From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Churnly - “Deciphering the patterns of yellow flowers and whirring things was all but he he had known. On this day, however, he discovered, not a pattern, but power over the things which whir themselves. He discovered, these links…”
From WorldCAD Access: Bricscad
v11.3.1-1 has a tiny increment number for so many big changes - “Bricsys today posted Bricscad beta version 11.3.1 that updates v11.2.9…”
Delcam’s FeatureCAM helps Renishaw turn designers into machinists from MCADCafe
Dr. Ajei S. Gopal Named to ANSYS Board of Directors (ANSYS) from MCADCafe
KeyShot 2.2: New version of interactive 3D rendering software available from MCADCafe
From SolidSmack.com: Direct vs Parametric: What Do the
Users Have to Say? - “Sometimes when the sun is shining and there’s a light, misty acid in that air… you run screaming, jump into a barrel with your friends and push yourselves down a hill to escape the skin melt…”
From SolidSmack.com: Learn How to Import Your Messy, Messy 3D Data: for
Free - “If you can believe it, there’s a webinar this week. I’m usually not one for webinars, as the word ‘webinar’ itself reminds me gagging on pen caps after drinking milk…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Intense Orange Sweetness of Ian McElroy’s Kickboxer
Diesel Moto - “You may have seen Ian’s Kickboxer which boasts a race-ready Turbocharged 2.5L Subaru WRX engine. I so thought that was the sweetest looking ride…”
From Engineeringtalk: ITI to participate in Modelica Conference - “ITI has announced its participation in the 8th International Modelica Conference from 20-22 March 2011 in Dresden, Germany…”
Compatibility of Autodesk software with Windows 7 SP1 from CAD Forum Tips
Some viewports do not fit the right zoom conditions from CAD Forum Tips
IFS Study Reveals ERP Fails to Keep Pace with Mixed-Mode Manufacturing from MCADCafe
Inaugural Hexagon 2011 International Conference from MCADCafe
KeyCreator 2011 Released from MCADCafe
Latest developments in WorkNC Dental automated CADCAM at LMT Lab Day, Chicago from MCADCafe
Research and Markets: Industrial Robotics - Global Strategic Business Report Profiles Companies with Forecasts To 2015 from MCADCafe
Roland Expands Dental Milling Line with the New 5-Axis DWX-50 from MCADCafe
Sopheon Taps Business Leader and Product Development Executive Gert Staal to Head European Operations from MCADCafe
ZWCAD Software America Inc. to Showcase ZW3D at Design and Manufacturing South 2011 from MCADCafe
From Engineeringtalk: Aras to present at NATO Configuration Symposium - “Aras has announced that the company will present at the NATO Configuration Management Symposium…”
From Engineeringtalk: CGTech to demonstrate upgraded Vericut software - “CGTech will present Version 7.1 of its Vericut CNC machine simulation software on Stand 1,647 at the Midlands Design and Engineering Show at the NEC in Birmingham on 6-7 April 2011…”
From Engineeringtalk: PD sells Concepts NREC’s turbomachinery products - “Concepts NREC, a manufacturer of turbomachinery, has made PD Solutions a concepts channel partner (CCP), with the latter company providing software, support and training in Southeast Asia…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Exlar offers Ethernet-based communication protocol - “Exlar has announced the newest Ethernet-based communications protocol supported by the company’s Tritex II linear and rotary actuators - Modbus TCP/IP…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Mail Suite processes variable data print jobs - “Objectif Lune has announced the release of version 7.1 of Printshop Mail Suite, which was initially created to solve the production speed issues surrounding high-volume mail merge…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: RFID readers can be used for animal identification - “GAO RFID’s series of RFID readers can be used for animal identification and management, as well as logistics, field service, personnel tracking and event management…”
How to write line-feed to a text file in AutoLISP from CAD Forum Tips
My DesignCenter palette no longer displays the DC Online tab from CAD Forum Tips
Autodesk releases AutoCAD WS 1.2 - Import Inventor Files from
the CAD-a-Blog
DraftSight images from the Solidworks Legion blog
Autodesk Expands AutoCAD WS, Adds Support for Multiple Languages and Inventor DWG from MCADCafe
CIMdata Inc. Announces Next PLM Certificate Program from MCADCafe
Delcam’s FeatureCAM helps Renishaw turn designers into machinists from MCADCafe
GibbsCAM to be Exhibited at National, Four-Day Manufacturing for Growth Forum Produced by AMT, AMTDA, NTMA and PMA from MCADCafe
MCADCafe.com’s VideoNews Brings Depth and Clarity to Press Releases from MCADCafe
Presto Engineering Becomes Member of LaMIPS from MCADCafe
Right Hemisphere and Digabit Partner to Deliver Integrated, Secure, Web Enabled 3D Content Solutions from MCADCafe
SAMTECH to present new SAMCEF for Wind Turbines release at EWEA 2011 from MCADCafe
SME Honors Loyal Member with the 2011 Award of Merit from MCADCafe
From WorldCAD Access: The
Vleeschhouwer Report: Interesting bits from Adobe Systems’s 2010 10-K - “by Jay Vleeschhouwer The following are several items from the 144-page 2010 10-K report that seemed interesting or incremental. The Adobe text is in italics followed by some of my comments on the text. Creative Solutions…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Vleeschhouwer Report:
The State of SolidWorks for 2011 - “by Jay Vleeschhouwer Dassault Systemes’ SolidWorks, the company’s second-largest brand in terms of revenues, held its annual SolidWorks World conference for users, resellers, third-party developers, and other partners…”
From WorldCAD Access: I
n upFront.eZine this week: BIM is great for CAD vendors, but how about for
architects? - “In this week’s upFront.eZine, we have for you… 1. BIM is Mainstream; Are Architects Better Off? Guest Editorial by Mark Chaney 2. Understanding Hybrid Workflows between CAD and BIM Part 2: Practical Applications 3…”
From SolidSmack.com: 3D Printing, Your Days Are
Numbered. Lexus Uses 3D Loom to Weave the LFA - “You’ve tried to warn your children, your pets, your boss’ thumb that pops up over the cubicle wall and whispers movie quotes to you in a raspy voice. Screaming doesn’t help. Nevertheless, it’s happening…”
From WorldCAD Access: In upFront.eZine this
week: What PCT tells Wall Street about Creo - “In this week’s upFront.eZine, we have for you… 1. PTC Talks About Creo to Financial Analysts - Litigation Settled 2. Understanding Hybrid Workflows between CAD and BIM Part 2: Practical Applications 3…”
From SolidSmack.com: Survey Says! The
Future of Engineering Software Will be Consumed by Beetle Larvae - “Unfortunately, ‘beetle larvae’ is not an option you will see in this survey. You could add that answer, but then you would likely disrupt the most serious survey in all the world of engineering software…”
From WorldCAD Access: Updated eBook: Learning Bricscad V11
in 7 hours - “Now available as a n new 220-page PDF ebook for just $20: 1. Go to www.upfrontezine.com/lb8 2. Choose the edition you prefer: Bricscad V11 Bricscad V10 Bricscad V9 Bricscad V8 3. Purchase through PayPal…”
From WorldCAD Access: In upFront.eZine this week: bim, Bim, BIM -”In this week’s upFront.eZine, we have for you… 1. bim, Bim, BIM Readers respond 2. And in Other News You can read all about the business of CAD this week at www.upfrontezine.com/2011/upf-679.htm…”
From WorldCAD Access: I’m wondering how long
it takes for CAD sw to catch up with games - “Josh Mingus Fungus reminded me that Autodesk’s new software for kids, Tinkerbox, is an awful lot like The Incredible Machine. This game, which came out in 1992, was a favorite of mine and my son…”
From SolidSmack.com: Free Sheet Full of Sweet modo 501 Keyboard
Shortcuts - “How do you keep from bashing the keyboard against your skull out of frustration with modo commands? Simple. A modo 501 keyboard shortcut guide. It’s all the rage with the modo kids these days…”
From SolidSmack.com: Get Your Laser-Cuttin’ On with Ponoko Project
Guides - “If you ever go ridding a horse bareback through plate glass windows, you may often wonder how to reduce the amount of scarring by attaching a thin acrylic shield around yourself and the horse…”
From SolidSmack.com: A Light Design with Light Coming from
Nothing? See to Believe - “I’m sure you’ve stood alone in a dark room, with silence as thick as the black crawling over you. Then screaming… and pies. Thousands of pies. But where are they coming from? No one knows…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Gracklemot - “The land lay fallow. Plagued by the whispy tinkering of ancient cycloid ratonechs and the pale, slightly aggressive land lashings of a pine-back platypus swarm, all seemed lost. Then hope…”
From WorldCAD Access: The battle over “.dwg” ends next week, Thursday
- “There are a few strange stories that haunt the history of CAD, and one of them is Autodesk’s attempt to register the “.dwg” file extension as a trademark in the USA and other countries…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: toilet, west coast
style - “Toilet near the beach at Pacific Rim National Park (BC, Canada), but we all call it Long Beach. Travel tip: no need to pay the National Park Pass fee when camping at this national park…”
From SolidSmack.com: How to Kill All Previous Revision on a
SolidWorks Drawing - “It’s dark. The air trembles with the hum of an endless printing cycle. The lights flicker, the printer stops and the toothless document clerk looks up and smiles a bone-chilling smile…”
From WorldCAD Access: In upFront.eZine this week: This is where Dassault Systemes is going; also,
SpaceClaim 2011 - “In this week’s upFront.eZine, we have for you… 1. SpaceClaim 2011 Interview with co-founder Blake Couter 2. This is Where Dassault Systemes is Going Bernard Charles talks strategy 3…”
From WorldCAD Access: Jeff Ray: A Gentleman Walks Off the
Stage - “by Roopinder Tara, Tenlinks.com Jeff Ray introduced the new CEO in front of thousands gathered in San Antonio, Texas, at SolidWorks’ big annual bash. Until recently, Jeff had been CEO…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: SWUGN reaches 200 - “Richard Doyle announced today that the number of SolidWorks User Groups in the SolidWorks User Group Network (SWUGN) has reached 200 worldwide. His announcement may be found on the SolidWorks Community Blog in the SolidWorks Forum…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Third Karnaphuli Bridge - by HPR - “AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (Bentley Be Inspired Conference), Oct 28 2010 - Cable stayed bridges, and their many variants, seem to be all the rage, having supplanted the even more graceful suspension bridges as the bridge of choice…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Mind-Creasing Paper Art Intensity of Matt
Shlian - “What’s a Paper Engineer? Only the most pulp-tastic job on the planet, that’s what. Basically, it combines the art of paper folding and the mathematical precision of awesomeness…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGI.com online…and so are the old forums! - “The website has been restored with the “old” vBulletin forum system as well. Close to 1million posts are back, exactly where they were, and any and all posts referencing them since the beginning in 2003 should hit their mark…”
From SolidSmack.com: The HTC Flyer. Best Tablet for
Mobile Design? Whatcha Think? - “Well, there’s been plenty of on-the-go excitement coming out of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week… who am I kidding. It’s mostly been tablet this and tablet that…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Point and Shoot Rendering - “THE BASICS In order to produce a quick, high-quality rendered image in MicroStation V8i, you should follow the steps below. In all cases, the more time you spend tweaking the settings, the better the results will b…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Jeff Ray: A Gentleman Walks Off the Stage - “Jeff Ray introduced the new CEO in front of thousands gathered in San Antonio, Texas, at SolidWorks’ big annual bash. Until recently, Jeff had been CEO. This was the last time Jeff would address the users this way…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: The Dim Hallow - “Once upon a dim lit night, when owl fowls hoot their silent flight. The children stomp in the land that sinks, telling tale upon tale bout the fate of these links…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: What is this crazy Post3D thing? - “Post3D (formerly called 3DVIA Scenes or SolidWorks Design Center) is Second Life for SolidWorks users. It provides an interesting way to communicate files and concepts in 3D through an immersive online experienc…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Hiding References - “There are many ways to hide parts of your drawing. Remember that the display of elements can be slightly different between MicroStation and AutoCAD, so for checking, drawings should always be opened in AutoCAD…”
From SolidSmack.com: 3D Modeling with Your Hands. Your
Shoulders Will Be Huge - “Like you, there’s one thing I’ve always wanted… massive freaking shoulders. That, and a chest cavity deep enough for dips. The first may not be so far off…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Get Real - Proto Labs One Off Parts Made with Actual Engineering Materials - “ANAHEIM, CA (Pacific Design and Manufacturing Show), Feb 7, 2011 - Though 3D printers are all the rage - and took up a lot of floor space at the Pacific Design Show, they are not without their limitations…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Out of Thick Air - Water from Fog - “AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (Bentley Be Inspired Conference) - If you’ve heard of Namibia, you may be into diamonds. South Africa’s neighbor to the north, Namibia, is a great source of gem quality diamonds…”
From WorldCAD Access: PTC interviews PTC on Creo for iOS - “PTC runs a Weblog for the so-far-unreleased Creo software, and today they posted a coy interview with themselves over Creo running on non-Windows devices…”
From WorldCAD Access: DraftSight finally is a
real product, as of 7:00am Paris time - “The 400,000 who downloaded DraftSight since June may be surprised to learn it wasn’t ready. Well, it was beta, and now the Windows version no longer is…”
From the CAD Insider blog: GreenBuild 2010 - Pt 2: Autodesk - “by Ed Goldberg AIA, NCARB CHICAGO, IL (Greenbuild 2010 Int’l Conference and Expo) - I am constantly amazed at Autodesk’s ability to create new products from its existing portfolio of existing software…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: January 2010 - “We hope you had a fantastic xmas break and that it isn’t so far in the distant past that you can’t recall the highlights (perhaps some of you can look down and see the highlights around your midriff?)…”
From SolidSmack.com: Lycra Snappin’ Bike Clamp, Bottle Opener
Concept from Swarm - “Set down those bottled brews. Really, stop prying them against your dear friends collar bone. There’s a better way to pop the top then hop on your ride…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Mythical Specifications: Non-accumulative tolerance - “Mythical specifications come in many forms. One realm they seem to haunt is that of repetitive features, also known as patterns. Many attempts to short-hand pattern callouts are continuously mad…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: keeping an eye
on your shopping - “An apartment block and a security camera on the Vaci Utca (Vaci street), Budapest’s famous pedestrian shopping street. Photo taken December, 2000…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AU
GI Forum Status Update - “AUGI and Illiac have reached agreement for the transference of AUGI data. The agreement was signed by all parties late Monday and includes a mutually agreed timeline for exchange of the data…”
From the CAD Insider blog: PTC Reinvents Itself with Creo - “PTC had been promising something really big for a few months. As a couple of hundred people sat in anticipation, klaxons go off and convicts in orange jumpsuits invade the packed room…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Trelligence, IES Announce Partnership at Greenbuild - “by Ed Goldberg AIA, NCARB CHICAGO, IL (Greenbuild 2010 Int’l Conference and Expo) - Trelligence Inc. and Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) announced a partnership at Greebuild…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: How to dimension feature patterns on drawings - “A couple of days ago, I briefly covered the mythical specification ‘non-accumulative tolerance’ (or ‘non-cumulative’) as it is often applied to direct dimensions on feature pattern…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Nose Bleed of Free SolidWorks
Tutorials Just Won’t Stop - “Careful with that sharp putty knife. You don’t want to jab a main artery, grape salad or nostril as you read this. Oh! too late…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Autocad - Annotative Scales - “WHAT IS IT? Annotative scaling is the process in which you select a scale for a drawing and all the annotative text, dimensions, blocks and hatches change to reflect the scal…”
From the CAD Insider blog: GreenBuild 2010 - Pt 1 - “by Ed Goldberg AIA, NCARB CHICAGO, IL (Greenbuild 2010 Int’l Conference and Expo) - While attending Autodesk University last year, I kept hearing about GreenBuild…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Can you swap one image for another in Raster Manager? - “QUESTION Can you swap one image for another in Raster Manager, keeping all the same settings, such as scale, file position, clipping, etc? ANSWER Yes you ca…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: ACS keyins - “As ACSs become more entrenched in MicroStation’s base operation, it can be necessary to set an ACS and/or turn on/off the ACS Lock in multiple files…”
From WorldCAD Access: We love analysts for the incomprehensible stuff they say… - “My favorite lines from last week’s PTC conference call with financial analysts: “And last question…”
From WorldCAD Access: Get
Real: Proto Labs’ one-off parts are made with actual engineering materials -”by Roopinder Tara, Tenlinks.com I’m at the Pacific Design and Manufacturing Show in Anaheim CA…”
From the CAD Insider blog: SolidWorks CEO is French But It’s Not What You Think - “Conspiracy theorists will delight in viewing Bertrand Sicot’s ascension to CEO of SolidWorks as Dassault’s maneuver to install one of their own…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGI.com Offline - “AUGI has placed our main site in maintenance mode to enable the restoration of our prior forums at some time on Monday, Jan 10th, 2010 EST US…”
From SolidSmack.com: Free Audi TT SolidWorks Video Tutorial: In 26
Parts - “What’s better than being beat with the rough edge of a 3D printed car door? Many things…”
From WorldCAD Access: When executives grant
interviews and then sidestep questions - “If you can’t comment, then why grant an interview? Engadget: Your new CEO, Leo Apotheker…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: hungarian telephone
system - “I took this photo in one of the subway entrances in Budapest, Hungary, in December, 2000…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Flattening Dynamic Views - “PRODUCING A “STATIC” DRAWING: In an architectural office, one of the problems with adopting Dynamic Views has been that they are dynami…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: The New and Improved
AUGIWorld magazine - Now available for download and online! - “AUGI is pleased to announce that the latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download via PDF and online via digital edition…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: a lamb’s look - “I took this photograph of a new lamb on Galiano Island (BC, Canada) in March, 2001…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: February 2011 - “We’ve been keeping an eye on the articles you read, and it’s clear to us that BIM and 3D is becoming ever more important to you…”
From WorldCAD Access: The
trend seems to be that GUIs are defenestrating, kinda like Unix and DOS used to
be - “GUIs = graphical user interfaces Defenestrating = elimination of openings…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Autocad - Dynamic Blocks - “WHAT ARE THEY? Dynamic blocks are blocks with additional functions that can add controls to modify the geometry of a bloc…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: DraftSight ends Beta; general release announced! - “The big news from Dassault Systemes today is that they just announced the general release of DraftSight for Window…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: January/February 2011 AUGIWorld Magazine
- Now Available for Download - “AUGI is pleased to announce that the latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Steve Fong Top DAUG at AU2010 - “To be at Autodesk University as a CAD user is to be in awe…”
From Engineeringtalk: Adept Scientific - latest company news - “22 February 2011 - Jackie Mehlmann-Wicks has joined Adept Scientific’s marketing team as web marketing specialist…”
From Engineeringtalk: Alstom chooses Samcef for Wind Turbines software - “Alstom has chosen Samcef for Wind Turbines (S4WT), Samtech’s professional software solution for the advanced dynamic analysis and certification of wind turbines…”
From Engineeringtalk: Aras to hold product lifecycle management webcast - “Aras has announced that it will hold a live webcast on the top five strategic goals of product lifecycle management (PLM) on 23 February 2011 at 11:00 (eastern US time)…”
From Engineeringtalk: CAD software used to create extreme vehicles - “Solidworks software has enabled prime defence contractor Howe and Howe Technologies to invent extreme ‘Mad Max’-style vehicles…”
From Engineeringtalk: CCE releases design automation software tool - “Engineering software and services provider CCE has launched Configlink 2011, a design automation tool that reduces the time to generate custom designs for highly configurable product ranges…”
From Engineeringtalk: Elecworks allows design of automation projects - “Trace Software released a new Elecworks version at the Solidworks World 2011 Conference, held from 23-26 January 2011 in San Antonio, Texas…”
From Engineeringtalk: FLSmidth chooses Smartplant Enterprise platform - “FLSmidth has selected Intergraph’s Smartplant Enterprise system to design cement and mineral processing facilities in order to improve process control and increase efficiency…”
From Engineeringtalk: Fox Electronics expands its deployment of Aras - “Aras has announced that Fox Electronics has expanded its deployment of Aras to become the company’s end-to-end PLM backbone…”
From Engineeringtalk: Frazer-Nash improves rugby statistics software - “Engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash has been working with Scottish Rugby’s Performance Analysis Team (PAT) to improve the capability of its statistics software…”
From Engineeringtalk: Material database for use with Ansys software - “Matereality has released a material database for use with Ansys software that is accessible from within the Ansys Workbench 13.0 environment…”
From Engineeringtalk: Repower selects Samcef for Wind Turbines software - “Repower Systems has chosen Samcef for Wind Turbines (S4WT), a software product from Samtech that is used for the advanced dynamic analysis and certification of wind turbines…”
From Engineeringtalk: Seaward software for safety-compliance testers - “Specialist software has been developed by Seaward for its Clare HAL range of safety-compliance testers that improves production testing times and gives the user greater flexibility…”
From Engineeringtalk: Skelta software targeted at BPM applications - “Invensys Operations Management’s Skelta software provides business process management (BPM) and advanced workflow solutions…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software collects readings from serial instruments - “Windmill Software’s new data acquisition software suite for Windows 7 64- and 32-bit, Vista and XP can collect readings from serial instruments such as power meters, data loggers and motion sensors…”
From Engineeringtalk: Tool enables design of a panel’s exterior surface - “With the new Panel Designer application, B and R offers a free online tool that allows users to creatively design the exterior surface of their panels…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Cam system aids manufacture of cable connector - “The Edgecam system has been instrumental to UK cable manufacturer Prysmian in creating parts for an unusual type of high-voltage electric cabling connector that joins fluid-filled cable to dry cable…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Cimlogic offers free trials of Leantrak software - “Cimlogic, UK implementation partner of Traksys, is offering free trials of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) software Leantrak…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Coastal Steel utilises MIE Trak software - “Coastal Steel is using MIE Trak enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, a MES and production control and job-tracking solution, to improve efficiencies in its business processes…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Communications module for read-only stations - “Balluff has introduced the RFID Easy Loop Communications module, a low-cost system suitable for multiple read-only stations in conveying and pallet-tracking applications…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Datatrack software for subcontract manufacturers - “PSL Datatrack has revealed how its production and business software for the subcontract manufacturing sector is allowing engineering sub contractors to run their businesses more efficiently…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Datatrack software helps WLM drive out waste - “PSL has revealed how WML Engineering has benefitted from adding the Time and Attendance module to its existing installation of Datatrack production and business administration software…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: EMXP II addresses transport Ethernet applications - “Transmode has announced the extension of its Native Packet Optical portfolio to address applications such as Ethernet aggregation, mobile backhaul, video distribution and business Ethernet services…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: GAO RFID fob tag suitable for asset tracking - “GAO RFID has introduced a UHF RFID fob tag for tracking assets, including tracking tools and equipment for real-time inventory visibility and automated check-in/check-out procedures…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Guillotine programmer delivers smooth movement - “TRM has launched the Procut guillotine programmer, which is claimed to offer a large memory and to provide fast, smooth, accurate movement…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Harting selects Sescoi ERP to manage production - “Sescoi’s enterprise research planning (ERP) software, Workplan Enterprise, has increased transparency within the organisation of German toolmaker Harting Applied Technologies, based in Espelkamp…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Kistler DAQ system features USB 2.0 connectivity - “A new DAQ interfacing unit has brought USB 2.0 connectivity to the Kistler Dynoware data-acquisition system…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Lightweight and compact RFID LF Bluetooth reader - “GAO RFID has introduced its wireless 125kHz RFID Bluetooth reader with low power consumption and full portability, which is suitable for use in security patrol, mining and finance systems…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: MIE Trak ERP implemented at Heart-Fab - “Heart-Fab, which manufactures metal components for industries including agriculture, bought MIE Trak, a production control and job-tracking system designed to increase operating profits in job shops…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Metal housing offered for Wireless Node line - “Banner Engineering has introduced a compact metal housing rated for Class I, Division 1 hazardous locations for its intrinsically safe DX99 Wireless Node product line…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Mobile computer for manufacturing applications - “Intermec has launched the 70 series ultra-rugged mobile computer, comprising four products for a range of applications such as field service, route accounting, postal operations and manufacturing…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Open simulation automation software allows plugins - “Dassault Systemes now offers Simulia’s Isight 5.0, an open-desktop solution for simulation process automation and design optimisation for designers, engineers and researchers…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Reach Delivery service enables chemical compliance - “Reach Delivery International is to launch Reach Delivery to enable chemical manufacturers, importers, distributors and downstream users to meet a key requirement of the EU Reach legislation…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Software enables transfer data between collectors - “Transend II utility software is suited for manufacturers seeking an integrated, simplified way to transfer data between data collectors, SPC applications, analytical software and common spreadsheets…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Touch-panel computers cope in harsh environments - “National Instruments (NI) has launched a line of touch-panel computers with an extended operating temperature range based on the 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: UHF RFID system uses 865-870MHz band - “IFM Electronic’s UHF RFID system uses the 865-870MHz band (there is also a 902-928MHz variant for the US market), offering flexibility on a standard platform…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Wireless network suits industrial environments - “IDC’s Zigbee wireless products provide simple decentralised wireless mesh networks that enable process manufacturers to improve their control and monitoring procedures…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: eDrawings eases 2D /3D product design data sharing - “The eDrawings Rapidfire Lite V8.0 with support for DGN files is said to be the first email-enabled collaboration tool designed to ease the sharing and interpretation of 2D and 3D product design data…”
3DVIA Featured in Let’s Go Design Series from the 3DMojo blog
AUGI Combines Publications from the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User
Group International
Old AUGI Forums Rise Again from the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User
Group International
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What’s New in AutoCAD 2011-Part 6 from the CAD-a-Blog
Boston in the snow… PTC/USER TCs + Wildfire 4.0 from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
CADminTools 4.0 pre-release from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
CADminTools 4.0, Pro/E Tips from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
CADminTools 4.0: Quick Install from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Crash and Cache - ProE’s secret settings from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Farewell… from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Happy New Year from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Happy New Year! Intralink, PTC/USER, CADminTools 4 from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
High-volume Intralink Export - Use scripts to make things easier from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Intralink 3.4 - the next chapter… M060 from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Intralink Backup from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Managing Pro/E systems (part 2) from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
PDMLink and Pro/E - starting a new journey… from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
PTC/USER 2009 from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Pro/E Sleight of hand : switch drawing models from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Pro/E with Mathcad (part 1) from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Pro/E with Mathcad (part 2) from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Slow news month ;-) from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Tail - Software to make life easier from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Thoughts on managing Pro/E systems (part 1) from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Use SQL to get Intralink stats direct from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Useful new blog from the CADminBlog: CAD Admin + Pro/E Help blog
Architectural Cell Libraries from the Eat Your CAD blog
DWG Options Configuration Variables from the Eat Your CAD blog
How to remove all Autodesk software to ensure a clean install from the Eat Your CAD blog
Methods of defining DWG Options from the Eat Your CAD blog
What price bim? from the Eat Your CAD blog
3D Printing Concept Cars?
I.materialise is the Secret. This is the Process from SolidSmack.com
3D BOXX 4860 Extreme (Desktop Engineering) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
As Featured in MoldMaking Technology: What is the ROI of 3-D Scanning? (Laser Design) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
BitGraphica Showcases PTC Creo Elements At EXPOMANUFACTURA 2011 from MCADCafe
Boston 3DBOXX 8550 Xtreme workstation reviewed (TechEye) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
BOXX 3DBOXX 8550 Xtreme (3D Professor) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
Capturing and sharing knowledge based on tools supporting ISO 15 926
(Bentley Systems) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
CCE Announces Release of ConfigLink 2011 from MCADCafe
Check it Out: PTC’s Project Lightning (Desktop Engineering) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
DIY Manufacturing (Machine Design) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Engineers Week: Scott Wertel Interview Part 1 (Siemens) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Extend the Reach of Product Information
to the Enterprise (CADALYST Magazine) from CADwire.net - All CAD
industry reviews
GibbsCAM to be Featured at Haas Open House, HaasTec 2011 from MCADCafe
Hexagon Metrology enters into Cooperation Agreement with GE from MCADCafe
IC CAD, ARM TECHCON and PARCAD REVIEW: EDA, GPU, LINUX, PARALLEL COMPUTING and EE TIMES (garysmithEDA.com) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
IDEA: IntelliCAD-Based Architectural BIM (AECbytes) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
InfoWorks RS Reveals the Impact of Flood Mitigation Works on the Damansara River in Malaysia (MWH Soft) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Interview With Josh Mings of SolidSmack (Siemens PLM Software) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Interview with Tony Buser, creator of CloudSCAD (MakerBot Industries) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
LG Electronics Leverages SpaceClaim to Manipulate 3D Models from MCADCafe
Manufacturers Leverage PARTsolutions to Secure $25 Billion in Component Sales from MCADCafe
MapleSim Helps Improve Your Golf Game (Product Design and Development) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Mentor Graphics Underscores Comprehensive Support for UVM 1.0 from MCADCafe
OrthoGraph Survey and Architect (AEC Magazine) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
Part 1 - Manual Reset:
SmartGeometry 2010 in Barcelona - ‘Working Prototypes’ (V1 Magazine)
from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Part 2 - Manual Reset:
SmartGeometry 2010 in Barcelona - ‘Working Prototypes’ (V1 Magazine)
from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Part 3 - Manual Reset:
SmartGeometry 2010 in Barcelona - ‘Working Prototypes’ (V1 Magazine)
from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
PDM vs PLM: A Matrix View (The TEC Blog) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Plex Systems and Cloud-MFG Partner to Serve Engineer to Order Manufacturers from MCADCafe
Quickparts Joins 3D Systems Corporation from MCADCafe
Reaching a new dimension in system simulation with Modelica - ITI actively participates with numerous lectures at the Modelica Conference from MCADCafe
Revit Architecture 2011 (AECbytes) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
Time for Retooling Among GIS Teachers (Geospatial Today) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
totally free iPhone GPS app-but is it any good? (CNET Computers.com) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
Tubeway Army - Measurement Analysis (AICON) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
What’s Broken In EDA… (Chip Design) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry articles
Will BIM Make CAD Irrelevant? At Larson and
Darby, the Answer Is ‘No’ (CADALYST Magazine) from CADwire.net - All
CAD industry articles
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…”
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…”
Autodesk 3ds Max keyboard shortcuts from CAD Forum Tips
CAD formats directly supported in Inventor 2011 (import/export) from CAD Forum Tips
DWG to PDF problem in an arabic font from CAD Forum Tips
How to add blocks to line endpoints? from CAD Forum Tips
How to save Civil 3D objects to an older version? from CAD Forum Tips
How to skip steps in the UNDO/REDO history? from CAD Forum Tips
How to switch off hatch previews in AutoCAD 2011? from CAD Forum Tips
Inventor Publisher for publishing CAD data in other formats from CAD Forum Tips
Publishing DWF/DWFx files from any Windows application from CAD Forum Tips
VBA support in Autodesk CAD software applications from CAD Forum Tips
Deadlines, what would we do without them? from the CAD-a-Blog
Practical Jokes in AutoCAD from the CAD-a-Blog
Quick Tip - Delete Layer from the CAD-a-Blog
Project Technology Manager Wanted - BDP from the Eat Your CAD blog
CAM Industry Leader DP Technology Corp., Maker of ESPRIT, Forms Partnership with ASCON, Maker of CAD Solution KOMPAS-3D from MCADCafe
CimatronE 10.0 Will be Previewed at IMTS from MCADCafe
HP Board Authorizes Additional $10 Billion for Share Repurchases from MCADCafe
Omnify Software Announces 2010 International PLM Customer Conference from MCADCafe
PartMaker to Unveil Dedicated Programming for Bar Fed Mills at IMTS 2010 from MCADCafe
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…”
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…”
Alibre Wins Maker Faire “Editor’s Choice Award” 2010 from MCADCafe
Cimatron Reports Net Profit for Q2 2010 from MCADCafe
Delcam to hold ArtCAM User Meeting in Las Vegas from MCADCafe
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…”
Alibre Wins Maker Fair “Editor’s Choice Award’ 2010 from MCADCafe
AutoCAD 2011 Speeds Work, Saves Money for Design and Engineering Firms from MCADCafe
Concepts NREC Announces TurboMatch from MCADCafe
Faster CFD as Caedium goes Parallel from MCADCafe
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…”
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…”
CAD Workaholics from the CADDmanager blog
Agile 2010 Kicks Off in Orlando from MCADCafe
Capgemini Named HP Partner of the Year for Application Implementation from MCADCafe
Delcam’s CADCAM gives racing supplier power and precision from MCADCafe
East China Electric Power Design Institute Creates World’s Largest Underground Substation with Intergraph SmartPlant from MCADCafe
HPC Advisory Council Announces University Award Program from MCADCafe
SAP Customers Select NetSuite Cloud Software to Automate and Streamline Professional Services from MCADCafe
SolidWorks: 70% Innovative Companies Use It from MCADCafe
USMTC Reports: June manufacturing technology consumption up 35.8% from MCADCafe
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…”
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…”
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…”
Forecasting Ansys’ growth from the COFES.com blog
HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns; CFO Cathie Lesjak Appointed Interim CEO; HP Announces Preliminary Results and Raises Full-year Outlook from MCADCafe
Immersion Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results from MCADCafe
SURFCAM V5.1 Beta Released from MCADCafe