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Ralph Grabowski left this very interesting comment to my post “The Deafening Silence From SolidWorks On The Cloud“. Jeff Ray told some of us over lunch that their non-Windows development is located in a “skunkworks” about ten miles from SolidWorks  [more...]

Draftsight (free .dwg 2D editor) is currently under public beta release.  Users are welcome to try it out and use it.  The beta release EULA seems to make some statements about how Draftsight may or may not be used.  Many users have expressed concern that the EULA  [more...]

At the end of a Q&A with the CAD media, Virgin ceo Richard Brandson complained to us about the low number of women in engineering, and challenged us to do "something" about it. He didn't know what that "something" was, but in a room filled with a majority of  [more...]

Opteron and FirePro were the tools behind the film. Central processing unit - Graphics processing unit - Business - Construction and Maintenance - Hardware

For whatever reason, SolidWorks employees working on beta cannot hear you when you tell them about bugs that exist in previous versions. It’s as if its “somebody else’s job” – a sure sign of corporate bureaucracy gone amok. I find this  [more...]

After making a tremendous amount of noise about running SolidWorks on the Cloud and even showing it on stage at SolidWorks World 2010 in January this year, the company decided to stay absolutely silent on the topic for the next half a year. Not a word. This led to  [more...]

Blow the beet juice out of your mouth. This week SolidWorks 2011 is launched. We could ask the same questions we did last year and we could also bore 1/4-20 screws into our head. We will do neither. What we want to know is one thing, is 2011 better. Is it better than  [more...]

Hello Bluebeamers – we need your help! Nominations for the UK’s Construction Computing “Hammers” Awards are underway and due September 7th. This annual awards program honors the industry’s top software and hardware vendors. If you’re a happy Bluebeam user, it only  [more...]

We posted a beta version of AccuRender nXt for Revit that works with Revit 2011.We still need to get Decals and RPC objects working, but would appreciate any one who can help us test this, to see what else still needs work.See: AccuRender nXt for Revit [more...]

TDM Solutions and PROTO3D.ES will be showing RhinoGold 3.0 at IBERJOYA 2010. From the 8th to the 12th, see the new tools of the last version RhinoGold 3.0. See RhinoGold 3.0 working in live! Where to find RhinoGold: Dates: from Wed 08 to Sun 12 of Sept 2010 Place:  [more...]

This post is courtesy of Users of feature-based parametric modelers are constantly frustrated by the fact that imported models often are treated as “dumb solids” by the CAD package since the features cannot be recognized by the application.A more accurate  [more...]

“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” Marcus Aurelius Recently the question came up, “Is it possible to combine components or sub assemblies and have them... Do you want to know how to create sections in 3D? How about forgotten  [more...]

If you haven’t checked this out from the Autodesk Labs site, you should go get it now! http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/acad_perf_mon/ This little gadget runs on your desktop and will let you know the level of virtual memory used. For more memory-related posts [more...]

CAD tip for ACAD: After you start AutoCAD, you get a strange unreadable messagebox "AutoCAD Message" that looks like this: This is a result of a virus infection with the ACAD.QFAS virus (also known as ...  [more...]

Yesterday Scott Sheppard announced the availability of this plugin over on It’s Alive in the Lab. We originally received a request for this Plugin of the Month some time ago. Fenton Webb, from our DevTech Americas team, developed the initial [more...]

The user interface in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2011 is getting some much needed, though incremental, improvement. All Enterprise PDM commands are now grouped into four menus that appear just above the file view pane in SolidWorks and Windows Explorer.  The advantage  [more...]

Korean online game developers MAIET Entertainment and WeMade Entertainment have both licensed Autodesk's Kynapse artificial intelligence middleware for their respective upcoming titles. Used in more than 100 titles, Kynapse's AI technology for nonplayer characters  [more...]

When a substrate layer is added to a floor's structure, it will cut the slab edge, rather than the edge cutting through and directly attaching to the slab. While some of you may be aware of possible ways to work [more...]

SAN RAFAEL -- A Massachusetts-based construction industry software startup today said Autodesk Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) led a $6 million series B round of equity financing.

Here are the complete instructions to develop a F1inSchools SolidWorks 2010 car with a step-by-step .pdf and 2010 model files for the complete project. Create the body part, car assembly and drawings. perform a stress analysis for the axle and [more...]

OK. Everybody is talking about it. Many people have been requesting this for over 10 years now. And now Autodesk finally announced the imminent release of the mac-version of their still popular AutoCAD drafting and modeling software.What it is and what it does, you  [more...]

CAD tip for ACAD, Inventor, Revit, Civil, 3dsmax, DWG: Neither AutoCAD, nor Inventor and Revit can import STL files (stereolithography). They can olny export STL files as a part of their "3D printing" functionality. If you want to use ...  [more...]

Summer is finally over. This is a good reason to stop talking about fancy social software and cool Apple’s features. Let’s move back to the core of design, engineering and manufacturing. Yes, I’d like to talk about Bill of Materials. The following  [more...]

The new release (12 already) of Cinema4D restructures the different editions and promises more advanced rendering and character animation (among others).A comparison between the different editions can be found on http://www.maxon.net/products/general-information/general-information/product-comparison.html.  [more...]

AutoCAD is a powerful program. With power comes the need for system resources. You can get an indicator of how much virtual memory AutoCAD is using with a new technology preview that is available on Autodesk Labs. Free Download of [more...]

Aug 24, 2010 – Kolkata, India, August 24, 2010 – Sketchup4architect.com proudly announces launching of an online magazine ‘Sketch up ur Space’, exclusively deals with the Google Sketchup on 6th September. This hi-tech E-magazine will surely create a wave among the  [more...]

Rich and Al attended 3D Basecamp today and learned lots about the new release of SketchUp 8.The SketchUp folks have done a great job of giving us a new release - top on the list of new things were: Improved Geophysical capabilities for modeling buildings using Google  [more...]

Turns out only 2 people requested the handrail routine I offered for free about a year ago.If you wonder what these may be about, check out Utube, with bilroCAD in the search box.Kind of makes me wonder what planet I was on when I thought maybe I could make a small  [more...]

A new small and cheap (5 EUR or less) product DwgNotes is now available.Add notes or comments in AutoCAD DWG files and optionally be notified if there are notes when the drawing is opened.One or multiple notes can be added, edited or deleted.You can use these notes  [more...]

Since its debut over two years ago, our user base has grown increasingly more savvy when it comes to sustainable design. As such we have retired the Sustainable Materials Assistant for Inventor technology preview. In the spirit of Labs and [more...]

Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc. and Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management software and services, today announced an integrated Teamcenter® software based  [more...]

SolidWorks 2011 promises to have better performance and reliability in a few areas.  This is a topic that sometimes is not well represented in the What’s New file that are included with SolidWorks products.  However, the improvements are still very important.  [more...]

Google released SketchUp version 8 today and I am pleased to announce that each of our 13 data exchange plug-ins for SketchUp have been tested to work with this new version. Our subscription customers can download the latest installers from the SketchUp section of  [more...]

A short video presentation covering my top 6 strategies for getting the most business value from FEA and CFD. The original working title was Brains and Hats. [more...]

Ping Fu's globetrotting and hobnobbing continues. The CEO of RTP's Geomagic, recently hung out with late-night icon Jay Leno at his "Big Dog Garage" in Southern California.

Included below are 2 videos covering some approaches for using adaptive components to create forms in Revit 2011: Full Size Video Link Full Size Video Link

By now most everyone has heard about AutoCAD for Mac. The AutoCAD built to run on the Apple computer. There’s promise of apps that will run on the I-Pad and I-Pod Touch coming out soon. So how about taking it a step farther. OK we all want to Run AutoCAD MAP3D on a  [more...]

Maxon Computer introduces CINEMA 4D Release 12

Lynn Allen has a pet goat named “Leno. Since I had the special opportunity to visit with Jay Leno last weekend in Burbank California, I asked him to autograph the photo of Lynn’s goat named “leno”. I just did not mention to Jay that she also has a goat named “Conan”. [more...]

4D Technologies, an Autodesk Authorized Publisher specializing in self-paced eLearning for CAD and BIM software, announced today that it has published its CADLearning Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 Tutorial Series.

One of the problems with doing visualizations is needing to mask out or hide the portion of the existing surface which is above the proposed surface. I’m working on a quick way to accomplish the task that doesn’t include manually extracting the surface border of the  [more...]

The system variable PICKADD has been changed for 2011. Most people probably will not notice, but I like it. Previously, there were 2 choices for this variable, 0 and 1. A setting of 2 was added. See the summary below.0 - means that only your last selection is valid.  [more...]

Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software division has signed up three new resellers to extend its reach across Australia and New Zealand.

If you are reading this post than you probably already know how great this blog is. Right? :) You know how great it would be if computer can tell you if there is something new for your on Being Civil. [more...]

Delcam will unveil new dedicated options for the programming and simulation of bar-fed mills in its PartMaker software on booth E-3922 at IMTS 2010 in Chicago.

Word to the Wise: Workspaces. Workspace definition (per the Help menu): Workspaces are sets of menus, toolbars, palettes, and ribbon control panels that are grouped and organized so that you can work in a custom, task-oriented drawing environment.  [more...]