7 May 2009

Chris Rand, Editor

TOP BLOG POSTS

From SolidSmack.com: The MDS Robot: It’s So Dang Cute, But it Could Probably Tear Your Face Off - “This is how it all ends, my friends. They pull us in with their human-like emotions and then crush our wills to live… and also maybe our faces…”
From WorldCAD Access: No Slowdown for ANSYS: Q1 Up 11% - “Ansys is reporting today that its Q1 revenues were $121.4 million - up 10.8% from a year ago. Net income was $34.5 million, up 6%…”
From WorldCAD Access: Obama to USA (CAD) Multinationals: Make Less Profit - “American CAD software companies will be at a disadvantage if current US president Obama gets his wish…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Rendering Materials 101: What’s new in V8i - “LOCAL MATERIALS By default, all palettes and their materials are stored locally in the DGN. Materials can also be stored in dgnlib…”

TOP NEWS STORIES

From Cadalyst CAD Management news: The Tao of CAD and GIS - “Now in beta testing, a new on-demand viewing and markup tool lets users collaborate on a file simultaneously…”
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: GIS Tech News (#81) - “The Tao of CAD and GIS: Now in beta testing, a new on-demand viewing and markup tool lets users collaborate on a file simultaneously…”
From Engineeringtalk: Controlair selects CDS Catalog and Modelserver - “Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) has announced that Controlair has selected its CDS Catalog product for parametric product search, and its CDS Modelserver product for CAD downloads…”

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