6 May 2009
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From SolidSmack.com: Vuuch Product Review: Slapping Discussion Across the Face of Design - “If you had one thing to change about how you discussed design iterations, what would it be? I can imagine a few ways, starting with destroying useless email conversations and firing that one guy who can’t seem to do anything on his own…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: SolidWorks Spelling Check (who’s using it?) - “I recently conducted a small poll on SolidWorks Yahoo! Group asking who was using SolidWorks Spelling Check. To my surprize, almost half (so far) have never even hear of Spelling Check. Only 21% of respondents use Spelling Check regularly…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Evaluate Existing CAD Standards - “Most firms have some form of standard. Some may not have one, but I would think that there must be some shred of a standard at your office, even if it is old, outdated, and never used…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: How to I match my text sizes in mm and points? - “QUESTION We do a lot of work with our CAD files in Adobe InDesign and PhotoShop. We can never match the text sizes exactly as our CAD system works in mm but our DTP products use point…”
From the Solidworks Blog: Giving the customers what they don’t know they want - “There are days when I pinch myself for the fun I get to have. That happened again last Friday, when I got to spend the day at SolidWorks’ millionth-seat customer OGIO International…”
From WorldCAD Access: Free Medusa Downloads Incr. by 100%; Linux Popular - “CAD Schroer says its free MEDUSA4 Personal 2D/3D CAD software was downloaded 2x as often in Q1 as a year ago…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Mystery video: can you name it? - “Here is a truly ground-breaking video that wow’d just about anyone who saw it. Can you name what made it and when?…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Engineeringtalk: Cobham enhances Vector Fields Software tool - “Cobham has released a new version of its Vector Fields Software tool for designing rotating electrical machinery at CWIEME…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Cognex launches Dataman 200 - “Cognex has announced an addition to its Dataman family of ID readers…”
MORE FROM THE BLOGGERS
ANSYS and Autodesk get closer: from the COFES.com blog
Latest Versions of MicroStation from the Eat Your CAD blog
Ouch! PTC Trash-talks Dassault Systemes from WorldCAD Access
ALSO IN THE NEWS
Anark Becomes Adobe Partner from TenLinks
ANSYS CEO to Present at JP Morgan Conference from TenLinks
ANSYS Workbench Coupled with Ansoft HFSS from TenLinks
Autodesk Offers Industry Design Suites v2010 for Students from TenLinks
Autodesk Q1 Conference Call on May 21, 5PM ET from TenLinks
Chaos Releases Topocad Plan Module from TenLinks
ControlAir Selects CDS Catalog, ModelServer from TenLinks
CST Releases Antenna Magus Design Tool from TenLinks
Doug Woods to Lead Association for Manufacturing Technology from TenLinks
Engineered Software CEO Recognized for Pump Guidebook from TenLinks
ESPRIT 2009 at the Machinery and Electronics Exhibition Kanazawa, Japan, May 21-23, 2009 from MCADCafe
Fishbowl Offers CollabPoint Oracle UCM for Collaboration from TenLinks
GibbsCAM to Show 2009 v9.3 at EASTEC from TenLinks
GIE Media and MFG.com Survey Canvasses Manufacturing Industry from MCADCafe
GRAPHICS SYSTEMS ANNOUCES DESIGN ANALYSIS and CONSULTING DIVISION from MCADCafe
HarnessExpert GbR Accelerates 3D Display With HOOPS From Tech Soft 3D from MCADCafe
HarnessExpert GbR Using Tech Soft 3D HOOPS from TenLinks
Intergraph Ships SmartMarine 3D 2009 for Shipbuilding from TenLinks
IronCAD Donates $4.3M in Software to Brazil Schools from TenLinks
MAXON Releases CINEMA 4D R11 Service Update from TenLinks
Mechanical Solutions, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Energy Reduction and
Recovery Turbonetics and Foil Bearing Technologies from Foster-Miller
from MCADCafe
Nehalem Workstation Undercuts Dell, HP, Says BOXX pdf from TenLinks
Sage Timberline Supports Autodesk Quantity Takeoff 2010 from TenLinks
Solidtec to Sell SolidWorks in Australia from TenLinks
STEFISKO.com Ships SketchUp-AutoCAD Converter from TenLinks
Structure Studios Releases VizTerra Pro 3D Landscape Design from TenLinks
Swiss Vectorworks User Gets Pritzker Architecture Prize from TenLinks
ThreeDify Releases ActiveSolid v2.6.9 for MS Office from TenLinks
TopSolid 2009 Book Available from TenLinks
Virtual Design Enables a Revolutionary Flying Technology to Take off from MCADCafe