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In a press release dated July 2, 2008, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced that Adobe had relinquished control of the PDF format to ISO: The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for [...]

Today we continue our discussion on using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008. Be sure you go back and read my previous post Creating Your BOM Template and Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008 before reading on. I would also highly recommend Josh’s coverage of BOM at SolidSmack,  [...]

If you'd like to see or modify your part attributes outside of NX, here's a simple trick :-Click on Start - Run... and type the following :regsrv32 "C:\Program Files\UGS\NX 5.0\UGII\ugpropext.dll"-You'll see that the dll has been registered successfully.-Log off and  [...]

Melbourne, FL -- VX Corporation, specializing in CAD/CAM for consumer products, molds and machining, announced the selection of VX by prominent global recreational vehicle and automotive manufacturers.[...]

I realize that since I have been asking my readers to subscribe to my RSS feed, that some of my less tech-savvy readers might not know what that means. A RSS feed, Really Simple Syndication, delivers blog entries, News Headlines and Podcast to an aggregator or RSS  [...]

Pixar’s latest industrious undertaking has hit the screens in the US, a story of a lonely robot meant for greater things. Spending his years on Earth cleaning up humanities garbage, the little trash compacter has more gizmos than a Swiss Army knife and more soul than his hollow chest can hold.
The artist’s quest to create him is a story that rivals WALL•E’s own. (William) Austin Lee, Character Modeler and Articulation Artist, and Animator Doug Frankel discuss how they brought the character to life, and Keith (Daniel) Klohn, one of the Effects Sequence Leads, shares how he accomplished some of the digital effects on the film. [...]

Here is the agreement whereby softelec hands over the RasterDWG trademark to Autodesk "for good and valuable consideration":It's not noted in this agreement, but softelec gets to continue using the RasterDWG name. Autodesk owns it, but softelect uses it. Could this  [...]

A visual tutorial that shows the creation process of a car drawing using pencils, markers and pastels.

Hey Folks! This is a test and only a test. If all works well only RSS subscribers will see this message. Pay attention to your feed because within the next couple of days you will be receiving your first clue for our RSS contest. -The SolidWorks Geek

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 [...]

Suddenly and without warning, I leapt to my feet, only to realize I had no feet and the ceiling was much shorter than it was when I had a beard. That can really throw off your concentration. Fortunately I came across these links. Desktop wallpaper for July - I was  [...]

Structural Design, Analysis and Production "... Simplicity of construction, clarity of tectonic means, and purity of materials has about them the glow of pristine beauty." Ludwig Mies van der Rohe The Role of Structure in Architectural Design A buildingÂ?s architectural design and its physical structure are closely interrelated: on the one hand, the architectural design of the building defines the structure; on the other hand, the structural design of a building reflects the overall architectural design. As structure has become a visual and aesthetic part of the design in modern architect

I’ve opened a poll asking for your opinion about whether the 12-month release cycle of AutoCAD and its variants is harmful to the quality of the software that Autodesk is providing. I won’t express my own opinion on this subject here yet, but will do so  [...]

AutoCAD 2002 and higher versions In AutoCAD, axis that are perpendicular to coordinate system ‘orthographic‘ axis. Our drawings are generally developed by using these axes. However, depending up on the drawing discipline, i.e. surveying, highway engineering, we have  [...]

Just a quick post [...] I've been (and am still) on vacation this week (not doing anything very exciting, mostly cutting hedges and other miscellaneous garden work), but I queued up a few posts in order to keep things moving along [...]

Image source: http://www.wpclipart.com/world_history/ape_man_evolution.png User Assistance Manager, Chris Blocher, used to write documentation for Autodesk Design Review. One day he sent me the following: Chris noted how viewing designs had evolved from Autodesk View,  [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- EDA giant Mentor Graphics Corp. has apparently taken over Flomerics Group plc, a simulation software maker, for $60 million, according to reports.

Happy 4th of July everyone - I have three items I’m looking to unload. 1. Lowepro Vertex 200AW bag. I was planning on a photo trek and bought this bag, as it can carry my big 1D Mk III, the 300mm, the 85, my 15″ laptop, memory cards, cables, and more. I  [...]

Simpoe is planning to deliver a basic injection mould filling simulation tool, called "e-Simpoe " including melt front animation, for free, as a download. It can also be used as a viewer to interact with simulation results performed with any of the commercial Simpoe  [...]

It seems that raising its bid by 17% (to around $60 million) got Mentor Graphics got Flomerics after all. In one of the most public attempts to sell an organisation for a while, the electronics engineering specialist finally got hold of all that lovely CFD code that  [...]

David Duarte posted a reply to a thread on this subject at AUGI stating that the Worksharing Monitor tool (available via Autodesk Subscription) does not detect activity with files that contain an additional period (.) in the file name.For example: MyAwesomeProject.NoReally.central.rvtI  [...]

I posted this at the HOK CAD Solutions blog regarding this issue today and I am providing a link here just in case you don't visit their blog...yet...Keep it Legal!! [...]

I'm writing this here because I don't want to muddy the waters at the Revit Inside blog with a new post. First, thanks to every firm that has asked to be on the list. It has grown steadily and even more so lately. The number of requests has tripled in the last few  [...]

Many would ask: Why should I bother doing all this? What’s in it for me? What will I gain by being a Thought Leader? Let me list a few things that I think make it an advantage to you and your career to become a Thought Leader. Admittedly these are from my [...]

I have MSDN access through my ISV Empower subscription and noticed that I could access Expression Web 1 but not Expression Web 2. Version 2 was greyed and not available. I got confirmed from Microsoft that this was the case and that this media is only available for  [...]

I previously discussed threaded hole callouts in the context of SolidWorks and its calloutformat.txt files (Part 1 and Part 2). As mentioned before, there is a tendency for some to callout threaded holes with too much information. Often, the thread callouts include  [...]

David Fano has turned David Ruttens ’s Shift Example into a very nice video tutorial. [...]

Patricia Muñoz's "Morfologia" students at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo are showing their projects on YouTube. [...]

I know what you’re going through. Every time you boot your computer the Windows ‘Bliss’ background, circa 2001, burns holes right through your retinas. You desire something with a little more snap. Maybe a cool looking product design. huh? yeah? Then  [...]

Starting with AutoCAD 2008, you now have direct access to the Layer States Manager, without opening the LAYER dialog first.In AutoCAD 2008, click the button on the far right of the LAYERS toolbar.In AutoCAD 2009, click the button shown below:Once you get the Layer  [...]

I have written several times on here about the benefits of participating in the online Solidworks Community. Devon Sowell posted an interview today with a guy named Gary Swingle who happened to be the 50,000th person to join the Solidworks [...]

I just noticed a post on Shaan Hurley's blog revealing that the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2009 Bible is nowavailable.As I mentioned, I've been lucky enough to have been able to assist Ellen Finkelstein in the updating of her priceless teaching and reference work for the  [...]

nVidia's market value dropped $2.6 billion overnight after it admitted it has a big problem with faulty GPUs used in some notebook computers -- as well as weaker demand for its products and downward pressure on prices from archrival ATI.  After making $1.15 billion  [...]

The inspiration for this post came from a question a friend asked me about an alternative way to have a component in an assembly display in different colors, without using a configuration for each of the colors. He complained that [...]

Our old pal, Senior Manager of Worldwide DevTech, Kean Walmsley, has an article about Project Draw on his Through the Interface blog: Getting to know the Project Draw API Recall that Project Draw 0.7.5 featured a new API call to [...]

I just read an entertaining column from one of my favorite local Post-Dispatch writers, Bob R (I can't spell his last name, but, I can pronounce it!).He's written a piece with examples of how nerds, dorks and geeks are taking over America, from business to movies and  [...]

First Phase of Multi-Year Deployment to Help Scientific Community Solve 'The Most Challenging Problems of Our Time'

The Read Me for the UI Technology Preview for Autodesk Inventor 2009 is available at: http://labs.autodesk.com/files/201_300/270/file_270.pdf OK - don't everyone click at once. I am familiar with the fact that not everyone reads the read me. On the other hand, [...]

Architectural Design with Rhinoceros On the 14th July, for the launch of the first Italian Rhinoceros course for architectural modeling , (covering both conceptual and practical modeling) you are invited to the presentation of Rhinoceros in architecture. During the  [...]

Delcam is pleased to announce that the company's series of on-line forums for users of its CADCAM software now share over 10,000 members.