31 March 2009
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From WorldCAD Access: The Essential Reader: blink! - “blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell It was 1988. The record player had been repaired. The repair depot was just blocks away, and I walked home, carrying the $400 Denon turntable in my arms…”
From SolidSmack.com: 7 Bits o’ Fuctionality SolidWorks Could Add While Your Models Load - “Yes, you’re sitting waiting for a drawing to load again. You look out the pretend window you’ve drawn on the wall with a dull sharpie and sigh as you long to eat at that taco place your grandpa took you to years ago…”
From WorldCAD Access: Not Cancelled: ODA World Conference - “Unlike some other (canceled) conferences this year, the Open Design Alliance’s World Conference is still taking place in Leiden, The Netherlands, in a month’s time, April 27-29…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Developing CAD Standards - an Overall Plan - “Here is the process that I will be expanding upon as we continue the conversation on CAD Standards development. This will give you a high level look at where I will be going. Planning your work is essential to success…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Micromachining - Dancing on the Head of a Pin - “LOS ANGELES, CA (WESTEC), March 30, 2009 - The bright spot in this economy may be really, really small. To be precise, it is smaller than a thousandth of of an inch and goes by the name of micromachining…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Don’t Give Up - “See enough gloom and doom forecasts and you may feel like throwing in the towel. Seems like American Machinist has…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Selection updates - “CROSSING SELECTIONS You can no longer click twice on Selection to switch to the overlap (or ‘crossing’) metho…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Cadalyst AEC news: HP Z600 Workstation (First Look Review) - “New design is innovative, impressive, and superbly engineered…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: HP’s New Z Line: Breakthrough Workstation Technology - “At a launch event in L.A., company shows off landmark leaps in system design and performance and gives a sneak peek at SkyRoom web conferencing…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: Toolspace Settings 2 (CAD Clinic: Civil 3D Tutorial) - “When defining exceptions or needs for different values, Civil 3D uses the Edit Feature Settings dialog box at critical control points in the Settings tree…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: Convert Traditional Solid Edge Models to
Synchronous (On the Edge Solid Edge Tutorial) - “When defining exceptions or needs for different values, Civil 3D uses the Edit Feature Settings dialog box at critical control points in the Settings tree…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: I’ve Got Style. Do You Have Style? (Avatech Tricks Tutorial)
- “The Solid Edge Convert option allows users to convert traditional history-based models to Synchronous Technology…”
From Engineeringtalk: NEi adds 85 enhancements to NEi Nastran software - “NEi Software has released NEi Nastran V9.2, a major upgrade to its FEA solver for high-end finite element analysis (FEA)…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: HBM introduces P2V absolute pressure transmitter - “The P2V absolute pressure transmitter from HBM has been developed for general industry applications and benefits from a measuring range of 100bar to 5,000bar…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: HBM-Ncode releases Ice-flow Analysis 5.1 - “HBM-Ncode has released version 5.1 of Ice-flow Analysis, comprising Glyphworks and Designlife…”
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