CAD News from Friday, 95 weeks ago
TOP BLOG POSTS
From SolidSmack.com: Collapsible 3D Device Reaches Through 2D
Surface, Strangles Geometry - “The biggest problem with 3D, creating it, viewing it, and eating it, is the 2D screen. You ruin plenty of screens trying to reach through to crush the model with your hand. Soon, you may not have to do that…”
From SolidSmack.com: Don’t Worry. Quadrotor
Robots too Small to Carry You Off. Not Your Kids - “You know how it goes. You buy one, two, eighty quadrotor flying robots at Christmas for your kids. Ya know, because the little gripping mechanism on their belly is just so cute…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: July/A
ugust 2010 AUGIWorld Magazine - Now Available for Download - “AUGI is pleased to announce that the latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download…”
From SolidSmack.com: Ask The Reader: What Mix of Programs Do You
Have in Your Product Design Arsenal? [Poll] - “It’s been a while since we’ve asked this…”
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CAD News from Thursday, 96 weeks ago
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Autodesk FreeWheel 2D/3D Viewer - Google Chrome extension
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CAD News from Wednesday, 96 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Free-form machining from
MechSoft/T-Splines combo - “MecSoft makes CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) software, RhinoCAM. You know, software that takes a 3D CAD model and instructs lathes and other machines to cut away bits of metal to make the part…”
From the CADDmanager blog: AutoCAD Control Codes and
Special Text Characters - “It use to be pretty tough to get special characters into your text in AutoCAD. You had to use %% or other tricks to get it done. Some may still use these ‘inline’ tricks or you could use the menus…”
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CAD News from Tuesday, 96 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: 5 Ways to Use Autodesk Design Suite to Turn
Your Factory into a Zombie Killing Machine - “That’s right. Zombie. Killing. Machine. You may think you yourself are just that, but think about it. What if you had an entire factory to take on the jowl-sagging rampage of a hundred thousand brain gobblers? Mmmm-hmm…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Website issues - “SolidWorks Legion is currently experiencing some issues that are being tracked down. This has caused the lag of new articles recently. Once the matter is sorted, a bunch of new articles will appear…”
From WorldCAD Access: This week in
upFront.eZine: Reading DraftSight’s Eula for fun and pleasure - “From this week’s issue of upFront.eZine: 1. Intergraph to Become a Subsidiary of Hexagon 2…”
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CAD News from Saturday, 96 weeks ago
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From the Alibre CEO blog: Alibre Challenges CAD Industry to Beat $99 Price Offer - “Today we are proud to announce the boldest marketing initiative in the history of 3D CAD - making professional grade 3D CAD software, including parts, assemblies, and drafting, available to anyone for under $100…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: Alibre’s Price Guarantee Challenges CAD Industry to Make 3D CAD
Software Affordable to Businesses and Consumers - “Effective immediately, customers are guaranteed to get an ‘Order of Magnitude’ better price on Alibre Design software, versus any comparable 3D CAD program, regardless of the number of seats (licenses) purchased…”
From the 3D CAD blog: Inventor Fusion in Inventor 2011 - “So it seems that the Fusion technology will be included in all versions of Inventor 2011. What I have heard (off the record), Inventor 2011 will be a pretty interesting version with lots of nice features…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: Alibre Clarifies Support Options for New Customers - “All new Alibre Design customers, including those purchasing Alibre Design Standard for $99, are eligible for ‘Installation and Getting Started’ support during the 30 days immediately following purchase…”
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CAD News from Friday, 156 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: Blogger Conduct - “Many bloggers are new to the whole realm of public publishing, and sometimes don’t know the rules. For instance, a CAD dealer who is also a blogger, was on the phone with me for another matter…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Appendage Jitterer..er..er - “The excessive amount of arm motion and flared eyelids was just too much to bear. So, Iwhat do you do? Detached some of the arms and installed these links instead. That’s what ya do…”
From WorldCAD Access: Vancouver Wants to Close Door on Closed Source Software - “The city of Vancouver wants to change to an Open City, declares the mayor. Vancouver, BC is Canada’s third-largest city and next February’s host of the 2010 Winter Olympics…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CAD Standard Concept - Don’t Major on the Minors - “The Standard should not get overly focused, nor spend too much time documenting things that people are not having problems with. Don’t spend too much time majoring in the minors…”
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CAD News from Thursday, 157 weeks ago
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From the Solidworks Blog: Product Data
Management (PDM) Basics III - Versioning and Revisioning - Rich Allen - “Thanks for reading and commenting on this Blog. In this installment, we will explore the concepts of versioning and revisioning or the incredible PDM Time Machine…”
From WorldCAD Access: Not Dead: Constructware - “Building Design + Construction is reporting that Autodesk is shutting down further development of Constructware…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CAD Standard Concept - Creating Creativity - “The Standard should not handcuff creativity Many times I have heard people say that ‘a standard handcuffs creativity…”
From WorldCAD Access: By Accident. Or on Purpose - “I’m updating my Using AutoCAD book for Autodesk Press…”
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