From WorldCAD Access: CAD Insider: Autodesk
Takes Local User Group Off Life Support - “by Rooponder Tara, Tenlinks.com Autodesk’s headquarters are in San Rafael, CA, about 20 miles north of the Golden Gate bridge. San Rafael (pronounced san raFELL, not san RAFFYel) is in beautiful Marin County (pronounced maRIN not MARin)…”
From WorldCAD Access: ASCON plans on shipping
version 12 of KOMPAS endish-September - “Whenever I write about ASCON’s software, my fingers naturally type KOSMOS. Must be the result of growing up during the space race. ASCON today announces that it plans to ship KOSMOS KOMPAS-3D V12 in the second half of September…”
From SolidSmack.com: Paint A Rainbow On Your SolidWorks Assembly.
Multi-Colored Macro Follow-up - “A mere month ago we asked y’all how to go about slapping color across parts in SolidWorks. Unless you have a program to apply a random color to a part when you put it in an assembly, they all have the same curiously drab color…”
From WorldCAD Access: Multi-touch gestures
are just a warmup for multi-touch sentences - “It’s bad enough that Apple expect people to touch their trackpad with two fingers, because the thinking-differently company couldn’t be bothered splurging on two buttons. Three-finger swipe for this, four-fingers for that…”

From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Crisp Nibblers - “I use to say, ‘Toast it crispy and cover it with jam!’ about everything. It got to be annoying to some. Why, one day I woke up toasted to a fine crisp, covered with jam, being nibbled on by these here links…”
From SolidSmack.com: How To Convert Your PDF To AutoCAD DWG: For
Free - “There are times in our life when we stand behind a wall, peek around the corner and snicker at someone pulling dimensions off a PDF document to sketch out a part. The tears roll down their overworked cheeks…”
From SolidSmack.com: Watch Your Appendages. Robots Will Digest and Poo
You - “It just makes sense. Robots attack humans. Robots ingest humans. Robot digest humans. Robots excrete oily human remains. Chewin’ and pooin’ is what Ecobot III is all about. However, it doesn’t actually chew…”
From SolidSmack.com: Don’t Throw-up, You Now Have Two
Options for Online CAD Stores - “I know, I know. You get so giddy thinking about shopping, you just totally lose it. Then someone mentions shopping for CAD products, and you go completely nuts and lose control of your stomach juices…”
From SolidSmack.com: Siemens Slams SolidSmack with
Questions. This is What I Said - “A couple months ago I went to Siemens PLMConx Event. It was a magical time filled with magical talk about PLM, Solid Edge, NX, curling irons, highlight techniques and ways to deal with split ends…”
From WorldCAD Access: Navigating the MacBook’s
non-standard keyboard in ARES - “For Linux and Windows users, the QWERTY part of the MacBook is the same; your fingers, however, need to think different around the edges. Some keys have different meanings or are outright missing…”
From WorldCAD Access: Ray Kurland digs up
interesting stuff about DraftSight - “Ray Kurland interviews Aaron Kelly about DraftSight, and we learn these facts: DraftSight division has 24 employees and is expected to generate a profit Annual maintenance fee is $250 per user…”
From SolidSmack.com: Norton Cycles Revs the Commando 961
Redesign. Pro/E Gets it Done - “I know you’re busy strapping a flamethrower and Gatling gun to the front of your 1958 Norton Dominator, but stop, I say. STOP! Norton motorcycles has new and wonderful things in the works…”
From SolidSmack.com: Autodesk Slams CAD on the Mac OS X. Plus
AutoCAD for iPhone and iPad - “Well, blow my everloving mind out of the water. You won’t see the PR till Tuesday, but the New York Times just scooped the whole CAD industry on the news. AutoCAD for Apple Mac is here…”
From SolidSmack.com: The FoC Gaudi Chair. How the Future
of Design and Manufacturing is Being Shaped - “Occasionally, I’ll see some Antonio Gaudi architecture, and just start draping balls of strings and chains from everything, cover it with plaster and throw some shards of glass at it…”
From WorldCAD Access: Avatech likes reverse mergers - “Avatecvh Solutions has taken over Rand Worldwide to create the world’s largest AutoCAD dealer. Avatech originally became a public company by doing a reverse merger of PlanetCAD…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks 2011 Launch. 6 Day, 8 Hours, 3
Minutes and 30 seconds - “If you look at the image to the left (and the larger version after the jump) you’ll see a bunch of tiny people mulling about the large appendage like structure in front of them…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Buckle Your Bread - “Once you’re able to buckle the bread ends down sufficiently, it’s all a matter of how you apply the jelly. In this case, you’ll need a shovel, a big one, and these links…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Rationalising Rasters - “Raster files are often essential to producing project designs. They can, unless you are prepared, eat way more system resources than you might expect, reducing performance and in some cases, causing errors or crashes…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Autodesk Takes Local User Group Off Life Support - “Autodesk’s headquarters are in San Rafael, CA, about 20 miles north of the Golden Gate bridge. San Rafael (pronounced san raFELL, not san RAFFYel) is in beautiful Marin County (pronounced maRIN not MARin)…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: News: SolidWorks Job Network is back! - “‘Where can I find SolidWorks specific job listings?’ There was a time when one of the only answers to that question was SolidWorks Job NetWork. Many companies have posted jobs on this site over the year…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Hotels on KAYAK for San Antonio, TX SolidWorks World 2011 - “There’s a funny commercial from Priceline.com where William Shatner plays his own evil twin who tries to talk someone into booking through a website that is offering a sale by declaring, ‘it’s a sa-ell…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Book Review: Creating Animations with SolidWorks - “Creating animations with SolidWorks can be both fun and challenging. With the capabilities and options that SolidWorks now supports, making animations of models can fell like walking through a maze…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: The launch of SolidWorks 2011 is only days away - “The launch of SolidWorks 2011 is only days away. SolidWorks Corp even made this countdown website to celebrate the impending release. It isn’t obvious what will happen when the countdown is done…”
From WorldCAD Access: Twenty years on, Autodesk
rediscovers that Apple thing (Updated) - “Miguel Helft of The New York Times is reporting this evening what was pretty much an open secret. It was just the timing we weren’t sure about…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Managing from Two Steps Back - “CAD Managers have to work from a distance. They are not the ones creating and editing files and models. Others do that and the CAD Manager is removed from the direct process…”
From WorldCAD Access: Practicing FEA Without a License - “by Roopinder Tara, Tenlinks.com CAD companies are eager to put analysis in the hands of designers. It’s scaring me to death…”
From WorldCAD Access: First add-ons for ARES, Windows
now, Linux and Mac “soon” - “SYCODE is releasing its translators for Graebert’s new ARES CAD program - the first add-ons for ARES, as far as I know…”
From SolidSmack.com: ARES Commander. First 2D CAD on the Mac
Released. DraftSight Next? - “Deep outta the heart of Berlin, Germany comes news for the user who enjoys the planar bliss of X and Y coordinates…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: ClipX helps the Civil Guys - “Hello from Florida, I check regularly with your site and find it has been helpful on a number of fronts. I work in the Civil discipline, roadways plans to be exact…”
From WorldCAD Access: Google is promoting cloud
computing to power mobile phones - “At a press conference this morning, Google described its plans to hook up mobile phones to cloud computing…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Trusting Bentley Structural Quantities - “If you are having problems generating quantity reports inside of Bentley Structural, you may need to check Excel is allowing the spreadsheet macros to run…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Social Media Aided CAD - “Companies like Saleforce.com are changing the very nature of business communications by embedding social media technology within their products (Chatter)…”
From WorldCAD Access: Autodesk cutting prices early - “It’s not even Q4 and Autodesk is already cutting the price of its software through mail-in refunds…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Managing from One Step Back - “CAD Managers work in an environment where they can get their work done by taking a hands on approach. They do the actual work themselves…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: sf in bw - “On one of my trips to San Francisco, I set my camera’s mode to black-white…”
From the CADDmanager blog: The Mac is Back - AutoCAD on the Mac - “Autodesk has been working behind the scenes to create something that has not been around for some time… AutoCAD on a Mac…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: whooping it up - “My daughter and her friends jumping for joy at summer freedom…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: tiring train travel - “Photographed in Antwerp train station, Belgium, June 2009…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Practicing FEA Without a License - “CAD companies are eager to put analysis in the hands of designers. It’s scaring me to death…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: The Nillies - “That, my friend, is a mighty fine curd…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Where are the default mouse button assignments? - “QUESTION We have a user who is constantly resetting his mouse button assignment…”

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From Engineeringtalk: AST Bearings utilises CDS Catalog and Modelserver - “AST Bearings has launched its latest website incorporating products from Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) to present and aid online selection of products and CAD model downloads…”
From Engineeringtalk: Adept unveils Mathtype 6.7 for Windows - “Adept Scientific is offering Mathtype 6.7 for Windows from Design Science for use by educators, scientists and engineers to create papers and presentations with textbook-quality equations…”
From Engineeringtalk: Ansys resolves pre-prototype product design issues - “Ansys incorporates the fatigue capabilities of HBM’s nCode Designlife durability software, enabling mechanical engineers to address product life and durability issues before a prototype is built…”
From Engineeringtalk: CAD software helps increase clothing production - “Tukatech, a provider of apparel industry software solutions, has announced a software implementation as part of a partnership with US garment manufacturer and retailer American Apparel…”
From Engineeringtalk: EDA launches CAD software with DWG file format - “EDA Systems has launched the ZWCAD software, which is targeted at 2D/3D designers within the architecture, engineering and construction sectors who need full DWG native file format compatibility…”
From Engineeringtalk: Ignition SDK allows users to become module authors - “The Ignition Module Software Development Kit (SDK), which is available for free via Inductive Automation’s website, enables users of the company’s Ignition product to write their own modules…”
From Engineeringtalk: Lanner software enables mobile licence booking - “Lanner has included Reprise Licensing Manager as standard within its latest release of Witness Power with Ease 2.01, allowing licences to be booked out from a network licence onto a portable computer…”
From Engineeringtalk: NI releases Diadem software for data management - “National Instruments (NI) has announced the 2010 release of its data-management software for managing, analysing and reporting during data acquisition or when generating data through simulations…”
From Engineeringtalk: RMS allows quality control for reservoir modelling - “Emerson has released Roxar RMS 2010.1, which is said to add powerful seismic visualisation for improved decision making and quality control within Emerson’s reservoir modelling solution…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software preview enables product design simulation - “Autodesk has announced that Inventor Optimization is available for download from is website as a free technology preview, enabling users to perform digital simulation on their product designs…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software used to develop astronaut strength tester - “Spanish company NTE-Sener has used Solidworks software to develop a sophisticated system that tests the strength of astronauts in space in order to help combat muscle atrophy…”
From Engineeringtalk: Tools enable SAT file import for rapid prototyping - “Power Body Object Toolkit is a set of complimentary tools designed to improve workflow for customers importing SAT files into Autodesk’s 3ds Max for rendering, animation, or rapid prototyping…”
From Engineeringtalk: Virtalis - latest company news - “20 August 2010 - Virtalis has announced that it joined the Dassault Systemes Software Partner Community to gain access to Component Application Architecture Version 5…”
From Engineeringtalk: Visual communication tool targets aerospace sector - “Actify’s Spinfire 9.0, which will begin shipping in September, is an advanced visual communication tool for the automotive, aerospace, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing industries…”
From Engineeringtalk: ZWmech enables CAD design for engineering - “ASVIC has released ZWmech, an integrated engineering add-on for ZWCAD, which is said to provide CAD designers across a range of engineering sectors with an easy and efficient way of modelling…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Ansys resolves pre-prototype product design issues - “Ansys incorporates the fatigue capabilities of HBM’s nCode Designlife durability software, enabling mechanical engineers to address product life and durability issues before a prototype is built…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: CGTech to show Vericut software at aerospace event - “CGTech will demonstrate the 2010 Vericut Virtual Machining Gallery at this year’s Aero Engineering event, which is scheduled to be held at the NEC in Birmingham on 29-30 September…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: IDC barcode reader helps minimise maintenance - “IDC’s ZB111 wireless barcode reader is helping to minimise maintenance downtime and costs at the distribution centre of a global retailer that the company has recently automated…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: NI makes improvements to data management software - “National Instruments (NI) has announced the 2010 release of its data management software for managing, analysing and reporting during data acquisition or when generating data through simulations…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Stheno/Pro 5.0 for Pro/Engineer-centric companies - “CAD Schroer has released Version 5.0 of Stheno/Pro, targeted at any Pro/Engineer-centric company needing to integrate, edit, generate or maintain 2D drawings…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Virtual-reality system installed at CNH facility - “Agricultural and construction equipment company CNH is using an Activewall HD immersive visualisation suite from Virtalis at its facility in Zedelgem, Belgium, to conduct collaborative design reviews…”

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From the Eat Your CAD blog: Export RGB values from a colour table - “There are times when you may need to extract the RGB values from a Colour Table. A Colour Book is easy, you can just export to a .csv, but there is no option for this with a standard Colour Table…”
From SolidSmack.com: How To Really Create Vector
Graphics of Zombie Monkeys in SolidWorks - “I appreciate a good zombie monkey. They’re a rarity and usually make for better sport than other types of chronically drooling, undead monkeys…”

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From Engineeringtalk: Software calculates and plots foundation depths - “EDA Systems has announced the release of EDA Foundation for ZWCAD, which allows users to easily calculate and plot foundation depths according to NHBC 4.2 specifications…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software records tree-schedule information - “EDA Systems has released EDA Arboricultural for ZWCAD, which enables information from BS5837 tree schedules to be quickly and accurately recorded onto the Site Survey CAD drawing…”
From Engineeringtalk: Toolkit grants product data access to ERP vendors - “CCE has announced an update to its Oceans SDK software development toolkit that provides support for the latest versions of Catia V5 R20, NX 7.5 and Solid Edge ST2 formats…”
From Engineeringtalk: Turbomatch enables compressor and turbine design - “Concepts NREC’s Turbomatch is said to be the first commercially available software that allows advanced compressor and turbine design as part of an overall engine system…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: MBE uses Delcam’s Powershape design software - “Delcam’s Powershape design software is helping MBE Cylinder Heads and Manifolds, which supplies equipment for race teams and engine builders, to achieve both precision and power…”

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Alibre Wins Maker Faire “Editor’s Choice Award” 2010 from MCADCafe
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EON Reality Adds Value to EON Coliseum by Releasing the Aerospace Content Pack from MCADCafe
Hydrometer GmbH Selects Aras PLM Software for Enterprise Product and Project Management from MCADCafe
IMSI/Design To Offer MecSoft’s 3D CAM Solutions For TurboCAD from MCADCafe
Intergraph CADWorx Webinar to Discuss Piping Rules and Subassembly Palette in CADWorx 2011 from MCADCafe
Progression Technologies becomes Reseller for InspectionXpert and Office2PDM from MCADCafe
STHENO/PRO release 5 - dynamic drafting for Pro/ENGINEER environments from MCADCafe

From WorldCAD Access: Greabert wins! First to ship
AutoCAD-compatible CAD for Mac - “Bricsys of Belgium, Graebert of Germany, and a third, unnamed CAD vendor (of another country) were in a multi-year race to see who would ship the Mac version of their AutoCAD-compatible software first. Today, Graebert won…”
From WorldCAD Access: New this week in the upFront.eZine: - “In this week’s issue of upFront.eZine: 1. CivilB Models Roadways with Surfaces 2. PTC Purposely Vague on Project Lightning Plus lots more letters from readers about the suitability of iPads and Macs…”
From WorldCAD Access: For Windows and Linux users:
how to install (ARES) Mac software - “Windows has a messy variety of ways to install software. Linux has its rigorous method. And OS X has yet another method, one that initially will seem quite foreign to Windows and Linux users…”
From WorldCAD Access: Printing wth ARES for Macintosh - “In my previous post, I mentioned that the plot dialog box in ARES for Mac is quite different from the Windows version. At first, I had no idea what was going on, but then figured it out…”

From the CADDmanager blog: CAD Manager Job Description - “I wrote this some time ago and I am reposting it. I am in the process of writing an updated Job Description and will post that at some point…”

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Alibre Wins Maker Fair “Editor’s Choice Award’ 2010 from MCADCafe
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MACH highlight videos now on Delcam.TV from MCADCafe
PTC to Speak at 2 Investor Conferences in August from MCADCafe
Two new 3DCS versions offer industry-leading ease-of-use enhancements from MCADCafe

From SolidSmack.com: 3
DVia Billions and 3DVia Studio. The Mafia will Die. The Farm will Burn. You will
3D Print from Facebook - “I hate Facebook games. Hate. them. Too the point I feel like butchering a hog over someone’s keyboard as they get a Crop Whisperer ribbon on Farmville. Those feelings may change…. I doubt it, but this… is cool…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Spring 2010 Edition of AUGI AEC Edge Now Available -”AUGI AEC Edge, AUGI’s newest publication dedicated to the AEC industry, has a brand new edition ready for download. This feature-packed issue delivers a long list of articles spanning nearly every discipline of the AEC industry…”
From SolidSmack.com: DoubleCAD XT Just Might Be A Free 3D
File Conversion Beast - “Sometimes when you’re weeding through your co-workers file drawers, you’ll come across a thumb-drive with all sorts of interesting files on them…”

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From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Exfo modules enables transport-network testing - “Exfo’s Power Blazer Multiservice Test Modules provide customers with a high level of integration to meet their multiservice transport-network testing needs…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: NI launches multifunction DAQ devices for USB - “National Instruments (NI) has launched NI X Series multifunction data-acquisition (DAQ) devices for USB, which can be used for a variety of portable test, measurement and data-logging applications…”

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SolidWorks: 70% Innovative Companies Use It from MCADCafe
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From WorldCAD Access: What I like about the MacBook - “After venting my fury at the MacBook’s hardware design failings, I should admit that there are things that I do like about it. Here is the complete list: 1. It is utterly silent…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: hard work
in the streetside kitchen - “This crepes restaurant is open to passers-by on the street. It has proved popular, wtih line ups forming and the harried staff hurrying…”
From WorldCAD Access: Solutions to Mac problems - “Readers are submitting solutions to the problems I found with the MacBook and its OS X software. Thank you for those…”

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From Engineeringtalk: Jetter to demonstrate mobile automation software - “Jetter will exhibit hardware and software solutions for mobile automation in construction machinery, agricultural machines, fire trucks, municipal and railway vehicles at IAA in Hannover…”

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Longview Advisors Announces 2010 Collaboration and Interoperability Industry Survey from MCADCafe

From SolidSmack.com: Model Your Wicked Cool Organic Design in
T-Splines, Win an iPad - “BEEEEHOLD!!! Oh, ouch! Ok, muscles have tensed cracking most of the bones in my upper torso, but… (deep breath) No worries, because the endorphins are kicking in and some good ol’ modeling fun approacheth. T-Splines is holding a contest…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Apple hardware
and OS X software: How dreadful they are (part i) - “I recall being surprised when I “upgraded” from a 1996 Chrysler mini-van to a 2002 Honda mini-van. The Chrysler was just about bottom of the line; I had to pay extra for the cassette player and cruise control…”
From SolidSmack.com: You Will Be a Product Development DJ with
This Table - “Actually, who cares about product development at this point. You’ll be the DJ, up in the front of your office as people tear off their blazers and patent leather loafers…”
From the CADDmanager blog: The CAD Manager at Work - Decisional
Roles - “In ‘the Nature of Managerial Work’ (1980), Henry Mintzberg outline the Ten Roles of a manager. He continues to write and released ‘Managing’ in 2009. I attempt here to apply these roles to the CAD Manager…”

From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Curb Slurper - “Tumbled! I don’t like it! It reeks of peach juice and looks like a muffled badger strung out on battery acid…”

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From WorldCAD Access: Experiencing CAD on the Mac - “Several CAD vendors are on the verge of releasing the OS X version of their software for the Macintosh line of personal computers, and I’ve been able to try out some of them on a new acquired MacBook…”
From the CADDmanager blog: The CAD Manager at Work -
Decisional Roles - “In ‘the Nature of Managerial Work’ (1980), Henry Mintzberg outline the Ten Roles of a manager. He continues to write and released ‘Managing’ in 2009. I attempt here to apply these roles to the CAD Manager…”

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From Engineeringtalk: Design Data Manager streamlines plant processes - “Bioquell, a provider of bio-decontamination technologies, has invested in Concurrent’s Design Data Manager (DDM), in order to further streamline its processes and manage complex data structures…”
From Engineeringtalk: Simulation software helps improve vehicle quality - “Icona Solutions has announced that automobile company Fiat is to implement its Aesthetica simulation and visualisation software as part of its plans to improve the perceived quality of its vehicles…”
From Engineeringtalk: Wilde Analysis - latest company news - “5 August 2010 - Wilde FEA has been renamed Wilde Analysis and combines FEA, CFD and reliability-engineering activities to provide an integrated analysis solution…”
From Engineeringtalk: Wilde attends M3-2S project review in China - “Dr Simon Leefe from Wilde attended the mid-term review of the M3-2S project - funded under the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 - in June at the Harbin Institute of Technology…”
From Engineeringtalk: Wilde to offer software for injection moulding - “Autodesk has appointed Wilde as the exclusive reseller of Insight software in the UK and Ireland, enabling it to offer tailored analysis solutions to the plastic injection-moulding sector…”

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Interpersonal Roles - “In ‘the Nature of Managerial Work’ (1980), Henry Mintzberg outline the Ten Roles of a manager. These ten roles have been applied in many ways to many differing titles within an organization…”
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From WorldCAD Access: Getting busses out of the way of cars - “One of the many problems with public transportation is that it gets in the way of private vehicles, the ones whose taxes pay for the roads and subsidize the buses, street cars, and trams…”
From SolidSmack.com: Burn Ignite. Relating
Skateboarding to Product Design and Engineering - “I could seriously watch this video over and over again… In fact, I have. So much so, I caught fire myself and had to be doused with a potted plant from the kitchen…”
From WorldCAD Access: New this week in
your upFront.eZine: configuring parts on the cloud - “In this week’s issue of upFront.eZine: 1. SpaceClaim 2010 - Bid Modeling for Sales Engineers - Lean Product Development - New in SpaceClaim 2010 2…”
From WorldCAD Access: Can you make your hockey stick bigger
than PTC’s hockey stick? - “Here’s some more of that special love language financial analysts use during conference calls with executives of publicly-held CAD companies…”

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From Engineeringtalk: Package helps IT managers to improve efficiency - “Rittal’s Rizone management software combined with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) can help data centres to achieve energy savings and improve business efficiency…”
From Engineeringtalk: Service gives CAD users access to Optitex products - “The Optitex Help service gives those interested in Optitex solutions unlimited access to the company’s knowledge base and technical information regarding the available products and services…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Gemba OEE software enables detailed data analysis - “Gemba Solutions has upgraded its Lean Impact Online OEE software to provide a more flexible and detailed approach to data analysis and reporting…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Plantpax allows cross-process communication - “Rockwell Automation offers solutions to help improve the functional operation of machines, helping to increase safety, efficiency and productivity while reducing waste…”

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