26 July 2008
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Beady Eyes - “I’m tellin’ ya now. One of those wiggly little creatures is bad enough, but I draw the line at two. That’s when you gotta get out an extra wetnap, a banana and some tasty links like thes…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 Design Hotfix - 2008.06.10 - “A week ago (Published date: 2008-07-18), Autodesk released a new Hotfix for Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009: Hotfix - Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009 - 2008.06.10 Don’t forget to download and read the accompanying Readme (PDF) file…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: You say AutoCAD Product Update, I say AutoCAD Bug Fix… - “Autodesks AutoCAD 2009 based service packs, the big between release bug fixes, are out. This time they have been re-branded from Service Packs to Product Updates…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Goodbye Randy - “Via Joel Orr, I was sad to learn Randy Pausch has died. I was only reading his update page a couple of nights ago so it wasnt unexpected. Goodbye thanks…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: What’s the future? - “Here’s a question that I get all the time! Especially as we head into SIGGRAPH and this will be the first SIGGRAPH in a long time when we will NOT announce a major new release of 3ds Max…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #74: ‘Really fast exploded views’ - “Have you ever spent hours to create a complicated exploded view, with thrust lines and callouts, only to have to re-do it when engineering makes a change on you? This wee…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Video: Presentation ideas and tips from Garr Reynolds (Presentationzen.com) - “If you give presentations eg ‘AUGI CAD Camp’ / ‘Autodesk University’, and would like to pick-up a few ideas and tips from an expert…”
From the COFES.com blog: Model-driven Engineering? - “Now that specification-based engineering is being supeseded by modeling how shall we avoid confusion about modeling?…”
From the Revit OpEd blog: Revit Curiosity - Revit Civil - “A frequent request among Revit users is more site tools…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: SPEO
S Software by OPTIS Complies with International
Color Consortium Color Profiles - “Users can view colors correctly and identically regardless of the type of screen used…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Using Reference
Sketches to Create Advanced Geometry (Alibre
Design Tips) - “Control features used to create advanced geometry with reference sketches…”
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: Building a Better World in GeoWeb 2008, Part 1 - “Web-based GIS moves from descriptive to predictive modeling…”
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: ESRI Press Publishes Two Books on Creating and Using GIS Systems - “Books share methodology for building a successful system by planning the infrastructure and focusing on return on investment…”
MORE FROM THE BLOGGERS
Revit Extensions for Revit Architecture 2009 from the Revit OpEd blog
Positional Representations… from The Gear Box blog at Autodesk
Validate your Inventor data before you Vault from the Under the Hood blog at Autodesk
SketchUp Seven in September? from WorldCAD Access
ALSO IN THE NEWS
3D Systems Announces Conference Call and Webcast to Discuss Second Quarter and Six Months 2008 Results from MCADCafe
Bottero Chooses Altair HyperWorks Simulation Platform for Development of Glass Production Lines from MCADCafe
Cimatron Completes the Increase of its Holding in Microsystem to 100% from MCADCafe
Oracle Names Bruce R. Chizen To Board Of Directors from MCADCafe
Siemens PLM Software Ships Version 6 of CAM Express from MCADCafe