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Coming attractions from Desktop Engineering: April 2010 issue (sent to printer last week) On the cover, racing towards better performance in cd-adapco’s STAR-CCM+ v4.06 Special visualization supplement DEM Solution’s EDEM, how it helps an asphalt manufacturer  [more...]

Well, as long as today's the day to start submitting proposals for Autodesk University 2010 in Las Vegas, what could be better than some Revit families for casinos. Thanks to Justin for posting these.Repost: http://holmansnv.typepad.com/holmansnv/2010/03/the-little-details-count-in-revit.htmlThe  [more...]

Finally...something that makes Revit look as complicated as AutoCAD, LISP routines and all that other junk. Here you can see the brains behind the BIM. Yeah, this stuff is for the propeller heads, but you can at least see what you have to look forward to.Source: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/object-relationships-in-vb.htmlWe  [more...]

Could this be the year that every class at Autodesk University is for Revit and BIM. The way you know how quickly Revit is being adopted is by the number of Revit based classes that are displacing AutoCAD classes. If you still need 90 tips in 90 minutes after 28  [more...]

Repost: http://revitclinic.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/plan-regions-wall-cleanups-and-large-coordinates.htmlThe symptom of this condition are wall cleanups which vary from view to view. For example a primary view and a dependent view. If you come across walls  [more...]

Great tip from the Revit Clinic... I run into this problem all the time and used the same basic tip to fix it:Plan Regions Wall Cleanups and Large CoordinatesThe symptom of this condition are wall cleanups which vary from view to view. For example a primary view and  [more...]

Autodesk has just provided a BIM Deployment Plan that is similar to others I have seen but is very much worth the read. Here is the link…  http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?id=14652957&siteID=123112 The Autodesk BIM Deployment Plan offers tools and  [more...]

Cover the Ward!Parapractice Brooklyn invites students and professionals to attend two weekend workshops exploring the exciting world of Digital Design + Fabrication.The workshop will introduce participants to Parametric Design strategies and conclude with the fabrication  [more...]

I have been getting some encouraging comments on the previous Revit Sweeperposts:From Dave:Just for fun and to add a deeper level of explanation-Starting back in the good old days of DOS and perhaps earlier, the wild card character "*" meant search for any number of  [more...]

The following tutorials have been added to the Civil 3D Library at I.II.I one.to.one: PRO104 How to Modify Profile Views for Perfect Sheet Placement The dynamic relationships Civil 3D builds are incredible. While learning how the software functions, and creating  [more...]

Basel, Switzerland, March 18-25 2010.BaselWorld is the leading event for the watch and jewellery industry. A unique opportunity where 2,100 exhibitors - specialists in watches, jewellery, precious gems and related brands - showcase their latest products to those in  [more...]

If you are in the Northern California area, you’ve may have already seen an email from one of the SolidWorks User Groups about the upcoming SWUGN Technical Summit at the Embassy Suites in Milpitas.  SWUGN Technical Summits are day-long SolidWorks based conferences  [more...]

Lightworks to be showcased at KBB Show. Leading Interiors applications are powered by Lightworks rendering technologies.

What a lucky guy! Our paper-fighting superhero Mighty Bluebeam is back from Ecobuild, and boy does he have some stories to tell. From March 2nd to 4th, he and a handful of my Bluebeam colleagues exhibited at this London conference, dubbed the world’s largest event  [more...]

Nemetschek offers Top Ten Tricks Series Webcasts Again - Showcases Top features in Vectorworks 2010 series products.

Autodesk, Inc. , has named M2 Technologies, Reseller of the Quarter for North America for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2010. Autodesk selected M2 Technologies from more than 100 North American resellers, recognizing the company's dedication to customer success  [more...]

I found the following “device” in my mail box today- Google Apps Saving Calculator.The Out-Of-The-Box functionality is damn simple. You select number of people in the organization on the top and see how much $$$ you are going to save when you move to Google  [more...]

The FCC's Consumer Broadband Test enables US consumers to test the quality of their broadband connections. The FCC says it may use data collected when you run the Consumer Broadband Test, along with a street address you may have contributed, [more...]

With Mastercam Feature Based Machining the toolpaths are created using features from the solid, and the operations are automatically generated. This should result less programing time and also give less skilled programmers an advantage. But does it work? the answer  [more...]

The symptom of this condition are wall cleanups which vary from view to view. For example a primary view and a dependent view. If you come across walls not cleaning up as expected in one view let's look at the [more...]

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Mar 17, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), has named M2 Technologies Reseller of the Quarter for North America for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2010. Autodesk selected M2 Technologies from  [more...]

The Autodesk BIM Deployment Plan is a Free, Web-accessible Resource Offering Tools and Guidance Based on Real-World PracticesSAN RAFAEL, Calif., Mar 17, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering  [more...]

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, today’s tip is on the Design Center. Where’s the connection, you ask? St. Patrick’s Day = Green = Recycling = Reusing Content = Design Center. (Hey, just go with it.) At the folder level, [more...]

Water usage statistics from the City of Ottawa show a sudden spike after Canada's overtime win, as lavatories across town were flushed near simultaneously, peaking at about 6:20 p.m. on game day. There was a jump in water consumption right [more...]

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Autodesk, Inc. , has named M2 Technologies Reseller of the Quarter for North America for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2010. Autodesk selected M2 Technologies from more than 100 North American resellers.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Autodesk, Inc. , a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering software, announced the availability of its Autodesk BIM Deployment Plan: A Practical Framework for Implementing BIM, a new web-accessible resource for building industry professionals. [more...]

Informative Graphics's Net-It Enterprise 7.0 automatic document publishing software converts any size of AutoCAD, MicroStation, or SolidWorks drawing into a Microsoft Deep Zoom image.Once converted, the images can be viewed on the Seadragon iPhone app, as well  [more...]

Most software companies tend to “surprise” us with their new release. Feels like a surprise, to us the user. In fact, I suspect its just as much a surprise to the development/release team as well. Up until about two years ago, we followed this same paradigm.  [more...]

Flurry has estimated the sales numbers for the first 74 days of the launch of the original iPhone and the Motorola Droid, which uses the open source Google Android OS. 74 days was the period chosen because that's the time [more...]

I don’t know Peter, other than via following his his “Not PC” personal blog for several years, but do like his style. Have a look at his architectural blog which recently launched with a lot of content. While it is a “commercial blog”, as features his work, there  [more...]

IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - March 17, 2010) - EON Reality, Inc., the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, today announced that Las Vegas Natural History Museum in Las Vegas, NV, has selected EON Reality's burial chamber of king Tutankhamun simulation and  [more...]

Calabasas, Calif. - Emergent Game Technologies, a provider of 3D game development solutions, and AiLive Inc., provider of motion-controlled gaming, announced a product integration between LiveMove 2 and Emergent's cross-platform game development system, Gamebryo LightSpeed. [more...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—March 17, 2010—NVIDIA Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced an extension of its existing stock repurchase program, under which it may purchase up to $2.7 billion of its common stock through May 2013.

K-Factor!?!?!? What the heck is it? How does it relate to our parts unfolding? K-Factor is a way to determine what face (or cross section) of our piece of sheet metal remains at the same length. ... Do you want to know how to create sections in 3D? How about forgotten  [more...]

Repost: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/access-extrusions-in-a-family.htmlI am very busy right now preparing for the next Revit API training class which will be held in Warsaw, Poland, just after Easter. For a full list of upcoming Revit API classes,  [more...]

Autodesk BIM Deployment Plan is now available online. Read the press release here http://bit.ly/by3ngA and download the plan and worksheets at www.autodesk.com/bimdeploymentplan. I’ve spent the last few days going through it and it aligns very closely with the  [more...]

Autodesk BIM Deployment Plan can be useful if you manage processes and collaborate during building information modeling (BIM) projects. “New technology is creating enormous opportunities for the building industry to improve processes and outcomes, and many organizations  [more...]

ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - March 17, 2010) - Quickparts ( http://www.quickparts.com ), one of North America's largest providers of custom designed parts, ranging from rapid prototyping to plastic injection molding , today announced the availability of Bluestone, a  [more...]

Long Beach-based Apriso, a developer of manufacturing software, reported today that it has linked with Dassault Systemes, a developer of 3D and product lifecycle management software. Apriso said it has signed a Component Application Architecture (CAA) Software Partnership  [more...]

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it is accepting entries for the 2010 Be Inspired Awards competition.

ZWSOFT yesterday posted a video on YouTube showing its software responding to a touch screen. In it, we see:- Pan and 3D swivel (drag)- Zoom (pinch)- Drawing and copying (touch)- Shortcut menus (long touch)Even though ZWSOFT is located in China, the video seems to  [more...]

Autodesk Revit Model Review is quite a powerful tool, of course I may be a bit biased about that. Over the last few weeks I have seen more requests asking about advanced topics for Model Review. It seems that Revit users are starting to push this beyond the OOTB checks  [more...]

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Apriso®, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions for sustained operations excellence, and Dassault Systèmes , a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management solutions, announced today that a Component Application Architecture  [more...]

QUAKERTOWN, Pa. , March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Synergis Engineering Design Solutions, a division of Synergis Technologies, Inc., has been named Autodesk, Inc. Top Reseller in Overall Manufacturing Solutions Sales Growth for fiscal year 2010. Â This is the fourth time in  [more...]

March 17 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures gained, indicating the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may remain at a 17- month high, on analyst upgrades and signs the economic rebound is strengthening without stoking inflation.

The closing keynote for the Innovation Leadership Summit was Jason Jennings, an avid researcher and author of numerous business books.In his research, Jason has studied data on 120,000 companies. He looks at metrics like revenue per employee and return on assets and  [more...]

Technology Enables Viewing of Large CAD Files as Deep Zoom Images Via Customized Microsoft Silverlight, Seadragon AJAX and the Seadragon iPhone App

The AutoCAD Product Design and Usability Group wants your feedback and input on making and using linetypes in AutoCAD. I know there are people out there with linetype wishes, because I see them on the AUGI wish list... Maybe you would like an easy way to make a linetype  [more...]

The Autodesk Gallery at One Market has a variety of exhibits. Since I am one of the new ambassadors for the gallery, I thought I would locate what information is out there for the exhibits in our gallery. I found [more...]

At our last Innovation Leadership Summit, Bill Duggan from Teradyne talked about PLM as the “backbone of innovation.” Bill shared that despite the tough economy – what he calls an “economic blizzard” – they continue to invest in that backbone and now focus on creating  [more...]

We recently presented Saikat Bhattacharya's neat little object relationship analyser and displayer, implemented in C#. Yesterday I received a very friendly submission from Jose Guia saying "Thought I would share my code as well, ... I converted the project to [more...]

I think this perfectly conveys the thought of my other blog post today about WordPerfect. There you are, perfectly content with your product or program, thinking everything is fine and then, BAM, you're instantly a blip on the technology timeline. Jeff, it was great  [more...]

Q: Which will yield the most BTUs of energy--a gallon of oil, a pound of coal or a gallon of gasoline? A: A gallon of oil.

...and on the other end of the spectrum, we have Autodesk telling you to keep doing 2D. Make up your mind. It's either BIM or bust. We can't be sending mixed signals. OK, well, Revit Architecture Suite does include a free copy of Revit with every seat of AutoCAD.  [more...]

Here's one from my favorite IPD lawyer, James Salmon. You think you're having problems moving to BIM. Wait until you do your first IPD project. Of course, what 2 person firm is going to be able to afford the lawyer to review the contract? Are you just going to  [more...]

...and then I read something like this today that confirms there are others out there with the same thoughts...Source: http://buildinginformationmanagement.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/is-bim-fundamentally-flawed/I just read a post asking if BIM fundamentally flawed in  [more...]

Darn it. Jason beat me to the punch on Seth Godin's blog post today. I'm still not sure how every Godin post seems to relate to the architecture industry, but maybe that's why he's written books and is a marketing genius. I don't want to repeat what Jason writes  [more...]

I know you all got your start loving LEGO Bricks growing up. Did you ever look at the LEGO website? They have brainwashed you into becoming builders and architects without you knowing it. From the Vision page: link Creative and structured problem-solving, curiosity  [more...]

Tonight after work I attended a presentation at our corporate headquarters. Barbara Wander, a retired school teacher from San Rafael, was driving to a school in Haiti on January 12 when the 7.0 earthquake struck killing thousands and displacing 3,000,000 [more...]

Sometimes Twitter just doesn't have enough letters... After taking a couple of my older PCs and getting them back up to usable status, I gave them to a friend from the office. One went to a guy from his church - out of work, and his machine failed. The other, newer  [more...]

Delcam will be promoting its full range of CAM software and services at the MetalTech exhibition to be held in Kuala Lumpur from 5th to 9th May.

Abaqus FEA Associative Integration with SolidWorks CAD Software Accelerates Medical Device Innovation

Design and Engineering within yacht industry has undergone major changes the last years and face always new demands on environment aspects and performance.

This is a quick little UIScrollView wrapper that helps create a looping scroll view. It was thrown together as an example and really needs a lot of clean up. It also features a pushViewController message that will stick a new view controller in the scroll view and  [more...]