26 September 2008
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks World 2009. Save Some CASH, Hit Disney World - “Going to SolidWorks World 2009? Oh, you haven’t decided yet. We’ll maybe this will convince you to drag yourself and your vacation starved family down for a nice little jaunt across Mickey’s organically fertilized law…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Hammer Naught - “The rotation doesn’t matter so much as the face you’re making during the rotation. That look, my friend, is absolutely stunning. Sure to strike fear into the hearts of onlookers and these link…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Autodesk has no trademark on DWG? - “Autodesk has recently filed a lawsuit against Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp (DS SolidWorks) for trademark infringement of its use of the letters DWG in the name of product, websites, application within marketing material, etc…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks. AutoDesk. That’s My TradeMark, Not Yours - “This little orange square is raising all sorts of mean looks and a hefty lawsuit from AutoDesk to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks along with a list of other alleged misdee…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: Discounted Disney Tickets Available While At SolidWorks World 2009! - “If you are attending SolidWorks World 2009 in Orlando, Florida, this next February and were planning on visiting DisneyWorld or some of the other attractions in the area…”
From WorldCAD Access: Adsk vs SW: Comments - “Some commenters are calling this law suit ’silly’ (or worse; I’ve not posted some due to their extreme derogatory tone)…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #80: ‘Custom PDF Templates’ - “If you have ever wanted to publish Composer content to a PDF, and wanted to change the look of the resulting PDF fil…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Somewhat Odd SolidWorks Installation Guide of Doom: and Sutff - “Liste…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Cadalyst AEC news: AEC Tech News (#236) - “Bridging the CAD Deliverables Gap: Electronic documentation must serve different purposes for building owners and CAD contractors…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: Bridging the CAD Deliverables Gap with Your Client - “Electronic documentation must serve different purposes for building owners and CAD contractors…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: ACUSI
M’s AcuSolve Supports Windows HPC Server 2008 - “Software provides CAE users with a CFD solution in Windows HPC environment…”
From Engineeringtalk: Vistagy teams up with CGTech - “Vistagy has joined CGTech to combine its Fibersim with CGTech’s Vericut composite programming and simulation suite (VCP) to develop structures produced by automated fibre placement (AFP) machines…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: BAE Systems selects Infor management tools - “Infor has announced that the South Africa business of BAE Systems, Land Systems OMC, has chosen an enterprise resource planning and product lifecycle management solution…”
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