19 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: Google SketchUp, 3D Warehouse and Alibre Design Xpress: an unbeatable combination ‘ for free! - “Imagine a future when anyone can get access to state-of-the-art, easy-to-use 3D modeling tools that incorporate rich collaboration and publishing capabilities, and better it’s all free and backed by profitable growing businesses…”
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: Ribbon for Inventor 2009 is here - “Autodesk has just published the announced ribbon user interface for Inventor - the add-on module ‘UI Technology Preview for Autodesk Inventor 2009′. This add-on is downloadable from labs.autodesk.com…”
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: Who Needs MicroStation? - “Chris Hannukainen of Pangaea CAD Solutions reminds me about their free DualCAD editor that reads and writes design files in MicroStation format. It views, draws and edits elements, measures, and prints V7 and V8 DGN files in 2D…”
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 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 SolidSmack.com: Using A Wiimote to Control 3D CAD, SolidWorks? - “Ok folks, so here it is. The beginning of the end of the mouse and 3D desktop controls. The first I saw of this was a craptastic video back in March of some guys fiddling with a glove and a wiimote to control SolidWork…”
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 SolidSmack.com: Apple iPhone, SolidWorks 2009 Beta, It’s All Crazy *Updated* - “Right now, everything is in this amazing state of flux. The Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) is kicking off (10AM PST) on the WestCoast and on the East Coast SolidWorks 2009 Beta may be announce (12AM EST…”
From SolidSmack.com: Cooler Than Cool: Develop3D Magazine Out Soon Plus Free Subscription - “The brand spankin’ new 3D technology magazine, Develop3D, has just gone to print. You’ll definitely want to get your hands on this, because for one thing, yours truly is a columnist for the fine outfit based out of U…”
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 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: 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 WorldCAD Access: Autodesk’s Second Customer Briefing Center - “Earlier this year, Autodesk opened a customer briefing center near Portland OR, to court MCAD and Alias customers. This fall, Autodesk opens a similar center for architecture customers in San Francisco CA…”
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: SolidWorks Confirmation Corner. Use It? Loose It? Three Other Options - “The SolidWorks Confirmation Corner. That little island in the corner just tempting you to become a more decisive person. One option, to accept the ensuing fate of the changes you’ve made to your sketch…”
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 the 3D CAD blog: Next Star Wars episodes to be done in Inventor? - “The German cad.de user Sebastian (’Aesop’) has published his work - a Star Wars theme movie completely modeled and rendered in Autodesk Inventor…”
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 SolidSmack.com: Reader Poll: What Do You Like (Dislike) About SolidSmack? - “SolidSmack has been around for just over a year and I’m lovin’ every bit of every juicy 3D/Tech/Design/SolidWorks Tip post I put up, but last night in the wee hours of a foggy night I wondere…”
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 SolidSmack.com: 5 SolidWorks Options to Be Quicker Than the Other Guy - “‘Son, that boy is faster at sketchin’ some 3D than a greased zebra chasin’ a three-legged yak.’ Now wouldn’t you want to be described like that? Well, there’s more to being fast in SolidWork…”
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 SolidSmack.com: From Flat to Cool: Three New Twist on Product Design - “What incredibly functional complex designs could you possibly think up if you only had fabric, sheet metal or wood to work with? More than you could do carpet scraps and hot glue I imagin…”
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 SolidSmack.com: Product Design: Could You Design A Door? - “Designing a door seems like the simplest thing you could attempt right? A panel, some holes, and a bit of glass. Contemporary door design makes it even easier with all the straight lines…”
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 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 SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: The Beans Have It - “It’s one thing if you’re just standing there waiting for the subway to come by, it’s a completely different thing if you’re standing there minding your business, maybe reading a pape…”
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 SolidSmack.com: FireFox3 Rocks Your Noodle at Noon CST - “Today is the official Download Day 2008 for the new version of the Firefox web browser. Their mission: to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hour…”
From WorldCAD Access: Randall Reporting: Google Basecamp - “Randall Newton is live blogging his experiences attending Google’s Basecamp for SketchUp users. Google artificially limited attendence to 300, so Randall’s one of the lucky ones…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #71: Standard Icons from Xype - “Here is a great sample given to us from Richard Hale of Xype. The effective use of standard icons is prevalent in this example, and is used to ensure efficient information transfer from the author to the consumer of the dat…”
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 CADDmanager blog: Becoming a Thought Leader - by Speaking - “I continue the topic of becoming a Thought Leader… Several areas that you may get involved in, when viewed properly, combine into a mixture that can place you at the top of your field and garners the respect of outsiders…”
From the 3DMojo blog: See 3DVIA Composer at DEVCON 2008! - “3DVIA Composer will be presented in three separate sessions at DEVCON next week in Paris. On Tuesday June 17 at 4:30 pm, take a hands-on test drive of 3DVIA Composer with James DUGALAIS and Christophe DELFINO as your guide…”
From WorldCAD Access: Waddington’s EULA Showdown - “Are EULAs enforceable? R. Paul Waddington thinks not. We don’t read end-user license agreements, and software companies don’t enforce them, he says at his Caveat Emptor blog…”
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 Revit OpEd blog: Survey Says? - “There seems, to me, to be an epidemic of surveys. I must be wearing some secret Post-It note on my back saying, “Send this guy surveys”. I can’t go more than a couple of days without getting a request to complete a survey…”
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 the Solidworks Legion blog: Patent Exhaustion (First Sale Doctrine for Patents) is upheld - “Yet another blow for customers’ rights last week via the Supreme Court which just handed down a ruling that upholds Patent Exhaustion regardless of a patent holder’s notices or attempts to put limitions on the purchaser…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: SnagIt for software support - “SnagIt is a great tool for authoring support documents, a screen capture is worth a zillion words, but its also a useful tool for capturing software problems for analysis…”
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 WorldCAD Access: Believe Us, We’re Doing Great - “Adobe Systems Q2 revenues were this US$887 million, beating the Street’s consensus of $880 million. But in Q3, the company expects revenues to fall to $855-$885 million…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Cool Auto Design, Thanks to Pulse… - “While I have many CAD/BIM/Design RSS feeds in my reader its always good to find new ones. In this case I found Car Body Design.com via Francos Novedge Pulse aggregator…”
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 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 CADDmanager blog: Autodesk Experience Tour - Anaheim - “I attended the Autodesk Experience Tour in Anaheim, California yesterday. It was very well attended, but I don’t really know the extent of the attendees becasue the event shared lobby space with another conference…”
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 the CAD Insider blog: Solid Edge Ready to Take Off - “Though never faulted for its technical prowess, Solid Edge has languished in the MCAD market as the spotlight often shines on SolidWorks and Inventor (see my post “The Best MCAD Program You Won’t Buy” June 2006)…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Becoming a Thought Leader - through Conversations - “Continuing the flow of posts on Thought Leadership… We have covered the introduction of the topic and how some may want to gain voice in the industry that they are working or at the office/firm they are with…”
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 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 RobiNZ CAD Blog: Italdesign @ 33 - “Automotive.com have a great article celebrating Italdesigns 33 rd Anniversary. They feature a range of concept and production cars, both exotic and everyday…”
From WorldCAD Access: ADSK Owns MFLO - “Autodesk completes purchase of Moldflow. Final price tag: $201.7 million. Next up: dealing with Flomeric’s demand for an all-cash offer from Autodesk. Sigh…”
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 Revit OpEd blog: Reviewing Warnings - “A subtle improvement to this feature exists in the latest release. When you select an element which has a warning associated with it an Options Bar button appears which permits the user to see the warning…”
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 SolidSmack.com: Stop the SolidWorks Rot: Simple Tips for Awesome Design Practices - “It’s inevitable. A hundred models of a screw and they’re all created a different way. I’m telling ya, it’s an open flesh wound just waiting to get infecte…”
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: Cool 3D: Creating the Modern City - “If you look over the edge of your coffee cup you’ll notice everything is going 3D. There’s more news about 3D maps, 3D TV’s and 3D games than ever befor…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Did you notice, I didn’t! - “Since it likely happened while I was at work I had no hint of any TypePad problems today. I found an email, as per the post below, I in my inbox tonight…”
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 guru 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: 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 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 the Eat Your CAD blog: So you think you know AccuDraw #7: Suspending Your Toggles - “AccuSnap can be disabled at any time by holding down the Shift and Ctrl buttons simultaneously. The problem with doing that while you are drawing is that you can no longer click the mouse…”
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 Alibre CEO blog: The 4-Hour Work Week - “I’m reading an interesting book by a guy named Timothy Ferriss, ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’…”
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 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 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 Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Optimum monitor setup? - “I can never get enough screen real estate, so here’s my latest: This isn’t as extravagant as it looks. If you upgrade your 20′ with a 30′, just hang onto the old 20′ and rotate it…”
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 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 the Revit OpEd blog: Must Read List: 2009 Help File - “If you are like me you’ve been slowly digging into the new Help documentation for Revit 2009 “ASMEP”? Then you have already noticed that a lot of effort has been applied to it…”
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 Brian, CADFanatic blog: FEA Attack - “A co-worker just shared this with me. It’s funny, but I think it captures the feelings of many people when dealing with FEA: “I thought you guys would get a kick out of this…”
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 the Eat Your CAD blog: Importing Structural Engineers models into MicroStation - 101 - “The basics Many structural engineers now use 3D software of some description to build their models. Common tools include StruCAD, 3D+ and, probably the most popular, X-Stee…”
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 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Get on our Siggraph show reel - “In just a few weeks we will begin editing our latest and greatest Siggraph show reel. This reel is a who’s who of companies doing fantastic cg work with Autodesk products…”
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 RobiNZ CAD Blog: What time is it, not subscription time? - “Having just wasted some money on the new(er) toy I arrived home to an email warning my CAD subscription was expiring soon…”
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 Solidworks Legion blog: How to use a Model’s Material directly on the Drawing - “I should start out by saying that I personally advise against using the model’s Material value directly on a drawing. However, below is the instructions to do just this…”
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 SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks 2009 Beta. Monday?:We Meant Tuesday - “The SolidWorks 2009 Beta program that was rumored to launch Monday (yesterday) has just gone live at the customer porta…”
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 RobiNZ CAD Blog: Posted from a cloud - “Im trying as part of my blog authoring process and so far its working fine! Welcome To Live Mesh - The Live Mesh Blog…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Dept. of Subtle - New Floor/Ceiling Plan Views - “A subtle feature in the “New Plan” (”New RCP” for ceiling plans) dialog proved quite confusing to new users. In 2009 it has changed. This is the one I’m referring to…”
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 the 3DMojo blog: Fun of use - “Everybody wants to buy software that is “easy to use”, but what does that mean? “Ease of use” is a very subjective term, something that often is impossible to defin…”
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 Revit OpEd blog: Portland Revit User Group - Pub Crawl - “In addition to me visiting this group’s meeting on Friday, June 27th. The AUGI board is planning to arrange a social “pub crawl” at a local restaurant or brew pub…”
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 the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Firefox 3 - The Robots have been released! - “Earlier today (2008-06-17) albeit an hour or so later than originally planned (as the download servers initially struggled to cope with the overwhelming demand)…”
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 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 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 the Revit OpEd blog: New Label Feature - Easier Prefix/Suffix - “With 2009 comes a new Label Dialog which permits the joining of multiple parameters into a single label. In addition you can include a suffix and/or prefix…”
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 RobiNZ CAD Blog: Revit User Group of New Zealand - Notice of June Meeting - “The next RUGNZ meeting is to be held on June 18 th . at Jasmax’s Offices - Level 4, 65 Upper Queen Street…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: SolidWorks Robotics University - “SolidWorks has a new educational site set up called SolidWorks Robotics University. It is geared more towards students and teachers, but is open to anyone…”
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 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 the Revit OpEd blog: Portland Revit User Group Meeting - Friday, June 27th - “I get to attend this local user group meeting a week from Friday because the AUGI board is meeting in Portland at the Autodesk offices in Lake Oswego…”
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 BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: User Interface (Ribbon) Technology Preview for Inventor 2009 - “Yesterday (2008-06-16) over on Autodesk Labs, Scott Sheppard announced the availability of a ‘UI (Ribbon) Technology Preview’ for Autodesk Inventor…”
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 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 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 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 Solidworks Legion blog: Setting up and using SolidWorks Revision Tables faster - “I am sometimes surprized by the limited the adoption of the SolidWorks Revision Table. This is a powerful tool for drawings within SolidWorks…”
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 the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AutoCAD Electrical 2008 Service Pack 2 available for download - “A couple of weeks ago Autodesk released (Published date: 2008-06-04) Service Pack 2 for AutoCAD Electrical 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit versions)…”
From Deep Discussions about Deep Topics: Deep Exploration & Deep View 5.5 Product Launch! - “First off I would like to introduce myself…I am Lars Olson, Product Manager for Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration desktop client tools…”
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: Into the ‘real’ world - “Hello my name is Joe. I have been working in the Engineering industry for about 7 months and been at my current job for almost 3 months…”
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 Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Vacation time! - “I’m off sailing a catamaran in the British Virgin Islands. I hope to recharge there and bring back more frequent postings with me…”
From WorldCAD Access: Secret, Like Microsoft - “A recent posting by Roopinder Tara caused some mulling to take place in my mind…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Autodesk Inventor 2009 Hotfix - ID: DL11355552 - “Two weeks ago Autodesk released (Published date: 2008-06-04) a new Hotfix for Autodesk Inventor (Professional or Suite) 2009…”
From the CAD Insider blog: CAD Programs Are So NOT the Same - “oLONG BEACH, CA (PTC World Event) - As I wasted way too much time online shopping for my own Father’s Day gift, a GPS unit (hey…”
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 WorldCAD Access: Folini Reporting: Interview with Evan Yares - “For those wondering about the mistique surrounding Evan Yares, wonder no more…”
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 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 BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGI HotNews (monthly email newsletter) - June 2008, hits the stands… - “AUGI’s official monthly email newsletter ‘AUGI HotNews - June 2008′ hits the streets and the ‘inboxes’ of its members…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: SnagIt 9 - the ribbon edition! - “When I saw Betsys post this morning I just had to try the new SnagIt…”
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 Revit OpEd blog: View Options - Discipline choice in Revit MEP - “A new feature in Revit MEP 2009 makes it a little easier to define which discipline a new view is assigned by default…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Remove Unknown Nodes - “Ever get into that situation where you can’t save a scene file as a different type because you have unknown nodes?…”
From SolidSmack.com: Yes, Finally, The Ultimate CAD/World Domination Workstation - “I’ll agree with you, workstations nowadays are just not cuttin’ i…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Revit Technology (BIM) Conference 2008 - Sydney, Australia - “Experience the power of BIM with Autodesk Revit. Experience the power of BIM at the region’s premiere Revit event…”
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 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 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 the CAD Insider blog: Keith Bentley Wants to Make it All Work Together - “BALTIMORE, MD (BE Conference) - I caught up to Keith Bentley at this years annual user meeting in Baltimore…”
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 Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Last Land Desktop - “The title of this post will get you to the official Land Desktop Page on the Autodesk website…”
From the MotionBuilder blog at Autodesk: On the hunt for MB gurus - “Looking for MotionBuilder gurus that are available for contract work, both on-site and remote…”
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 Solidworks Legion blog: Users, Choosers, and PDM-less Losers - “It’s a fairly common topic on most of the SW fora: ‘How do I move/manage/protect my files?’…”
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 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 Revit OpEd blog: Dept. of Subtle - Worksharing Message - “This is really really…really subtle but I find it funny and interesting nonetheless…”
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 Angel’s Civil 3D Thoughts: Simply Civil - “In case you have not yet heard, we will be offering a NEW civil solution in July…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Revit Technology Conference - Sydney, Australia - “This post is overdue, late etc…sorry! It’s that time again! June 26-28, 2008…”
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 Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Digital Hardware Store - “Check out Davvey’s tools for gears, pistons, stairs, nuts, bolts and more…”
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 Revit OpEd blog: Phoenix Revit User Group - “Tonight I had the opportunity to attend the Revit user group in Phoenix…”
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 Revit OpEd blog: Avatech’s Utilites Update for 2009 - “This is a bit stale news but I thought I’d mention it nonetheless…”
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 Revit OpEd blog: Rotate with Component - “This is a parameter that exists in the tag family template…”
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: New Mudbox Features? - “If you’re in the LA area you might want to see this…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Measuring - “How can you get the volume or area of an object?…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: So you think you know AccuDraw #8: Indexing - “Indexing is when AccuDraw jumps to an axis…”
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 the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: AliasDesign - “Community site for our Design Brethren…”
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: Normalizing curves in the Graph Editor - “See curves with relative values…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Updates to Bonus Tools and Level Tools - “Speaking of new stuff…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: MEL Fractal Generator - “Beautiful images…”

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