5 November 2008
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From WorldCAD Access: ADSK: Yup, There’s a Recession - “Autodesk is releasing preliminary Q3 results early, and it doesn’t look good, with CFO Carl Bass saying:”The sharp downturn of the global economy is substantially impacting our business…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: CADFanatic’s Tips and Tricks Tuesday - An Easier Way To Mate - “Welcome to CADFanatic’s Tips and Tricks Tuesday! Hopefully, this will become a regular feature here on CADFanatic. Every Tuesday I plan to post a short tip or trick that will hopefully help you become more proficient with SolidWorks…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Difference of 30 Days - “Many firms start their fiscal year on 1 Jan; others (like upFront.eZine) start 1 Feb for tax purposes. But woe to those who thought delaying by one month was clever…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Do you add Value? - with Enthusiasm - “Let’s get moving!!! Come on - we can do this Don’t stop now - we are really close It will get better. All of these comments above come from the enthusiasm that can be generated by the CAD Manager…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: VAR mania (voting too) - “Happy American Election Day! No matter one’s politics, it’s always nice to at least pretend like we have a say in our government. I pretended via early absentee ballot a month ago…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Animated textures for computer widgets - “I was playing a video game…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: GIS Tech News (#69) - “GIS-GPS Device Proving Field-Worthy: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enlists the ike 504 to collect geographic coordinates from a distance…”
From Engineeringtalk: Advanced engineering helps develop Euro Coach - “Applied PLM Solutions has helped Euro Coach by applying advanced engineering to the development of the Euro Coach prototype…”
From Engineeringtalk: LMS introduces method solver for Virtual.Lab - “LMS has brought out a Fast Multipole BEM (Boundary Element Method) solver based on multipole expansion…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: IMO introduces Panel-Point - “IMO has released Panel-Point, a Windows-based SCADA package…”
MORE FROM THE BLOGGERS
Chagning Display Colors in AutoCAD from the CAD-a-Blog
On Executive Pay and the Bailout: from the COFES.com blog
The Reee(cycled) Chair. Palsticy Goodness Designed in SolidWorks from SolidSmack.com
ALSO IN THE NEWS
Cadac Group introduces Organice 2007 R4 from MCADCafe
CEI’s EnSight 9 Available Today from MCADCafe
EAC Product Development Solutions Honored as the Global PTC Windchill Partner of the Year from MCADCafe
Identify Market Opportunities in the PLM Software Industry With an Analysis by Geographic Region and Verticals from MCADCafe
Longview Advisors Publishes 2008 Collaboration and Interoperability Market Report from MCADCafe
New Portal Launched for the Mexican CAD/CAM Community from MCADCafe
Sybase Announces Availability of Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition for HP-UX and AIX Platforms from MCADCafe
ViewPlus Technologies Replaces Previous 3D CAD Solution with PTC CoCreate from MCADCafe
White paper Released on Improving Perceived quality While Optimizing New Product Development and Manufacturing Costs from MCADCafe