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I got my new computer today. The old one was 3+ years, and it was time. Several SolidWorks models brought it to its knees. Here are the specs for the new one:Read more on New Computer… [more...]

Soon, you could be rendering images, animating 3D scenes, and playing games on a GPU without a GPU. To prove this point, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage on Tuesday May 15, 2012, at the San Jose Convention Center, the site of this year’s GPU Technology  [more...]

The manual for Short Sharp Training issue 1202 is now online. The topic is Introduction to 3D Modeling in Vectorworks. Vectorworks has several ways to work in 3D, but there are some basic principles that you have to understand.Read more... (you have to be a subscriber  [more...]

The manual for Short Sharp Training issue 1201 is now online. The topic is Setting up Layers in Vectorworks. Setting up your layers correctly is essential if you want to use Vectorworks for BIM. Vectorworks 2012 has a new organizing concept called Stories which will  [more...]

Jamparc is a new plug-in for Rhino 4.0 SR9 developed by Jam Parc, an associate manager at Heerim Architects & Planners in Seoul, Korea. Jamparc includes special commands for SketchUp, layer management and architectural tools. You can download it for free at his  [more...]

Choices ICONS TEXT I'm fairly receptive of new things in AutoCAD. Even if I do not adopt something new, I can generally find a reason for why things change. This one though, I still don't get. I can read the words much faster than I can figure out what the little icons  [more...]

The following tutorial from GJD3D uses the new PanelingTools components in Grasshopper to create parametric definition for jewelry design.    [more...]

Those are Kevin Devine’s hands showing a tool changer rack his students designed. Kevin, an associate professor at Illinois State University, presented last week at PLM Connection on using NX in project-based design and build courses. As he notes in our video  [more...]

The designers at Trek used to have both a PC and a MacBook at the desks. Both computers and plenty of time were necessary to translate the 3D files from engineering. But now, according to Lynn, one of the designers, with a single Mac "I run Parallels and a program  [more...]

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today introduced the shared OpenRoads information modeling functionality in its InRoads, GEOPAK, and MXROAD V8i(SELECTseries 3) products for roadway design. … Users of any or all of these products can now benefit from shared innovations  [more...]

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today introduced, at this gathering of infrastructure professionals from around the world, the shared OpenRoads information modeling  [more...]

Go ahead, say it. No, scream it. SUBD to NURBS! Better if it’s done two inches from the secretary’s face immediately after you’ve chugged a bottle of milk. SubD to NURBS indeed. You may wonder what these strange words are. Or, you may know all about  [more...]

Rack workstations. A fabulous remote-client solution that solves the problem of your co-workers ‘accidentally’ kicking the power button on your rig after 6.5 hours of unsaved work. That and avoiding the back-strain of moving workstations around make them  [more...]

CAD-a-Blog is working on several hardware review posts right now that I know you will be interested in seeing. I know how difficult it can be when looking at new hardware. I've been there. Am there. We all need a resource that we can trust for fair, honest, and  [more...]

Leading CAE software provider brings tools to Mac OS X

A number of nice enhancements have been made to the Command Line. You can still have it docked at the bottom or top of the screen, and adjust the height to show previous lines. As always, click on any image to see an enlarged version. As you can see in the image  [more...]

Figulo’s Ceramic Home Décor Design Challenge generated a lot of submissions – 330 by last count. Prizes included $100 cash plus 50% of total profits. Now we just received word that now you can go to Shapeways and buy any of the winning designs! These are  [more...]

Jens Dyvik, currently on a FabLab world tour to research personal manufacturing and open source design, has been kind enough to share his Layer Chair design (Grasshopper definition, Rhino model and fabrication instructions).If you happen to be in Sevilla, don't miss  [more...]

It’s time to break out the short-sleeve shirts! Looking for something new to wear? We have a several choice options for you at iMastercamstore.com, and a few choices that are on special:NEW Item:Mastercam Certified User T-shirt in choice of three colors. Just $15.  [more...]

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I don't recall when this first showed up but I noticed it first in Revit 2012. Here's what it looks like with a right-click in Revit 2013.My first reaction was cool! Then I wondered, "When or why would I use it?". Pondered it for a bit and decided that it might be  [more...]

From Boing Boing – my favorite culture surfing site, an interesting slice of Americana. And Shoes The May 27, 1922 issue of The Evening Independent carried a story about moonshiners wearing “cow shoes” to trick revenuers — rather than leaving  [more...]

See Answer to the tip 8636: (TB2013,Map2013)

Great tip from Steve that I, too, have had to troubleshoot in the past...Dept. of Echo - Don't use the Basic CeilingOriginally posted here August 2009 and still true with Revit 2013When an architect uses the Basic Ceiling-Generic type they are creating a situation  [more...]

I remember a Sketch-Up user showing me this software a year or so ago but I never really dove into it. I could not quite figure out how to connect it with a Revit model. Well, Zack (with a little help from the new .STL export function on Vasari) figure it out! Personally,  [more...]

I first want to apologize to my readers for not blogging more lately. There are two reasons for this. 1) PTC is keeping me way too busy lately and, 2) much of my personal time has been spent on finishing up the following project.It all started about 10 years ago when  [more...]

New Integrated Solution Streamlines CADRA Users’ Move into 3D Environment (PRWeb May 16, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9504610.htm

TROY, Mich., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Altair Engineering, Inc. , a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services , today released the first version of its popular HyperWorks [more...]

Cerebain Biotech Corp. , a subsidiary of Discount Dental Materials, Inc. , announced today that it has signed an agreement with medical device product development company Sonos Models, Inc.

Balaguer Increases Productivity by 5% with PTC’s Creo Parametric.

“Thanks to Creo, we are able to be more competitive and realize orders faster.” Stanislaw Wisznicki, CEO

With more than 200 SolidWorks User Groups worldwide, it's a little hard to keep up with each and every meeting. As part of the reimbursement process, I get some attendance numbers and sometimes some venue information - useful information, but [more...]

As a follow up to my blog post, Autodesk Research Investigates Implanted User Interfaces, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Tovi Grossman, was interviewed by Discovery Channel Canada. // Watch the interview Tovi comes on at 3 minutes into the clip. Giving [more...]

New Applications Enhance Powerful Capabilities for Millions of Design Professionals SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 16, 2012-- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced that several Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) members have released  [more...]

I was reading IT World article early today – GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever. It gives an interesting analyzes in the so-called "open source" field. Despite the broad definition of "open source software", the debates about different  [more...]

So you are an AutoCAD veteran upgrading to new version? If you want to skim through all new key feature in AutoCAD until the latest version, you might want to read this. Preorder Autodesk Official Training Guides 2013 on Amazon. See all titles on CAD Notes e-store  [more...]

I, as many of you might be aware draw with Vectorworks, I have done so for some considerable time, with short intermissions where I worked freelance in practices that used Autocad, this was fine, I got the best of both worlds, I kept up my use of Autocad during the  [more...]

We are very happy to announce the next events for RhinoGold in Dubai. Take advantage of the Training of RhinoGold in Dubai or assist at a 2-hour RhinoGold Presentation to get familiar with the advantages of 3D technology for jewelry. 2-hour FREE RhinoGold Presentation  [more...]

See Answer to the tip 8632: (Inventor2013,Inventor2012)

Lellyett & Rogers Services today announced it will offer the 2013 software portfolio for building design, infrastructure and construction industries from Autodesk, a leader in 3D design software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment  [more...]

Objet posted on their blog that a NEW Desktop 3D Printer is on its way. There are still a few unknown details as to the release. The full announcement will be made on May 22nd. Until then, enjoy this great [more...]

Sometimes the patterning of holes can be to say the least very resource intensive. If you are just looking for the image or illusion of the holes to be there, we have a very lightweight alternative. The feature is called [more...]

After looking at how to bring data from our Apollonian web-service into Unity3D, Android and iOS over the last few weeks, it seemed natural to extend this series to cover HTML. A big thanks to Jeff Geer for suggesting Three.js, [more...]

Estimates of the amount of carbon sequestered in methane hydrates and found in Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along the world's continental shelfs range widely, but is believed to be large and has even been compared to the total [more...]

We have a special love for Michigan because Shorewood Hills near Sawyer was a great place to escape the summer heat in Chicago 50 years ago.But the latest image on Sketching Ypsi doesn't look like and of the light houses you see on the Michigan Lighthouse tour [more...]

I use a program called Evernote. This is a great little program. I use it to collect together notes. For example when I am teaching my online webinars, users quite often suggest things that would be useful. Read more... (you have to be a subscriber to folllow this  [more...]

One of the tools I use a lot is the polygon from inner boundary. But when I use imported polygons, they often have thousands of vertices. With so many vertices the polygon from in a boundary works very slowly because it has so much to calculate.Read more... (you have  [more...]

Delcam?s Brazilian reseller, SEACAM, will demonstrate the latest versions of its range of CADCAM software at the Fiera da Mecanica exhibition to be held in Sao Paolo from 22nd to 26th May.

Here is a short final reminder about the Revit API webcast taking place tomorrow, 25 hours from now. As I mentioned, we are holding it on Thursday, May 17, Ascension Day (register). You can find it together with all the [more...]

SAN JOSE, CA (Marketwire) - GPU Technology Conference -- NVIDIA today announced availability of the NVIDIA(R) Tesla(R) K10 GPU accelerator, designed to address the most difficult challenges in two high-performance computing (HPC) markets: seismic data processing in  [more...]

Project Simulus is our free technology preview that offers geometry modification capabilities to prepare various CAD models for different simulation studies. Project Simulus exploits the power of cloud computing that leaves your desktop free of much of the computational  [more...]

This post should cover all you need to know about FlexNet/FLEXlm ports being used by vendors like Autodesk.Port 2080 is used for by the vendor daemon, for example adskflex.exe Port 27000-27009 is used for the lmgrd.exeThe first lines in an FlexNet license file look  [more...]

Here is a chance to look at an interesting method that we never discussed yet, ConvertToStableRepresentation, and the hidden information that it provides access to. It does what it says, converting a Reference to a stable string representation. Reference and [more...]

 Tailoring CUI for AutoCAD 2013 has been updated, and is now available for purchase. I'll be frank with you in saying that Autodesk did not make many changes to the CUI interface, but any changes that did occur are completely documented by this 200-page  [more...]

Prashant Shukle, Director General of the Mapping Information Branch (MIB), Natural Resources Canada, gave an overview of the Canadian experience in developing a national spatial data infrastructure (SDI). He echoed the Minister of Natural Resource's presentation the  [more...]

For US readers; please tune in for Bones of Turkana on PBS May 16th, 2012. This is a new documentary about the Leakey's human origins research in Kenya's Turkana Basin: http://t.co/si59ckRu

SIMULIA to Announce New Capabilities Powered by 3DExperience Platform, Including New Online Learning Community, Next Generation Solutions for Multiphysics, Design Exploration, and SLM

Transoft Solutions, developers of industry leading software for the transportation engineering community, has just launched version 8.1 for AutoTURN and AutoTURN Pro 3D. New national standard design vehicle libraries have been added, including AASHTO 2011 (USA), MT-DNIT-IP  [more...]