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PhotoView 360 represents the latest in technology for balancing high quality image output with ease of use.  The technology base for PhotoView 360 is new and was co-developed with Luxology, a leader in photorealistic rendering technology.  PhotoView 360 is fast and  [...]

From an anonymous source: Dear SolidWorks Reseller, This note is to inform you that we will not implement the new Subscription start date or late fee increases which were scheduled to be effective on October 15, 2008. Based on feedback we received from you, our field  [...]

Despondent that your subscription is not going to offer you useful options that make sense? This one might throw you into an even deeper funk. Don’t handle sharp objects, firearms or walk over bridges after reading this. SolidWorks is very heavily invested in  [...]

This was passed along to me by Roberto Alayeto with DMJM in Coral Gables, Florida.When you are copying a multitude of files and get the message to overwrite existing files you get this dialog.I've added a little balloon callout to explain what to do when you really  [...]

Have you run into a problem that the dates or time in a table, query, form or report are sorted as plain text instead of in date order as expected?Notice that the columns Test1 and Test3 below does not sort correctly.The reason in this case is that Format has been  [...]

There’s products that really add to the quality of life and then there’s products that can actually help you survive it. Whether its months in the brambles of the desolate Australian interior or days spent escaping robot swarms the Ersa, renewable water  [...]

Randall Newton is reporting on CADCAMNet that Mike Payne, the CEO of SpaceClaim, has been made Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and Business Development VP Rich Moore is taking over his place.Apart from a new face for the CEO, the company recently gave  [...]

Check out my latest article for AUGI Hotnews, MEASURING UP. It is an article that discuses units and how to set your AutoCAD files units of measurement.The article also looks at methods on properly setting up your drawing units.Happy CADDING. [...]

This is a review of the book, “BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors” by Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, and Kathleen Liston, published by Wiley in March 2008. The review  [...]

two day digital photography training today with Matt from New Jersey. Having a good time

I’m testing out the latest beta of Flock (v 2.0). Essentially, I can blog, twit, facebook, search the web, etc., all from one application. Upload photos to Picasa, Flickr, etc… very cool. Just need mail in here and we’re set! Blogged with the Flock  [...]

"There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice,  [...]

I received e-mails asking how users or potential users can teach themselves to use AutoCAD or one of Autodesk's verticals. Well, I was reminded today by Shaan Hurley's post about the Autodesk Student Community.If you are a student (meaning you have a student e-mail  [...]

As many of you know, SolidWorks is just about to release SolidWorks 2009. SolidWorks will also release SolidWorks Enterprise PDM, complete with many new features and benefits. In this preview, I will talk about the basics. First of all, you...

Last week, I posted a note that Dr. Patrick Hanratty was trying to find a home for an old mid-70's vintage Tektronix 4014 graphics terminal that he no longer needs. I heard from the Computer History Museum, and they already have a Tek 4014 in their collection. They  [...]

A quick peek into some research on  [...] how small to midsize manufacturers are implementing PLM points out some of the same things we have [...]

On August 22nd 2008, Autodesk Subscription members, as part of their benefits, can download the following new feature releases:

I used to be quite an avid golfer, sometimes playing as many as 5 times a week. I still try to get out once every couple of weeks or so. I started playing in 1975, but got serious about it [...]

Author: iDS! Subject: Inventor: Un-official IV Recommended Sys Specs Topic Replies: 0There has been great debate over several key choices when specifying a new Inventor workstation lately, so I felt obligated to share my research. As always, I encourage all input to  [...]

This was brought to my attention by a fellow blogger and AUGI member. The Revit Tutorials blog has been posting articles for some time now. The trouble is that the articles are not their own. Some are mine, the rest or at least many belong to others.Specifically their  [...]

Before we dive into Map Drawing Status Bar topic, I wanted to give you an update on Malcolm's "Joining Parts from Different Pipe Networks in Civil 3D 2009". Since the posting of the topic, I have heard from a reliable source (thanks Warren) that according to Autodesk  [...]

It is that time of year for students to head back to the classroom and dorms. I just wanted to mention you can get many Autodesk design applications for free as a student from http://students.autodesk.com. From Autodesk Impression, 3D Viz, [...]

On my quest for world records I have come accross some great people. One of them is Roz Savage and she has rowed accross the Atlantic and is almost half way across the Pacific and about to land in Hawaii. She is doing this for the environment and so far has done this  [...]

On eVolo Architecture you find amazing ideas for buildings.Here are some images from the 08 Skyscraper competition.First place: Elie Gamburg Second place: Rugel Chiriboga - Ted Givens Third place: Alberto Fernández - Susana Ortega Competition mentions: Christopher  [...]

Single letter keyboard shortcuts work but they "harm" any other shortcut that starts with the same letter. When you type a single letter watch the Status Bar.Revit recognizes the letter as the start of a "hotkey".If you type a second letter and it matches a defined  [...]

I was going to lead off with a brief article about one of my favorite resources, AllAPI.net. Unfortunately, that article has turned into an obituary.

I want to thank Todd Trein, Territory Technical Manager at SolidWorks, for sending me this email regarding File Conversion and Task Scheduler functionality in 2009. Hope this helps some of you out... Do you want to know how to create sections in 3D? How about forgotten  [...]

Tools - Talent - Technology - Training These four T’s can be used to define your efforts in you job. Combine these four and you get a balanced approach to CAD. Training is how you get everyone there. Provide it and you succeed. Let it laps and your best tools and  [...]

SmarTeam is set up to populate my Solidworks Drawing title block with the originator, but it’s displaying the wrong information, it needs to display initials instead. What is an easy way to do this? The answer lies in Projections. So...

SpaceClaim's PR firm contacted me to clarify that Rich Moore is not the CEO as I mentioned earlier today. This is what they said, "While Rich is indeed a public face of the company, he is not taking over Mike’s role as CEO. The company has undertaken a search for a  [...]

For the third year now you can sign up for free webcasts from top notch Autodesk DevTech Engineers. API training schedule website The webcasts vary in subject from overviews on the APIs available for Autodesk products, such as AutoCAD, AutoCAD [...]

The Rhino Labs Tools plug-in contains miscellaneous tools that you might find useful. Who knows, some of these tools might even make it into the next release...ConvertDots - converts text dots to either points or text objects.DupDimStyle - duplicates dimension styles.FindText  [...]

If you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area or the Boston Area, you have a rare opportunity to test drive some new features in AutoCAD and contribute your feedback to future releases.

Greetings everyone, After having specified the starting point of a line, you can draw the line in any length in any direction that you simply show with your mouse. The features used in such a drawing are Ortho, Polar Tracking and Object Snap Tracking. If the ortho  [...]

Zoo 4.0 build 3-Aug-2008 now runs as a Windows Service.The Zoo service starts automatically when the server is restarted, and does not require a user to be logged in.License information is migrated automatically from previous versions of the Zoo, so there should be  [...]

Solidworks 2009 revamps the way that a few of the analysis tools work in the software. Of particular interest is the draft analysis tool. In past releases you were able to perform the analysis, and then exit the tool but [...]

Overall, Smoke 2009 works faster and much more efficiently. It’s an upgrade that’s great for the sanity of VFX artists and editors who are increasingly asked to produce more work in less time.

Shares of United Airlines parent UAL Corp. fell in premarket trading Thursday, a day after the carrier announced plans to cut the jobs of 1,550 flight attendants as it reduces flying this fall.

VisualARQ new website goes live with a new Beta.New in Beta 3:Walls: New command VA_WallReverse reverses the wall direction; the start point becomes the final point, the inner part becomes the outer part, and vice versa.Doors and Windows: They can have any trimming  [...]

A JPMorgan analyst reiterated his "Overweight" rating and $56 price target on shares of Ansys Inc. Thursday, predicting that although economic sluggishness could impede its growth, demand for its products will rise.

Autodesk Labs Marketing Manager, Amanda Collins, filed this report.Like Christmas in July, this is an opportunity to get ready for AU with Autodesk Labs. First up: meet the Autodesk Labs team members who have signed up to teach classes. Now [...]

CGW has provided news from SIGGRAPH generated by our editors and, in the case of new products, from our vendors. Now we are providing you with a unique look at the conference and exhibition from the perspective of four SIGGRPAH SIGGRAPH Student Volunteers who attended the show.

The theme of this year’s Siggraph was “evolve” and the show certainly has evolved. In some ways this evolution was also a consolidation. Many of the art and technology exhibits, which previously had been housed in their own space, now were on the trade show floor. In some ways, this was a welcome change because you could easily take a break from the show to look at art, but this ‘evolution’ also highlighted the evolution of the CG industry. The trade show was noticeably smaller, mostly because of consolidation in the major software companies. In the past few years, Autodesk has bought a number of major companies, and this year was no exception with their purchase of RealVis.