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I managed to get Paul Grayson, Founder and CEO of Alibre, to go public on his views on CAD on the cloud. With his permission I am reproducing an email he sent to me a short while ago: Hi Deelip, I have been following all of the coverage that cloud computing has gotten  [more...]

A good engineer can recite whole sections of his favorite reference book…a smart engineer knows how to find the information when needed. And having a fully stocked reference library can save valuable research time and could have an impact on how fast your turn  [more...]

Off of a recent support call we learned that Avast! Internet Security has been found to cause a problem on x64 machines while installing SolidWorks. Even though SolidWorks does not required to us shut down the anti-virus programs anymore during [more...]

Bob McNeel, CEO of Robert McNeel and Associates, the developers of Rhinoceros, had this to say about CAD on the cloud: Any new technology direction in the CAD industry takes awhile to show user benefits. The “Cloud” is one more technology that might help designers  [more...]

Ok, just to be straight with everyone, Bill Taylor from SW gave me a call this afternoon. Bill is in charge of something to do with SWWorld, SW Community or something in that range, I don’t know exactly what. I hear from Bill a couple times a year about one thing  [more...]

One of the very important aspects of PLM as enterprise software is the ability to be implemented in the fast and easy way. I think you will agree, that long implementation cycle can put your PLM project into the wastebasket as well as your carrier on hold. I’m  [more...]

I often point out a Jim Brown example when I talk about social media here at Siemens. It was probably a year and half ago when Jim and I realized from respective tweets that we were both in the Philly airport. The next thing you know we were eating some fried green  [more...]

I am hosting my own site and blog now. It has been my desire to create a site that has better content, news, information and benefit to the Autodesk Manufacturing community. More storage and flexibility was required. This site will be discontinued over time. The  [more...]

You might have noticed that I haven't been blogging much, at least not on CAD-a-Blog.com. I have been doing a bit of micro blogging on Twitter and Facebook. Don't worry. I'm getting back to it. I've been busy on a project that has been published (I'll talk more  [more...]

Another tip from The Revit Clinic....Conceptual Mass Forms & Reference LinesHere’s a quick tip regarding reference lines and forms in the conceptual mass interface:When a form is created the original lines will be deleted when you delete the form. If you created  [more...]

Hi all,We're opening the show in less than 2 hours, and excited by what we have to show this year.Right now, I invite you to go play the game "Billions Save Them All", which is in beta but available in its source code version on the game blog: http://billions.3dvia.comTime  [more...]

Ok, ‘turbomachines’ don’t actually make the world ‘go round, but they have been the catalyst of human advancements for thousands of years—from the early Roman water wheels of the first century B.C. to the modern power turbines, and aircraft  [more...]

The first edition of "Essential Mathematics for Computational Design" is now available with free download:Essential Mathematics uses Grasshopper to introduce design professionals to foundation mathematical concepts that are necessary for effective development of computational  [more...]

Tool Palettes File Locations Specifies the path for tool palette support files. I suggest you leave this setting alone. Authoring Palette File Locations Specifies the path for the Block Authoring Palettes support files. Block Authoring Palettes are used in the Block  [more...]

The first year I went to SoildWorks World was 2008, as an attendee.  I had a full schedule of breakout sessions that I attended.  Having started SolidWorks Legion in 2007, this was a great opportunity to review a large number of these sessions.  My reviews of SolidWorks  [more...]

AUGI is pleased to announce that the latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download.Click Here to download the AUGIWorld March/April 2010 issueIn this issue of AUGIWorld:* Beyond Autodesk: Are You Plugged In? - Innovation comes not only from within Autodesk,  [more...]

From the 18th to the 25th, RhinoGold will be attending one of the most important jewelry Trade-Show worldwide, ‘BaselWorld 2010′. TDM Solutions will have its own booth. Interested in RhinoGold, the 3D jewelry software? Don’t miss the chance to visit  [more...]

Autodesk intros Maya 2011 at GDC Event - New 64-bit Mac support plus upgraded FBX utilities and upgraded integration with Final Cut Pro.

This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration [more...]

Free Curriculum Helps Post-Secondary Students Experience Entire Game Development PipelineSAN RAFAEL, Calif., Mar 11, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), has introduced its "Vehicle for Games" curriculum for post-secondary students. The  [more...]

Company's Robotics-Assisted Thrill Rides Are Changing the Face of EntertainmentSAN RAFAEL, Calif., Mar 11, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), has named Dynamic Structures as the Autodesk Inventor of the Year for 2009. Members of the  [more...]

Of the four original founding members of SWUGN, Scott Bemis is somewhat a mystery. His contribution to the SolidWorks Community can still be seen in some of the support documentation provided to user group leaders, but shortly after 2000, work [more...]

Christopher Boothroyd, CEO of AfterCAD, was cutting it close, to say the least. A day ago, as he headed out to the airport for San Francisco, he and his colleague Kenney Wong (not the same as this blogger) were still troubleshooting the interactive application he was  [more...]

Sunnyvale, Calif. - AMD announced the AMD Foundation, in support of AMD Changing the Game, has awarded a grant to the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The $65,000 grant will be used to help fund the Alliance’s new video game design category for the 2010 and  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. - Crytek GmbH is presenting CryEngine3 in stereoscopic 3D (S-3D) at this year’s GDC expo in San Francisco. Developers in attendance at GDC10 can experience the topical S-3D trend built with Crytek’s latest development solution.

San Francisco, Calif. - Darwin Dimensions, maker of Web tools that turn Internet consumers into 3D artists, launched Evolver Proto deliver superior-quality 3D character models to 3D professionals. During this week's Game Developer Conference, Evolver Pro is extending  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. - Image Metrics, a provider of facial animation technology and services for the entertainment industry, has launched Faceware, the company's facial animation technology platform. Bungie, developer of the blockbuster Halo franchise, plans to incorporate  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. - Silicon Studio Corporation, a provider of digital content creation tools for the entertainment industry, is creating an umbrella brand for its proprietary series of real-time graphics middleware for game developers, which Silicon Studio is exhibiting  [more...]

San Rafael, Calif. - Autodesk Inc. has announced Autodesk Maya 2011 software, the latest version of its 3D animation software. A new user interface (UI), 3D editorial capability and enhanced skinning workflow help provide computer graphics (CG) artists with an end-to-end  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. - Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced the public beta of 3DVIA Studio and 3DVIA Scenes, two applications that enable new communities of Web users to create, publish, and share realistic 3D experiences online. The new 3DVIA offerings combine the power  [more...]

Here is a news alert. Ashlar-Vellum’s March Madness Sale is ending tomorrow. They are offering a 20% discount on new licenses and upgrades to v8 of Cobalt, Xenon, Argon or Graphite. If you have 12 minutes to spare I suggest you take a look at this video. Ashlar  [more...]

The Conference Board of Canada estimates that the global market for water and wastewater is in excess of $450 billion (2008), with annual growth of 8% to 15%. Water consumption in Canada is excessive because of the lack of widespread [more...]

By Matt Clark But first a note from the Editor. Yeah, that’s me – Deelip. Matt Clark is an avid reader of this blog and finds it “informative and interesting”. Last year he left a job as a SolidWorks Support Technician at the VAR level for over  [more...]

I wonder if Stephen knew I’ll need to download GB of cad software in the future?Pacific Fibre – It Had to Happen at diversity.net.nz“Anyone that follows the New Zealand domestic web space will have noticed a crescendo about international bandwidth…”“Announced this  [more...]

Kenneth Skovhede has announced the release of MapGuide Maestro 2.0 after over a year of development. Maestro is an open source MapGuide authoring tool. Jason Birch has been using the pre-release for several months and has identified his top 10 [more...]

Check out Mach Studio Pro!So what is Mach Studio Pro? William mentioned it in his blog recently and Steve Bennett mentioned it in his blog in May 2009 after getting to see it and again in November 2009, so you can read their thoughts too. Here's a description from  [more...]

Here’s a quick tip regarding reference lines and forms in the conceptual mass interface: When a form is created the original lines will be deleted when you delete the form. If you created the form with reference lines however they [more...]

Ok, this shouldn't be so hard, but it's got several little hurdles, thus this blog posting ;) (Ref. This is SolidWorks 2010 as of SP 2.1) AT THE SERVER (the actual SNL server that's running the service.) We need to [more...]

You may have read some of my previous postings on prosthetics and how they are being dramatically affected by advancements in 3D scanning and printing. But there is so much more benefits that prosthetics are providing for many other advancements [more...]

Another great BIM Best Practices Tip from Luke. I wonder how big this list will be in 28 years.http://whatrevitwants.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-add-label-to-component-family.htmlSometimes you will want a component family to 'always' show a certain label. In other  [more...]

Today I received this glowing testimonial from someone who purchased my book titled “OpenCAD – A Step By Step Guide to Developing a Professional CAD Application“. “I purchased the electronic version of your OpenCAD step-by-step guide. What a  [more...]

Click the File Locations tab of the Options dialog to set paths for files and directories. Files and Directories Default template file: Specify the path for the default template file. The Revit Architecture installation automatically sets this path; however, you may  [more...]

Restaurant Association holds awards dinner; Jones Lang LaSalle hired by Dassault Systemes; Brain Injury Association schedules conference; Mendon real estate firm has a new name; Natick photographer receives accolades; Employers nominated for Freedom Award

Two days ago, Product Manager, Patrick Aragon, celebrated Project Dragonfly's one year anniversary with the following message. On March 9th, 2009, the Project Dragonfly web application was “born” on Autodesk Labs, weighing in at a lean 70 saved designs, 33 [more...]

A prospective customer put this question to me today: It has been great trying to use SYCODE software to import 3DS files from ArchiCAD to Alibre. I would love to work with both platforms more interconnected. Do you have a suggestion of how I could do that? I plan  [more...]

There is a new pre-release Rhino OS X build available, Wenatchee 2010-03-08, with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Including: Additions:Rhino OS X now runs Python scripts. See this forum post for further information.Changes:Various bug fixes.Everyone  [more...]

Manage TabThe Manage tab is the sixth static (always available) tab provided in the out-of-the-box ACA CUI. The image below and all screen captures in this article are based on the shipping version.Navigate PanelThe Action Recorder Panel contains commands related  [more...]

TecnoGold 2010 is the 12th Annual Technology Fair for Gems and Design in the jewelry industry. TecnoGold 2010 will be held in São Paulo, Brazil on April 22-24.Location: Centro de Eventos São Luis, São PauloDates: April 22, 23, 24Come and see RhinoGOLD, RhinoGOLD Render  [more...]

I have two little updates on the article on John Morse's technique for dynamically loading a Revit add-in without having to restart Revit. Debugging an Assembly Loaded from a Byte Array First, the initial comments posted by Guy Robinson and [more...]

Repost: http://revitclinic.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/like-fatherlike-son-not-exactly.htmlBack in the 80’s, there was a movie that came out called Like Father Like Son, starring Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore.It was a hilarious comedy about a teenage son (Cameron)  [more...]

Repost: http://revitclinic.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/an-attached-structural-foundation-will-be-moved-to-the-bottom-of-the-column.htmlBy design, a structural foundation will automatically attach to the bottom of a structural column. If you try to adjust the column  [more...]

You heard it here first folks!  Remember my sneak prevue post?  iPhone + Photos + 3D Objects = Yum!  Ok, look again (or for the first time) and notice the lead photo.  Nah, not the 3D object superimposed on the 2D photo.  Look at the person sitting in the chair.  Yeah,  [more...]

Multidisciplinary Transportation, Infrastructure and Urban Development Projects Demonstrate Integrated Building Information Modeling (BIM) ProcessSAN RAFAEL, Calif., Mar 10, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 2D and 3D design,  [more...]

Back in the 80’s, there was a movie that came out called Like Father Like Son, starring Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore. It was a hilarious comedy about a teenage son (Cameron) who switches bodies with his surgeon father (Moore). [more...]

So you have a plan view with the following View Range:which should only show elements in the shaded area:Notice that the beams are above our view range. However in a plan view, you get this: Why on earth are those beams showing up in that plan view? After taking a  [more...]

Here's an amazing best practices tip. You know, we never have this problem when working with 2D. Why does 3D have to make everything so complicated? Insert sarcasm here. I'd like to give a special thank you to Doctor of BIM, Harlan Brumm, who's responsible for  [more...]

I received a question from a Between the Lines blog reader John Reid this week in response to a previous post “StarBacks BBQ Floor Space Planning with AutoCAD FIELDS”. I thought it would be a great lunchtime challenge to break free of all the other things I was doing,  [more...]

By design, a structural foundation will automatically attach to the bottom of a structural column. If you try to adjust the column base, the foundation will automatically move with it. Though this is by design, if you need to move [more...]

Dr. Eng Lim Goh to Give Technical Presentation and Join Panel of Thought Leaders to Discuss HPC Momentum and Future of the Industry

Delcam?s Healthcare Division will demonstrate its market-leading technology for medical device manufacture at OrthoTec 2010 in Warsaw, Indiana, on 12th and 13th May.

San Francisco, Calif. - Hi5, the largest social entertainment site focused on gaming, announced a new Game Developer Program designed to accelerate user adoption and revenue generation of social and online games. Hi5 president and CTO Alex St. John, provided details  [more...]

San Francisco, Calif. - MySpace has announced a new MySpace Games experience that creates a more social gaming environment with new tools and functionality for users and developers, says a representative. The site, available at myspace.com/games, launched at the Game  [more...]

We've got several great promotions you can take advantage of this month, take a look:Buy a seat of SolidWorks Professional or Premium and get one Introduction to SolidWorks 3DU course at 50%... Do you want to know how to create sections in 3D? How about forgotten  [more...]

Outdated perceptions by manufacturers about the cost of investing in design technology are hampering their business growth, according to Autodesk.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Autodesk, Inc. , a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced that Figueiredo Ferraz, one of Brazil’s foremost engineering companies, has been selected to receive an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for its  [more...]

Autodesk has announced Autodesk Maya 2011 software [more...]

Three CAD vendors -- Lattice, Elysium, and Kubotek -- are partnering with Boeing to present a half-day seminar later this month on the problems of dealing with 3D CAD data.The conference has the unhappily-long title of "Improve Aerospace Supply Chain Quality and Productivity  [more...]

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A story by Creaform That’s the (very philosophical) question that was casually thrown on Creaform's team meeting table back about a year ago, as we were trying to find a way to stretch our legs with a project that would pose a technical challenge to our team and soothe  [more...]