CAD News from Thursday, 44 weeks ago
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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…”
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CAD News from Wednesday, 44 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Vuuch Product Review: Slapping Discussion Across the Face of Design - “If you had one thing to change about how you discussed design iterations, what would it be? I can imagine a few ways, starting with destroying useless email conversations and firing that one guy who can’t seem to do anything on his own…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: SolidWorks Spelling Check (who’s using it?) - “I recently conducted a small poll on SolidWorks Yahoo! Group asking who was using SolidWorks Spelling Check. To my surprize, almost half (so far) have never even hear of Spelling Check. Only 21% of respondents use Spelling Check regularly…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Evaluate Existing CAD Standards - “Most firms have some form of standard. Some may not have one, but I would think that there must be some shred of a standard at your office, even if it is old, outdated, and never used…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: How to I match my text sizes in mm and points? - “QUESTION We do a lot of work with our CAD files in Adobe InDesign and PhotoShop. We can never match the text sizes exactly as our CAD system works in mm but our DTP products use point…”
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CAD News from Tuesday, 44 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Dassault Q1 Up 1% (or Down 6%) - Take Your Pick - “Dassault Systemes reported its Q1 revenues last week, and revenues either grew or fell compared to a year ago, depending on how currency exchange is treated: Total revenue down 6% using the same exchange rate as a year ago…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CAD Standards - Defining Scope - “How much will you cover? Defining how in depth your standard will be will assist you in knowing when you have enough to publish. You want enough to make it effective, but not so much that people don’t read it or know what is in it…”
From SolidSmack.com: The 3D Alphabet? Yep, and Why 3D Might Be More Confusing Than 2D - “How many times do you look at somethign and say, ‘yeah, that would be MUCH COOLER in 3D.’ Ya know, stuff like a book, a movie, or set of schematics for a miniature fusion reactor…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #83 - “In this episode, Tod shows us the flexibility of the 3DVIA Composer user interface and how to customize it to maximize productivity to the way you like to work. Like toolbars? Watch and learn how to create custom toolbar…”
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CAD News from Monday, 44 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Numbers War: SolidWorks Claims 1,000,000 Seats - “The number of seats sold by vendors is as contentious a debate as Mac vs PC. Problems with seat figures include: Licenses donated to educational institutes for free, and hence possibly unused…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Tired Tourist (Day Tripping in Oberhausen) - “My host, Dietmar Rudolph, noted it the irony of me staying three nights in his home town of Essen, yet I am seeing none of it, ‘cepting his quiet street…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Administrivia: a few updates - “You are probably aware of at least one obvious change here at the FAQ: a new (old) theme. The default WordPress theme is very legible (the usability bug got me again) and easy for me to customize…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Forget the Car - It’s the Building - “Most people in the US know that it’s environmentally unsound to drive an SUV. Even those who drive them. Drive a Hummer and you might as well be raping Mother Earth…”
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CAD News from Saturday, 44 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: The Artsy Tourist (Day Tripping in Koln) - “OK, so now we’re in Germany, at the home of Dietmar Rudolph, who runs CR/LF Consulting. He is best known in the CAD world for his definitive book on the DXF file format…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Using 3dsmax 2010 graphite tools to recreate bad meshes - “Here is a quick demonstration I created a couple months ago for a user group event that shows how you can use a couple of the graphite modeling tools to rebuild an landscape model that has a ton of problems…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Mad Tourist (Day Tripping in Amsterdam) - “On our last day in Holland, we needed to do one more thing: visit the Rijksmuseum where the Rembrant paintings hang, such as the famous Night Watch…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Bob says, “Check out the new Inventor Support Blog!” - “Are you in manufacturing? Looking for some Inventor support? I just got an email from Bob Van der Donck, the Inventor Technical Lead in the Product Support group at Autodesk…”
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CAD News from Friday, 44 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: LEDAS Duplicates Siemens’ SynchTech - “During the ODA conference, Dmitry Ushakov of LEDAS told us that Siemens’ Synchonous Technology truly solves the problem of how to directly edit 3D models in a history-free geometry yet keep the design intent…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CAD Manager - Stick Your Nose In - “Let’s face it - CAD Managers have to get involved. There are a lot of times that you will not be invited in to meetings, planning efforts, new hire orientation, project setups, reviews, or more. So you have to just stick your nose in…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Grainy Tumblebot - “He’ll eat’em all and then just leave the crumbs… That’s when it happens. The crumbs turn into a giant ‘crumb monster’ and chase the cats and butter everything…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: May 2009 - “Mayday - an (anti-capitalist) festival against work, want and denial, and a vision of freedom and plenty throughout the world. Or a celebration of the achievements of the labour movement…”
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CAD News from Thursday, 45 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Our Customers Tell Us… - “In talks with marketing people about new software features, they sometimes use a phrase that runs along the lines of “Our users told us…” or “Responding to requests from our users…”…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: A games business model for the rest of us? - “There was a time not long ago when games development was young and scrappy. You could get a couple buddies together and quickly put together a game that would (if you were lucky) make you a million dollars…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks Premium: Stay Out of Gas Stations: - “Or if you prefer, go to this gas station and drink the coffee to dance with an atypical gas station clerk and entertain grizzly truck drivers…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Farnsworth House Render - “Alessandro Prodan has created one of the most natural looking foliage renders I’ve yet seen, using Maya Paint Effects rendered in Mental Ray. http://marlas.cgsociety.org/gallery/…”
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