19 December 2008
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From the Eat Your CAD blog: MicroStation Wish List 2008 Update: VOTE NOW! - “The end of another year is apon us, and before we sign off until 2009, we thought we’d bring you the annual update to the MicroStation Wish List. Thank you to everyone who voted. We had well over 1000 responses this year…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Holiday Greetings - Snowflake Designer - “The firm I work for - HMC Architects - produced a sustainability focused Holiday Card. No paper copies were created. It takes you to our company holiday greeting site that has a link to design a snowflake…”
From WorldCAD Access: the doctrine of equitable estoppel - “The Free Dictionary tells me that the doctrine of equitable estoppel means that…”
From the Solidworks Blog: What do you want to know about SolidWorks World? - “Tomorrow I’ll be sitting down with Jeff Ray and Jon Hirschtick to record a joint interview for our SolidWorks World podcast series…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Cadalyst AEC news: CityEngine Now Available for Mac and Windows 64-bit - “Software includes examples cities and scenes, and city-layer editing functionalities…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Autodesk Prepares to Buy ALGOR - “Autodesk Inventor may finally get the FEA it deserves…”
From Engineeringtalk: Adept releases the USB-2404 range - “The USB-2404 range is targeted at applications requiring high-accuracy measurement repeatability and high throughput…”
From Engineeringtalk: FEA software analyses stresses in ship-building - “North American Shipbuilding (NAS) designs and builds offshore vessels for its parent company, Edison Chouest Offshore, (ECO) and affiliated companies…”
From Engineeringtalk: MIE Docs stores files in a virtual drive - “MIE Docs from MIE Solutions can be downloaded and used for free as a single-user licence…”
From Engineeringtalk: Solidworks speeds-up door-design in hurricane zone - “Lawson Industries is using Solidworks 3D CAD software and Solidworks Simulation software to design its Hurricane Guard product line…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Siemens IWLAN function hops to avoid interference - “The Siemens Industry Automation Division has expanded industrial wireless LAN (IWLAN) with the iHOP function, which it says guarantees reliable communication even with radio field interference…”
MORE FROM THE BLOGGERS
The Full MicroStation Wish List from the Eat Your CAD blog
Raw Material Library with Productstream and AutoCAD Mechanical Bill of Materials from the Under the Hood blog at Autodesk
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PTC Offers 3-Year Sponsorship to FIRST Robotics Program from TenLinks
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Rhino 4.0 SR5 Prerelease 1 Available for Rendering from TenLinks
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Roberto Francesco Wins CD-adapco 2009 CAE Calendar Contest from TenLinks
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ZWSOFT Releases ZWCAD 2009 Beta from TenLinks
ZWSOFT Unveils ZWCAD 2009 Beta from MCADCafe
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