12 December 2008
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Derailer Yank - “When you tug on something that hard, something is bound to happen. It’s just odd that it happen to be that much bacon, a can of Sprite and these interesting links. 30 Inspiring Type Treatments - Cause I like typography and you should too…”
From WorldCAD Access: ODA to ADSK: Suspend Us, Too - “When Autodesk sued SolidWorks in civil court over a rectangle that was orange (and for other reasons), it suspended its don’t-use-”our”-DWG action against SolidWorks over at the US Patent and Trademark Office…”
From SolidSmack.com: Toy Manufacturers Will Die February 10, 2009 - “It’s time to get all activism on ya. Imagine just getting a seat of your favorite 3D CAD software with plans to create some sweet kids products…”
From WorldCAD Access: Review: DWG TrueView 2009 - “I’m marking the final exams of the class I taught this fall to first year surveying students learning AutoCAD for the first time…”
From the Brian, CADFanatic blog: New SolidWorks Survey: What’s New? How Do You Learn About New SolidWorks Features? - “SolidWorks has a new survey out. They are wanting to learn how users go about finding out about new features in new releases of SolidWorks…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Threading Options (Methods to make threads in SolidWorks) - “Reposted with permission of Dan J…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Cadalyst AEC news: AEC Tech News (#241) - “Companies Respond to Green Demand: Autodesk makes a splash and Bentley tests the water at Greenbuild Conference…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: Companies Respond to Green Building Demand - “Autodesk makes a splash and Bentley tests the water at Greenbuild Conference…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: Cadalyst
Announces Bimonthly Publication Schedule for 2009 - “Change in frequency from 12 to six annual issues will take effect with the January/February 2009 edition…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: AU 2008: Greening Las Vegas? - “This year’s Autodesk University in Sin City emphasized green, sustainable design and technologies…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: MCAD Tech News (#256) - “AU 2008: Greening Las Vegas? This year’s Autodesk University in Sin City emphasized green, sustainable design and technologies…”
From Engineeringtalk: Catia used in sailing speed record attempt - “Dassault Systemes (DS) has announced that l’Hydroptere will attempt to beat the outright sailing speed record with a pure speed version, redesigned and improved with DS’s Catia…”
From Engineeringtalk: Lattice updates XVL Player and Player Pro - “Lattice Technology has developed version 9.2 of XVL Player and XVL Player Pro…”
MORE FROM THE BLOGGERS
The Toilets Overflow - Autodesk Answers Back from the CAD Insider blog
Program for the Future honors Doug Engelbart and “The Mother of All Demos” - video of Alan Kay and Andy van Dam from the COFES.com blog
What’s the deal… from The Gear Box blog at Autodesk
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