects some changes in the interface beyond the “landing page” look of the drawing window on first launch. As…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: ACA2009 - Check your OSNAPZ variable - “You might think that because ACA2009 locks your elevation when drawing walls that your wall cleanup issues are gone…unfortunately you’d be wrong. You may still benefit from the use of my vba tool…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Photoshop Tips and Tricks Book - Free Download - “Kudos to the folks at Sitepoint for offering up their Photoshop Anthology in full pdf format and for free to boot. The books from sitepoint are usually a very good purchase and enable the reader to…”
From WorldCAD Access: Wow! - “The urgent phone call came at 8:30am Saturday morning. Katrina’s coach was very concerned that we attend the Figure Skating Awards Banquet that evening…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Be Aware - Amazon Context Links Could be Dangerous - Video - “As I alluded to in my comments on last weeks “Sneak” Preview post, watch out how you configure Amazon’s Contextual Links widget on your website or blog. I added contextual links long ago and found…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Love the new Revit 2009 “Review Warnings Export” button - “Now, built into Revit 2009 is the ability to export an html report of the warnings generated by Revit. As seen in this image below. I clicked the export option when this warning was displayed when…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Playing with your Wii - crazy innovative uses for the Wii - “Ever wished you could have your own interactive mulit touch digital whiteboard or how about a interactive 3d display. Well let Johnny Lee show you how to do just that with a Wii and a few cheap parts…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Take the Zune off the list - Arch Design with Maya, and Inventor - “I just removed the Zune from my wishlist. This morning I was greeted with an unexpected package of tools from Autodesk (Thanks Carl!). I was planning to integr-8 some new tools into my workflow. I…”
From the 3D CAD blog: Inventor LT 2009 - free for all? - “The ‘light’ version of Autodesk Inventor - Inventor LT - will be still free in the new version 2009…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: STL Exporter from Revit available at autodesk labs - “Are you using Revit and tired of exporting to DWG, only to open the file and export to STL for 3D Printing? Now you can download the latest tool to hit autodesk labs, the Revit STL Exporter. Read…”
From SolidSmack.com: The 7 Best SolidWorks Keyboard Tricks - “Yes, it happens to all of us. We’re cruising along with the mouse, clickin’ this way and that, and typing some notes with the keyboard. Life is simpl…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Duct Size Parameter - Inches - Revit MEP - “If you used AutoCAD before using Revit you likely went through a bit of withdrawal from using inches as a base drawing unit. With Revit you had to get used to typing 0 space 6 for 0′-6″ or 0 dash 6…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Scripting a REVIT 2009 Local Copy Startup Routine - “For those of you curious about how the new “starting page” might impact your scripted copy/startup routine you can rest assured that they should continue to work as before. The video shown below…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Service Pack 2 Update - “If you receive a “1603 error” when installing Service Pack 2 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008, download and install the Service Pack again. Some users were getting the error which involved custom profiles…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Shared Parameter File - A Little Clarification - “Over the last few years I’ve posted several times about shared parameters (SP) so I thought I’d add this bit too. The context of this concerns the protection and/or management of the office SP file…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Feed Fixed…Links to missing posts since October - “While my rss feed was completely hosed some of you (who only participate via RSS) might have missed some of my posts…I’ll provide links below: BIM Manager Tool - Identify Revit Builds without…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Fixing Non Planar Walls in AutoCAD Architecture - VBA Powered - “Ever get a file in AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), aka the software formerly known as Architectural Desktop (ADT), that just had more wall cleanup problems than you knew what to do with? It happens…”
From WorldCAD Access: Flomerics to Autodesk: Save Us from Mentor - “ShareCast reports that Flomerics doesn’t like the unwanted, undervalued offer from Mentor Graphics, and is hoping Autodesk will pay a lot more more…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: IES VE-Ware, Building Energy Analysis for Revit 2009 - “Those of you who did not visit Boston this week may have missed the release of IES VE-Ware for Revit 2009. Interested in determining the carbon footprint for your designs? Visit IES website and…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Revit Build Checker Updated for 2009 Products - “Revit Build Checker has been updated to support Revit 2009 products when they are available. No need to launch Revit and search for the build number…just launch my script query the system and…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Tutorials from a Max Guru - “A long time ago I wrote a post about one of our resident Max gurus Louis Marcoux. He had created his own website and filled it with tones of video tutorials for 3ds Max. Well now he is on the AREA…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: VSTA for Revit Architecture Install - (Think VBA’s replacement!) - “I installed the recently received Autodesk Revit Architecture 2009 application on my laptop the other day. In browsing the DVD, I noticed a folder titled VSTA. If you want to install the Visual…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: ADT Layerkeys Macro Updated for ACA2008 - “Here is the updated version of my layerkey tool now updated for ACA2008. I’ll update for 2009 soon…those DIYers can simply change the libraries to the ACA2009 version by pointing to the same…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: BesideTheCursor - Reloaded…coming soon - “When this year started I promised to blog on a regular basis. Unfortunately, life sometimes gets in the way…nevertheless, I have been busy when I am not blogging. One of the things I’ve been…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: David’s Design ReForm - “David Fanos Design ReForm is a blog with tutorials and explorations in parametric modeling using applications like 3ds Max, Revit, Maya, and Rhino…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Las Vegas Civil Users Group - “Last night, I had the pleasure of presenting to the Las Vegas Civil Users Group. The members represent public agencies and private engineering and construction firms in the Las Vegas, Nevada area…”
From the Solidworks Blog: Screen Capture - “One of the best things about SolidWorks is that improves its capabilities and utilities based on customer feedback and understanding how they work, even the little things they do on a daily basis…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: The Golden Rules of Draughting: in 3D - “An ellipsis has three dots. Here’s an ellipsis: : It’s a widely used but normally misused punctuation mark. An ellipsis shows the sentence is not truly ended, or a continuation of idea or thought…”
From WorldCAD Access: Vernor:1; Autodesk: 0 - “Owen Wengerd’s AdskvOda Weblog has been tracking AutoCAD seller Vernor’s fight against Autodesk. Today he alerted me that consumers won this round…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: CityGML standard hopes to improve BIM interoperability - “Click the title (above) to download and comment on the proposed CityGML standard. Press release copied below: Wayland, Mass., February 19, 2008 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Personalize the BIM Talk widget…its easy! - “Got a quick question or suggestion for me when you’re visiting this blog? Why not personalize the BIM Talk widget when you find me online? I would like to know who you are…although its not…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Revit 2009 Interface Changes - Web Content Library - “Dwane Lindsey correctly identified the new location for the Revit Web Content Library as seen in the graphic below. Dwayne commented on a previous post, “Yes, the Web Library button has been…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: SolidWorks 2008 Service Pack 3.1 - Is It For You? - “Not unless you are running Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit! “Please note that the only difference between SolidWorks 2008 SP3.0 and SP3.1 is production support for Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Correction on Rib/Draft on Curved Surface Article - “I stand corrected on a previous article. I originally made a misstatement regarding the capabilities of SolidWorks to create drafts on ribs based on curved surfaces with controlled root widths…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Two out
of three winners of NVArt: Art Space use 3ds Max
for their conceptual design work - “CGSociety and NVIDIA worked together to create a competition around architecture and landscape. We’re thrilled to see that 3ds Max was the creative weapon of choice by two of the three winners…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Find out about the Storm Sewer Extension - “As announced on the Civil 3D Live Webcasts page, this Friday Dec. 7, 2007 Dave Simeone, Civil 3D Product Manager, will be demonstrating the NEW Storm Sewer Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008…”
From the Solidworks Blog: Focus on your Designs - a few quick tips - “SolidWorks 2007 has gone a long way to allow you to focus on designing not on CAD rules One way is by dealing with two of the most commonly performed operations in MCAD: viewing and selection…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Grab and release nCloth - “One can animate the enable attribute on nCloth constraints to grab and release the cloth. When a constraint becomes enabled it rebuilds its links based on the relative positions at that frame…”
From Chuck’s Blog: Have You Upgraded to Web 2.0? - “I was at a publishing conference in New York and they were talking about Web 2.0. How do you get it? It turns out I had it and did not know it…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Revit 2009…let the sharing begin! - “You should soon be seeing alot more information on Revit Architecture 2009 both here at besidethecursor, at AUGI, and elsewhere on the web. You will also soon be seeing more information at…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Subscription Benefit: prior version release improved! - “Were you aware that we introduced a revised benefit around prior releases that should make it easier to use? Effective with the 2009 products, those on subscription can take advantage of this…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Revit 2009 Enables Selection Feedback - “One of the things that was always difficult for Ex-AutoCAD users when migrating to Revit was the inability to know exactly what had been selected. In AutoCAD it was easy, simply go to the…”
From the CAD Insider blog: What Happened to Head to Head Reviews? - “With all that bloggers are doing, what is left for the traditional press? By their numbers, voraciousness and speed, bloggers seemed to have nailed event coverage. It wasn’t even a contest…”
From WorldCAD Access: Half-a-Billion Richer - No Way! - “According to Yahoo Finance, Autodesk officer George Bado was made $0.4 billion richer through the sale of ADSK shares at $17525 per share…”
From the Solidworks Blog: Fix it instead of throwing it away - “From time to time I get some interesting thoughts shared from other product managers at SolidWorks. Below are some thoughts from Mark Biasotti another product manager here at SolidWorks…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Academy award for Maya Fluids - “I’m happy to report that the Maya Fluids team (Jos Stam, Julia Pakalns, Martin Werner and myself) will be presented technical achievement awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Coins With nCloth - “While in general I would recommend using a dedicated rigid body solver for things like falling coins, it is possible to do this with nCloth in a relatively stable and efficient manner…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Is Revit like your Spouse? - “I recently had someone share a funny Revit story with me. This un-named person (to protect the guilty) was expressing frustration with Revit, the learning curve and getting used to it…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Microsoft is cloud building, with lots of servers… - “There seems to be plenty of news about clouds, even when the weather is fine! Its not about stormy weather, but rather Cloud Computing…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Pro/E tip (admin): Custom fonts - “This post probably won’t make me any friends, but here goes. I read something on the exploder the other day that seemed like a good idea: Create a strikethrough font for drawing notes…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Spam Blogging - “I’ve backed off blogging a bit lately because unfortunately my blog has been flagged as a spam blog by google. Apparently this can happen when a blog has a lot of links to other sites…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Tale of a Round Trip - Revit MEP Family and RAC - “Attended a local user group recently and an attendee asked if it was possible, and/or useful, to use a Revit MEP (RME) family in a Revit Architecture (RAC) model, for example a toilet…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: 3ds Max 2009 Update - “Well, we’re 5 days post-shipping, not sure if anyone has received their physical boxes, but the trial downloads are in the 10’s of thousands, so somebody is trying to play with it…”
From WorldCAD Access: Free CAD Files from Via - “Via is a Taiwanese chipmaker that today unveiled its OpenDesign site, where you can download the CAD files for a notebook computer…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Sliding Curtain Rail - “With nCloth it is easy to make curtains that are attached to sliding curtain hooks. The basic trick is to use a slide on surface constraint with a long skinny surface for the rail…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #67: Selective Decimation - “If you have ever wanted to take your 3DVIA Composer file and maximize the performance while reducing file size and maintaining important details, this week’s podcast is a must-se…”
From Deep Discussions about Deep Topics: Dispatches from COE 2008 - “In the immortal words of Julias Ceaser, ‘Veni Vidi Vici’ For those of you not fully brushed up on your Latin (myself included) that translates to, ‘We Came, We Saw, We Conquered’…”
From WorldCAD Access: Not Understanding CPU Lineups - “Life for computer nerds used to be easy. In terms of Intel CPUs, there was the 8088, followed by the 80286, followed by the 30836…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Walt Disney World in Google Earth - “Disney have just released a remarkable 3D model collection on Google Earth covering the massive Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Digital Design Coordinator (DDC) Wanted-London or Sussex - “Chris Blandford Associates express and present innovative and creative landscape design and environmental planning projects, using a wide range of computer aided design packages…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: RECOVERALL Command - “I had not yet used the RECOVERALL command. Actually, it is a command I had forgotten about. I recently saw a it mentioned and was greatful for the reminder. Here is how it works…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Adobe Has A Lot of CAD Functionality - “The folks at Adobe gave me a 90-minute demo of version 9 of their products over a Web connection. That’s about 3 times as long as a normal tradeshow demo. It wasn’t long enough…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: Physics is Phun! - “Here’s another time-waster for all you folks! Phun is a “2D physics sandbox” that lets you quickly design all sorts of things and simulate how they will react in the real world…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Think of the Possibilities - Dynamic Feature Lines from a Corridor - “Some of you may have heard by now that Civil 3D 2009 allows for feature lines that are extracted from a corridor to be dynamically linked to the corridor (see next two images)…”
From the COFES.com blog: April Jobs Report - the Worst is Over! - “Yesterday, May 2, 2008, the US Labor Department issued its monthly Jobs Report for April 2008. The Report estimates that ‘only’ 20,000 more US net jobs were lost in the month…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Dewoitine D520 in 3DVIA Composer! - “With apologies to our bilingual friends who have already seen this in a previous post, I am pleased to present to you a sample 3DVIA Composer file created by Laurent BEAUVAI…”
From Chuck’s Blog: Goodbye San Diego - “After 5 intense days of talks and product demos my head is spinning and it’s time to get back to my wood burning stove in CT…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: My AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 Top Five - “Among the many enhancements, and new features of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 these are the five items that I think will have the most impact on users, procedures, or workflows…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Autodesk’s WisDOT Official Press Release - “Yesterday, we posted an official press release regarding the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s decision to implement AutoCAD Civil 3D to produce new roadway designs…”
From the Solidworks Blog: Search for the refined user - “Back in August I wrote about the new innovative Search capabilities included in SolidWorks 2007. Many of you gave the new Search a try and found it to be a very handy tool…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: 3ds Max Tutorial, Windchimes with Reactor - “Hey everyone I’m back with a series of video tutorials and tips and tricks. This first one is a quick video I knocked off over the weekend based on a thread on the forums…”
From the CADDmanager blog: June 2008 Poll - “How social are you? well at least online… I was curious about some of the social sites and how people are connecting. Let us know if you are ‘connected’ to any of these…”
From Chuck’s Blog: Full Circle - Part II - “The early ’80s were good times for engineers and business people who could not afford, nor desired, main frame computers…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: Making Intelligent Notes and Equations - “When calling out holes on drawings, best engineering practices are to dimension holes in true profile views. SolidWorks will only let you place place hole notes on arcs…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #63: ‘SolidWorks: Heard!’ - “This week I am pleased to bring to you a podcast from solidworksheard.com, a site dedicated to providing tips, tricks, tutorials, or tech news on all things SolidWork…”
From WorldCAD Access: X3DMEDIA acquires AEC magazine - “They used to work there, now they own it. Martyn Day and Al Dean used to work at EDA, a magazine publisher in England…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Northern Pacific Civil Consortium - Open House - “Next Thursday, January 24, 2008, from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm, the Northern Pacific Civil Consortium (NPCC) will host an “Open House” meeting in Sacramento, California…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Becoming a Thought Leader - “Some of you may remember the commercials that would show people bending their ears to listen to Mr. Hutton? ‘When E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen,’ was the slogan…”
From SolidSmack.com: Killer 3D Performance With AMD Turion X2 Ultra? - “AMD has just been making all sorts of Duo-core, 64-bit waves with their new mobile ‘Puma’ platform release yesterda…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA Composer to be featured at ENOVIA Customer Conference Europe - “I am pleased to announce that 3DVIA Composer can be seen at the upcoming ENOVIA Customer Conference Europe (ECC Europe), June 3-4 in the Hilton Munich Park, German…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: 3ds Max/Design 2009 is shipping! - “We did it! We actually got this out the door without a lot of trauma. Some births are easy-peazy, others are a drawn-out painful experience as all you mothers know…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: AU 2008: Last call for great presenters - “Two words: submissions deadline. If you’re considering joining our outstanding slate of speakers at Autodesk University 2008, you’ll have to act by April 27, 2008…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Time to vote for the Autodesk Masters - “Based on nominations from the community we have put together a short list of 3ds Max and Maya artists that you can vote to have named this years Autodesk Masters…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: New Scale List Cleanup Utility - “There was a point (early 2007) where drawings were misbehaving by inheriting the scalelist from their xrefs. Excess scales could eventually degraded performance…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: 3ds Max and Visual Simulation - “One of the surprise (undocumented) treats in 3ds Max/Design 2009 is the inclusion of Bluerock Technologies Flight Studio for OpenFlight (FLT) import and export…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: Python scripting for Autodesk MotionBuilder Course - “Following up on the first MotionBuilder Master Class being posted in the Subscription Center, I am pleased to announce that Jason Parks has published his class…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Pro/E Tip (interface): ‘Hide’-ing parts during export - “Did you know that ‘hidden’ parts will not be exported during IGES exports? It’s a quick and dirty way to protect your intellectual property or simplify models…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Structure - Travelogue - “I try not to dabble or indulge my personal stuff on this blog too much, apart from Revit being my personal thing, but I was wandering around downtown Billings…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Weblog design changes - Work in progress - “If youre reading the feed you wont have noticed but visitors to the weblog page will see some layout changes…”
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 the Brian, CADFanatic blog: The Buzzwords of SWW 2008: Performance, Scalabilty, and Reliability - “What a week! I finally got to meet a lot of familiar people face to face for the first time, catch up with friends, and meet many new and interesting people…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: AU Needs U! - “It is that time of year again. The 16th Autodesk University (AU) will be held again this year at the Venetian Resort Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada in November…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Detecting XP64 versus XP32 - Autolisp Function - “Do you need a function that detects whether AutoCAD is running under XP32 or XP64? I had the need today. This is what I came up with: ;;; Begin code ;;;…”
From Deep Discussions about Deep Topics: Orlando Redeaux: SAP Sapphire 2008 - “Same location. Different universe. This week brought me back to Orlando for SAP’s annual Sapphire event for the America’s and this week it was all business…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA Composer to be featured at ENOVIA Americas Customer Conference - “I am pleased to announce that 3DVIA Composer can be seen at the upcoming ENOVIA Americas Customer Conference, May 6-9 in the Orlando World Center Marriot…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Pro/E Tip: Last of the 3-button mice? - “Over the years I’ve had several Contour Design mice. The last one was kinda disappointing, but I was desperate for a new mouse and I went back to Contour…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Mindjet acquire JCVGantt - Syncronised Mindmaps and Gantt Charts - “I depend on MindManager to aggregate and manage project information from many sources into a dashboard…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Revit User Group of New Zealand - Notice of May Meeting - “The next RUGNZ meeting is to be held on 21 st May at Jasmax’s Offices - Level 4, 65 Upper Queen Street…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: So you think you know AccuDraw #4: Co-ordinates - “AccuDraw works to the principle of co-ordinate systems. When you draw an element you specify a start point then enter a relative co-ordinate from there…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Video of ACA2009 Non-CoPlanar Walls and Fix - “Here is a video showing the problems with OsnapZ and showing the VBA fix in action. To download a copy of the code, just look at the previous blog post…”
From Deep Discussions about Deep Topics: The (Almost) Obvious Next Step - “Hello, Let me introduce myself. I am Michael Lynch, CEO of Right Hemisphere, and I am very excited to be posting my first piece up on the Deep 3D Blo…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Global “BIMStorm” Forecast to hit London - “A reader emailed me about BIMStorm London which is happening in June (details in the extended post)…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Element Templates 101 - “WHAT ARE THEY? Element templates are named sets of element parameters that can be applied to elements or used to set the active placement parameter…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: SolidWorks World 2008 Pictures - “Well, I finally got all the pictures I took at SolidWorks World 2008 in San Diego online! I will be the first to admit that I am not a great photog…”
From Deep Discussions about Deep Topics: Welcome to Deep3D - “My name is Mark Doberenz and I’ve been working at Right Hemisphere for almost four years now. It feels like it’s been four minutes….. under water…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CADD Manager Blog - passing 600,000 - “This past week I hit 600,000 page visits on the blog site. - Yeehaw!! Back in January 2008, I passed the 500,000 page hits. Here are some stats…”
From WorldCAD Access: Reaction to the Vernor Win - “Some 30 readers at The Register comment on Vernor beating Autdoesk’s request to kill the law suit…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Learn Maya, earn $$ in your spare time!! - “This is just a little render I did using the technique in my last post. I just added some more coins and raytraced the animation for a metal look…”
From SolidSmack.com: Adobe Launches Acrobat.com and Acrobat 9 - “Close your eyes. Imagine sending a plain ol’ PDF to someone. Ok, now imagine sending a 3D PDF….”
From the CAD Insider blog: Blogger Speaks the Unspeakable - “Mike Puckett has done the unspeakable: he has taken on a CAD CEO. Who is Mike Puckett? To call Mike a SolidWorks user is to not do him justice…”
From SolidSmack.com: Dassault V6 Crumbles AntiSocial CAD and PLM - “Look out people, there’s a new breed of CAD in town and it might make you slightly more socia…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Best practices: Please post - “I’m going to attempt to summarize the ‘Best Practice’ information I’ve collected over the years in a couple of pages over the next few months…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Tech Writers Unite! - “It had been a long standing assumption of mine that anybody threatened by new technology would dig in their heels and fight for the status qu…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Why New Zealand needs a new flag! - “Im not picking on Corel but the image ( left ) is from an email upgrade offer for Corel X4…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Back from the future - “We’re finally back from visiting customers in all of our markets and discussing trends, requirements, roadmaps and issues facing customers…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Dept. of Subtle - Options Bar and Tab Key - “Hi again, another video attempt at a post. We need to pay close attention to the “focus” of Revit when we enter a value on the Options Bar…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Volume displacement method for clouds using fluids - “I was recently asked how to convert a cloud displacement map to bring it into Maya fluids. Displacement is rather incomplete for clouds….”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #64: ENOVIA SmarTeam Integration Sample - “We are often asked about whether 3DVIA Composer can be integrated into a PDM or PLM system. The answer, of course, is a resounding “yes…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Order of Business: Possibly Rename Resources Site - “I am considering renaming Lorono’s SolidWorks Resources website. I’ve not made up my mind if I want to or should. So, let me ask others…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: MotionBuilder Siggraph MasterClass Available for Download - “The first of the two MotionBuilder MasterClasses has been posted on the Autodesk.com Subscription Center and is available for download…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Ancient references - “Many people are familiar with this illusion of the “old lady, young lady” image. This old/new paradigm seems to be all the rage latel…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Storm Sewer Extension, Webpage, Discussion Group, and Recorded Webcast Available - “My Outlook Express informed me that a NEW discussion group was available among the Autodesk newsgroups today. It is titled Stormwater…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA Composer to be featured at the COE PLM Conference - “Newsflash: 3DVIA Composer has been added to the breakout session grid at COE! Chris Williams, the General Manager of 3DVIA Enterpris…”
From 3D CAD News: Images of COFES 2008 - “Here, in no particular order, telling no particular story, are some photos from COFES 2008, which took place last week in Scottsdale…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: An Aussie AutoCAD Architecture Blog! - “Nathan has just gone public with his Australian, Aussie, AutoCAD Architecture Blog…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Hostile Takeover - Google takes on Autodesk AND Bentley - “Latherdon - 2008 In a surprise move, some say shocking, this morning Google announced its intent to take over Autodesk AND Bentley…”
From SolidSmack.com: 3D Coming to Your Browser: Google Earth Online - “The Google I/O conference is in full swing with all sorts of goodies coming ou…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: June 2008 - “With June upon us, I think everyone in the UK blinked and in doing so forgot momentarily about this years Bentley BE conference…”
From the COFES.com blog: “Slowdown” or “Recession” ?? - “Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, the current administration continues to deny that a recession is abroad in the land…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: So you think you know AccuDraw #5: Oh, that’s what it does - “AccuDraw is designed to help you draw accurately (Accurate Drawing) but it is also designed to help you draw more efficiently…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: So you think you know AccuDraw #6: K is for Snap: - “Normally an element is divided into 2 parts. This gives you, for example, 3 snaps on a line: the start, middle and end points…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Thanks for a special Q1! - “Apparently some of you do think we’re on the right track and you voted in the most meaningful way you can - with your wallet…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Displaying outlines of 3D elements - “If you work in 3D using MicroStation you may, like us, get irritated when you can’t see the edges of your elements properly…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: North America - AUGI CAD Camps, June and July 2008 - “Below is a list of AUGI CAD Camps that have been announced to date, taking place in North America during June and July 2008…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: 2008 SIGGRAPH MasterClass tickets on sale now! - “There will be three huge MotionBuilder classes this year, so make sure you get signed up to all three before they are full…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #70: Simulating fluid flow in a tube - “If you have ever wanted to simulate fluid flowing through a tube or filling up a bottle, this week’s podcast is a must-se…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Creating raindrops on water with fluid wakes - “One can create raindrop ripples on a fluid wake by randomly emitting density into fluid voxels with a simple expression…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: 3ds Max 2009 Review! - “The first reviews of our 2009 release are beginning to show up. Here’s one from Ryan Lesser that shows up in VFxworld…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: It’s back - FBX for Quicktime! - “After what some might describe as an eternity, the FBX team delivers a huge update to the FBX plug-in for QuickTime 7…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: SolidWorks Technical Summit Dates Released! - “The dates for the 10 SolidWorks Technical Summits in 2008 have been posted! Be sure to check for the city nearest you…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Survey Link for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 - “There is an extension now available for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 customers on Autodesk Subscription. The extension is…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Junior CAD Assistant wanted London - “Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, a 400 person international architectural practice with offices in New York, London…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Rod Drury has a plan to fix Microsoft - “Rod, Xero, Drury has laid out an 18 point plan to fix Microsoft…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Bloggers Get the Scoop - “It’s hard for the press to compete with bloggers. There are so many of them. They report on each and everything…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Project CAD Coordinator wanted London - “Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, a 400 person international architectural pratice with offices in New York, London…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Release Date Released - April 15th, 2008 - “A couple of resellers have announced the expected ship date for Revit 2009 software and it is April 15th, 2008…”
From the CAD Insider blog: CAD Insider Gets Noticed - “With the ratio of blogger to CAD user nearing 1:1, it’s no wonder someone offers a service that ranks blogs…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Two New Civil 3D Knowledge Base Entries - “These two entries recently were added to the Knowledge Base. I am sure that some will be helped by them…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: User Groups - “Last night, I was at the Autodesk Civil Engineering Solutions (A.C.E.S.) User Group of Southern California…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: Making waves, charging forward - “Autodesk signs definitive agreement to acquire Kynogon, maker of Kynapse -the leading game AI middleware…”
From 3D CAD News: ShareHolders not happy with MoldFlow Acquisition? - “While I was googling the Moldflow acquisition news today, I happened across an interesting sponsor link…”
From 3D CAD News: Adobe Updates Acrobat 3D CAD Translators - “Today Adobe released a free download that delivers updated 3D CAD translators for Acrobat 3D Version 8…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Technology Asset Yard Sale - “A couple of weeks ago, both Right Hemisphere and Anark announced the sell-off of their gaming division…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: 3ds Max and Games - “What do these blockbuster games, GTA IV, Assassin’s Creed, Bioshock and Guitar Hero, have in common?…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: Back online and better than ever! - “We are back with our hotfix release of MotionBuilder 7.5 Ext2b and it is live on the support site…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #68: Dewoitine D520 animated! - “You may recall the Dewoitine D520 example that Laurent BEAUVAIS had created in 3DVIA Composer. M…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Pop-up Select (aka Pick Chooser) - “Select one object from a popup list - it’s useful when you have a bunch of overlapping objects…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Pro/E Tip (intralink): Old news - moving .proi with ldbconvert - “Everyone but me must know this, but here’s a pointer to a PTC/USER post explaining the process…”
From the Solidworks Blog: What’s Changed - “Many times in the course of modifying designs you look at two versions of a design and wonder:…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Bloggers - Kids in the Candy Store - “Bloggers bring an excitement that has been been missing in the coverage of the CAD industry…”
From the Solidworks Blog: PDMWorks Enterprise: Who is it for? - “I have received many questions regarding the newly released PDMWorks Enterprise PDM product…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Ink in water using maya fluids - “Here are a couple of example Maya files that show using Maya Fluids to handle ink in water…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGI Survey, May 2008: Migrating to new Autodesk product releases, survey closes today - “Regarding BLAUGI post - AUGI Survey, May 2008: Migrating to new Autodesk product releases…”
From Deep Discussions about Deep Topics: Printing Dynamically Loaded Images with Flex - “Recently, I was struggling how to get dynamically loaded images to print in a Flex Report…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Pipe Materials - “A fairly common comment from someone using the Piping/Plumbing features in Revit MEP is…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Autodesk Pushes Interdisciplinary Application - “SAN FRANCISCO (Autodesk World Press Days), Jan 13, 2008 - In the AEC demo shown today…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Paper Airplanes using nCloth - “Here is a scene file that lets you launch and fly 5 different paper airplane designs…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Bubble Level with nCloth - “It is relatively simple to implement a bubble style carpenter’s level with nCloth…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Dept. of Subtle - Filter Parameter in Tags (really subtle) - “This item is very arcane and until recently just another little mystery to me…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: What Commands In Civil 3D Do You Use Most? - “I recently saw some the results of a study of the most used Civil 3D commands…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #65: Intelligent Views, Part 1 - “Many of you have seen how easy it is to create views with 3DVIA Compose…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Order of Business: New Members - “First, I would like to welcome two new members to the SolidWorks Legion…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Skill Builder - “I am not certain when this particular Skill Builder became available…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: Spring is here! - “Two announcements to usher in the sunny spring days here in Montreal…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Copyright Owners and First Sale Dotrine - “Something must be in the air. Again the topic of copyright comes up…”
From the Solidworks Blog: Better Visualization with Sketch Ghosting - “One of SolidWorks forte’s is ‘Delete nothing - Change everything’…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: SecureZIP anyone? - “I have a soft spot for PKZIP, so I’m going to give this a try…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Tips & Tricks - how to animate a flipping cube - “This tutorial is my answer to a question on the Area forums…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Failsafing your Pro/E network - “FAILSAFE -adjective: guaranteed to work; totally reliable…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Visualization is not enough - “We have said this many times: visualization is not enoug…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: We’ll be right back - “Issue with our CGFX shader in MotionBuilder 7.5 Ext2a…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Measuring - “How can you get the volume or area of an object?…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Menu Sets can be Customized - “Here’s how I have mine set for Polygons…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: Welcome to 2008 - “A new year for all things MotionBuilder…”
From Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 Service Pack 2 Available - “Service Pack 2 was posted for download…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: GDC2008 Mocap-Recap: Is 2008 the year of capture? - “Who wasn’t showing off mocap this year…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: GDC 2008 Videos - “You can still see some of the action…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Off Topic - Amputee Has Advantage - “Not the slightest bit about Revit…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Want to present at Autodesk University - “Speaker registration ends April 27…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Normalizing curves in the Graph Editor - “See curves with relative values…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: FBX 2009.1 - “A new FBX plug-in is available…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Command Quick Help - “A script editor shortcut…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Updates to Bonus Tools and Level Tools - “Speaking of new stuff…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Windows Desktop Heap - “Ever googled that?…”

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