30 July 2008
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From SolidSmack.com: Microsoft Surface Goes Spherical. Better Curves for 3D CAD? - “Isn’t display technology just wonderful? No? You want something curved? well, if you’re not happy with the flat Microsoft Surface with multi-touch, get ready to literally wrap your hands around the Spherical versio…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: A Cuil ActiveWord? - “Shaan laments the death of spelling and I think I agree. Im also not sure how good (note I resisted using the word cool here!) the new search engine Cuil is but its worth an ActiveWord…”
From WorldCAD Access: Industrial Design: The Movie - “A movie about industrial design, from the maker of Helvetica (the movie about typefaces), Gary Hustwit:Objectified is a documentary about industrial design…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Kiwis like blogging? - “One in 13 New Zealanders has a weblog? Some have more 1, 2, 3…”
From the CADDmanager blog: AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts - PDF - “You may want a Keyboard Shortcut list that is better formatted… Here is a PDF of the list…”
From the CADDmanager blog: AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts - “Here is a list of the shortcuts that can be used in AutoCAD (or ACA)…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: SIGGRAPH 2008 Stuff - “Read this even if you’re not going to be there…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: CAD Cartoon - “Cartoon…”
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: Building a Better World in GeoWeb 2008, Part 2 - “The search for wisdom in digital cityscapes…”
From CADCAM Insider: ALGOR V22 Upgrades All Areas Of FEA: Modeling, Simulation And Results - “PITTSBURGH, PA - July 23, 2008 - ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of design, analysis and simulation software, announced that its latest, major finite element analysis (FEA) software release, ALGOR V22…”
From CADCAM Insider: ASCON held Partnership Meeting and Seminar in Lindau - “ASCON Group, developer and integrator of award-winning Mechanical Computer-Aided Design Solution, 14th July 2008 held KOMPAS Seminar intended for partners and resellers from German-speaking countries…”
From CADCAM Insider: Autodesk Announces New Products to Help Utilities Improve Network Design and Management - “Autodesk Utility Design 2009 Software and Autodesk Topobase 2009 Software Help Utilities Enhance Efficiency and Data Quality…”
From CADCAM Insider: Autodesk Inventor 2009 for Designers Textbook - “CADCIM Technologies, a pioneer in the field of CAD/CAM textbooks, announces the release of Autodesk Inventor 2009 for Designers textbook by Prof…”
From CADCAM Insider: BOSS International launches new website - “July 22, 2008, Madison, Wisconsin - BOSS International, a developer of civil engineering hydrology and hydraulic software, announces the launch of its new website Tuesday…”
From CADCAM Insider: Chandavarkar and Thacker Architects Presented Autodesk Revit BIM Experience Award - “Firm Honored for BIM Leadership in India and Use of Revit Architecture for Complex Designs…”
From CADCAM Insider: Delcam’s PartMaker SwissCAM selected by Citizen as a preferred CAM system - “CADCAM developer Delcam has entered into a strategic partnership with Citizen Machinery, the world-leading builder of Swiss-type lathes, to encourage the use of the company’s PartMaker SwissCAM software by Citizen customers…”
From CADCAM Insider: GEOMATE Announces Tolerance Analysis Wizard for Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical - “San Jose, CA, July 23, 2008 - GEOMATE Company today announced the release of ToleranceCalc 6.0 tolerance analysis software seamlessly integrated within Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical applications…”
From CADCAM Insider: ITI Marks 25th Anniversary - “MILFORD, OH; JULY 28, 2008 - International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) will mark twenty five years in business in August, 2008. The company was founded in August 1983 by the late Dr. Jason “Jack” Lemon. Dr…”
From CADCAM Insider: New Version of solidThinking Industrial Design/Styling Software Launches Globally - “Proven Italian software accelerates concept development process, empowering creative community to invent, explore and fully evaluate ideas quickly and cost-effectively…”
From CADCAM Insider: Okino Ships New Version of PolyTrans for Adobe Director Xtra Plug-in System - “Newly Updated Plug-in System Allows Okino’s PolyTrans to Re-purpose All Major 3D CAD, DCC and VisSim File Formats into Adobe Director 3D Digital Assets…”
From CADCAM Insider: SPP Shipbuilding Uses AVEVA Marine and PLM Solutions - “KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 23/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - AVEVA (LSE:AVV), the leading supplier of engineering IT systems for the plant and marine industries, is proud to announce that Korean shipbuilder, SPP Shipbuilding…”
From CADCAM Insider: Sescoi to Launch Two New Products and Give Away Free Software at IMTS - “The 27th IMTS being held in Chicago on 8-13 September will be the venue for the U.S. launch of two new products from Sescoi…”
From CADCAM Insider: Specialty Publishing Co. Announces Merger of Two Industry-Leading Titles - “Carol Stream, Ill. - July 28, 2008 - Specialty Publishing Co…”
From CADCAM Insider: Thompson Couplings Uses Autodesk Inventor to Create Innovative New Coupling - “Digital Prototyping Key to Overcoming Challenge That Engineers Have Faced for 400 Years…”
From CADCAM Insider: Visual Computing Industry Leaders Line Up to Sponsor NVISION 08 - “Christie, EVGA, HP, Microsoft, and PNY Technologies Head Up Key Sponsorships of First-Ever Visual Computing Mega-Event…”
From Engineeringtalk: 3D model service tracks down the right product - “Advantech’s customers will be able to select the right product for their needs and then download 3D CAD models of the products into their designs…”
From Engineeringtalk: CFD software aids data centre cooling - “APC’s system allows the user to model a wide range of data centre configurations and distill the results into simple algorithms that predict cooling performance for typical data centre layouts…”
From Engineeringtalk: Pump repairs get power and water flowing again - “The Wrap module of Geomagic Studio eliminates time-consuming and labour-intensive surface reconstruction work by mathematically wrapping a polygonal surface around point cloud data…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software creates CAD models for custom vehicles - “DSSP involves the use scanning hardware and processing software to digitally capture physical objects and automatically create accurate 3D digital models…”
MORE FROM THE BLOGGERS
Worksharing/Worksets - Hardware Matching from the Revit OpEd blog
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