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Whats New in AutoCAD 2007 |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Monday, 29 May 2006 22:52 |
Create and explore your ideas with these new features:
Download the PDF list from here
Create the design of your dreams, or your client’s, with creation, editing, and navigation tools that take your vision to a new level of precision and aesthetic presentation.
Visualize your ideas like never before with lighting effects, materials libraries, walk-through animations, and stunning rendering capabilities.
Document your design quickly and easily with sectioning and flattening tools, dynamic blocks, and enhanced tables to create clear and accurate sets of construction documents.
Share design information across extended teams with powerful tools for exchanging data.
Migrate easily with tools that help you upgrade while preserving customization of toolbars and menus.
for more details read on the Autodesk site about AutoCAD 2007 Features
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Affordable 3D CAD translation software joins |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Monday, 29 May 2006 20:30 |
ManufacturingTalk.com reports:
TransMagic, the leading developer of innovative and affordable 3D CAD translation software, has announced it has joined the SolidWorks Solution Partner Program. TransMagic's software addresses the interoperability challenges facing today's designers and dramatically reduces the time to transfer 3D files accurately between the most CAD/CAM/CAE systems used in a wide range of manufacturing related applications. TransMagic's multi-format CAD data exchange software products are compatible with every CAD system.
They feature extensive geometry repair tools providing a robust 'solid to solid' translation of 3D CAD data.
TransMagic supports the major MCAD (mechanical CAD) and neutral file formats including CATIA V5, CATIA V4, Unigraphics, Pro/Engineer, ACIS, Parasolid, STEP, StereoLithography, IGES and HSF.
read more about translation of 3D CAD data |
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CAD-1 Gets Autodesk Authorized Training Center Awards |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Friday, 26 May 2006 08:33 |
TenLinks.com writes:
DENVER, Colorado, May 25, 2006 - Autodesk has awarded CAD-1’s Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC) four awards for 2005. Warren Geissler, an instructor at CAD-1, was recognized for outstanding achievement and awarded “Regional Instructor”. Jarod J. Schultz, V.P. – Technical Services and instructor, was also recognized for outstanding achievement and awarded “Regional Instructor”. There are 18 “Regional Instructor” awards presented with three per region within North and South America. There are 3667 instructors within the Americas.
read more on CAD-1 Autodesk Authorized Training Center
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Autodesk Inventor11, Summary of Recent R11 Press |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Thursday, 25 May 2006 00:31 |
Over the past few months a variety of very positive reviews have come out in print and on-line. Highlighted by Jeff Powell _at_Autodesk.com
1. Design News, April, 2006
“One key aspect is that the software provides what's called functional design. Product designers begin with symbolic presentations of an object rather than starting with geometries. This speeds design and provides data that can be used to create models for virtual prototyping.”
Tackling Large Assemblies, Terry Costlow
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Last Updated on Thursday, 25 May 2006 00:40 |
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CADLock Releases CADVault v4.1 for AutoCAD 2007 |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:32 |
TenLinks.com writes:
APPLE CREEK, Ohio, May 24, 2006 - CADLock, Inc. released version 4.1 of their digital rights management software, CADVault for AutoCAD. The upgrade adds support for AutoCAD 2007, and improves performance and forward compatibility of secured content. End users of CADVault software may use the product's update check feature to upgrade existing installations. The new version of CADVault for AutoCAD may be freely downloaded from the CADLock Download Center at http://www.cadlock.com/download.
more on CADVault for AutoCAD |
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CAD/CAM developments benefit South America |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:02 |
Manufacturing talk UK writes:
South American firms can benefit from CAD/CAM software that offers all the capabilities of the well known modeling products with advanced CNC programming that can simulate machine tools.
The integrated CAD/CAM TopSolid solution from Missler Software will be present on two major South American trade fairs in May. * EXPOMIN 2006, From 23/05/2006 to 27/05/2006, in Santiago, Chile. * Mecanica Expo, From 23/05/2006 to 27/05/2006, in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
more on CAD/CAM benefiting South America
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3D: High-flying Hungarian company is no illusion |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:41 |
IST Results writes about a promising 3D holographic technology with great potential in TV, medical applications and manufacturing CAD. Excerpts:
Looking to make 3DTV a reality in millions of homes around the world is the dizzying ambition of Hungarian high-growth company, Holografika.
Holografika supplies a proprietary 3D holographic display technology, called the HoloVizio™ system, which provides multiple viewers with a natural 3D view without the need for special glasses or tracking equipment.
How does HoloVizio™ work? Well, for starters, it is not the same as so-called auto-stereoscopic 3D systems, developed by companies such as Sharp, which involve showing a viewer two slightly different 2D images – one for the left eye and one for the right eye – and the viewer’s brain fusing them to produce a single perceived 3D image.
Holografika’s approach aims to mimic that of a viewer looking straight out of a conventional window - which is essentially a 2D object – but nevertheless perceiving the outside environment as a perfect 3D image. In this situation, the viewer perceives a 3D effect because the light patterns at each point on the window change subtly according to what is behind it and the angle it is being viewed.
Consequently, HoloVizio™ involves a viewer looking at a ‘digital window’. Tibor Balogh, Holografika’s CEO and Founder, explains: “It uses a holographic screen. When beams inside the device strike the screen, each point of the holoscreen is able to emit light beams of a different colour and intensity in different directions.”
Balogh established the company in 1989 whilst working as an Assistant Professor at the Loránd Eötvös University of Science in Budapest. Since 2004, the company has been supplying HoloVizio™ displays for scientific visualisation and medical applications as well as automotive computer-aided design.
more about Holovizio and CAD
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H3 Selects Autodesk Revit Platform for BIM |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:26 |
TenLinks.com writes:
SAN RAFAEL, California, May 23, 2006 - Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) announced today that Autodesk Revit-based software is being used to complete the design, documentation, and delivery of the new United States Federal Courthouse in Jackson, MS as part of the United States Government Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service (PBS) building information modeling (BIM) pilot project. H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture (H3) and their consultant engineers, Walter P Moore and Cooke Douglas Farr Lemmons (CDFL), are using the Autodesk Revit Platform for BIM -- including Autodesk Revit Building and Autodesk Revit Structure -- as the core modeling software to realize their ideas, maintain better cost control, track space requirements for multiple tenants, and to provide construction documentation that is better coordinated, more consistent, and of higher quality.
read the entire press release by Autodesk about Revit
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VX Corporation: Convert digital images into 3D models |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Saturday, 20 May 2006 03:05 |
News Release from: VX Corporation
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial Team
Developer of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for engineers has announced a powerful function that lets product designers import and use digital images for defining 3D models.
Convert digital images into 3D models Developer of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for engineers has announced a powerful function that lets product designers import and use digital images for defining 3D models. VX Corporation, the pioneering developer of advanced, integrated CAD/CAM solutions for engineers and industrial designers, announces a powerful new function that lets product designers import and use digital images for defining 3D models. * Freedom to design - VX CAD/CAM, known for its powerful and fast import of external geometry, has now extended that capability to the import of digital images.
read more on VX CAD/CAM import of external geometry, raster to 3D
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Disney Mobile's New Family Locator Service Powered by Autodesk |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:22 |
Press Release
Source: Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk LocationLogic Connects Disney Mobile Families in New Ways
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK - News), today announced that Disney Mobile will use Autodesk® software and professional services to bring their forthcoming Family Locator(TM) wireless location services to market. Disney Mobile is leveraging Autodesk's award-winning LocationLogic(TM) platform and software applications to enable parents to locate their children's handsets using GPS technology.
read more about Disney Mobile using Autodesk® software and professional services |
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Autodesk designing an animated future for itself |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Tuesday, 16 May 2006 03:11 |
Growth in 3-D imaging has made firm tops for architects, engineers, filmmakers
Simon Avery writes on theglobeandmail.com: Carol Bartz, chairwoman of Autodesk Inc., has just handed over the role of chief executive officer to a man she once fired from the software firm for being a trouble maker, and then rehired a short time later.
The 57-year-old has used her flexible but no-nonsense management style to transform the California company from a floundering, one-product firm into a global player whose design software is the tool of choice for architects, engineers and filmmakers around the world. read more about Carol Bartz, chairwoman of Autodesk Inc.
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Honda Racing Speeds Storage with DataCore Software |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Tuesday, 16 May 2006 03:02 |
Gridtoday.com writes:
The Honda Racing F1 Team, through its partnership with NCE in the United Kingdom, has deployed DataCore's SANmelody solution to achieve a robust, high-performance IT infrastructure for data storage to support the F1 team activities both on and off the track. These include the normal e-mail, documents, database and spreadsheet type systems support for the Honda Racing F1 Team, but more importantly the computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture (CAD/CAM), development and performance monitoring of the RA106 race cars, plus the every day use and analysis of still images and video footage for engineering adjustments and driver feedback. (read on >>)
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