Join Pulse If you would like to be included in Pulse, please submit your news, press releases, or blog URL to pulse@novedge.com Novedge reserves the right to exclude certain items from Pulse. | Novedge Novedge Pulse Latest NewsLatest Blog Posts and NewsYesterday Between the Lines Blog Import Rhino 3DM File Into AutoCADImport Rhino 3DM files and many other formats into AutoCAD. Today Sustainable Minds Industry Blog NEW: Custom Data Creation Progam. Have it your way.Image : sm_logo_blogposts.gif Add the life cycle data you need to model the environmental performance of your products. Sustainable Minds enables product development teams to rapidly model the environmental performance of products in the earliest stages of R&D. [more...] Today Render Plus Systems Blog Rotating HDRi Skies and BackgroundsThere is a Rotation setting on HDRi skies and backgrounds which lets you rotate the HDRi. But it is rather difficult to use - since you often have to rotate the HDRI, re-render, view the result, and repeat until you get what you want.RIch has a created a new video: [more...] Today CAD Panacea Blog Autodesk and Lenovo :: Technology MakeoverLast month, I wrote an article for the CADSPEED blog describing a great program where Autodesk and Lenovo teamed up to outfit a deserving small business with new hardware, software, and training - at no cost. Yes, you read that right. FREE software, hardware, software, [more...] Today GrabCAD Blog Tutorials on GrabCAD! Solidworks Tutorial Challenge ResultsWe’re happy to announce the winners of our Solidworks tutorial challenge! We selected the 10 best out of 66 entries by tallying the number of “It worked” clicks on each tutorial. This challenge was Solidworks-specific. But keep your eyes peeled for [more...] Today Deelip Menezes's Blog 15 3D Printed Samples For $60Browsing around the Quickparts site today I came across this page advertising a kit containing 15 SLA, SLS, FDM, PolyJet and Cast Urethene samples for $60 plus shipping. It also includes an injection molding design guide. Quickparts is a 3D Systems brand. So I asked [more...] Today The MEP CAD Engineer Back to the blog...and Autodesk turns 30!Been taking a break from posting for a while, it's been a busy winter...had a few thoughts on the last several years...Autodesk turned 30 a few days ago, and it's amazing the impact they've had on the design industry. It's definitely been an evolution. Who wouldn't [more...] Today News From Yahoo Defiance Tech in talks with Dassault for cloud solutionsHinduja Group company Defiance Technologies is planning to partner Dassault Systèmes, a Paris-based provider of 3D product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, to deliver its offerings using the former’s cloud-compatible architecture technology. Today Revit OpEd Blog Oh Where Art Thou Camera?I wrote a post in March 2008 about this, still waiting. It would be excellent if in plan we could document where a camera is placed. Sure we can create a family to document where they are but that doesn't provide the automatic view reference that other view annotation [more...] Today Graphisoft News Creating a bold design with ArchiCAD using curved surfaces _filtered ;Creating a bold design with ArchiCAD using curved surfaces ArtechnicThe residential building “SHELL” -- ArchiCAD 15’s global signature building -- maintains the harmony with the environment in [more...] Today Architosh News e-on Software releases LumenRT 2: focus on architectse-on Software is pushing hard with LumenRT 2 - focusing on the rendering needs of architects Today The lazy Drafter blog Technology MakeoverMy wife loves a makeover show. Me... not so much until I found this one. What brings out your inner beauty more than new hardware and software? If you are ready to glow with the confidence that only a complete technology makeover can provide. Check out the rules and [more...] Today Robot Overlords PlayUp Lets You Hang Out With Sports Fans And NFL StarsSports social media app PlayUp is connecting sports fans around the world in real time. Today Daily PLM Think Tank PLM architecture discussion with Peter Schroer of ArasIf you followed my comments on one of previous posts – Cloud PLM and IT Basic Instincts, I promised to have a conversation with Aras about PLM architecture. On Wednesday, I had a chance to visit Aras Corp. office in Andover, MA and had long conversation with [more...] Today News From Yahoo SofTech Adopts Rights Agreement Designed to Preserve Use of NOLsSofTech, Inc. , a proven provider of Product Lifecycle Management solutions today announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a rights agreement (the “Righ Today News From Yahoo Arena Grows New Business 19% in 2011FOSTER CITY, CA-- - Arena Solutions , a provider of cloud-based bill of materials and change management software for small and mid-size manufacturers, today announced a 19% increase in new customers for [more...] Today CAD & 3D DAZ 3D gives away their Pro software for freeIn an unusual (or panic?) move, 3D software developer DAZ 3D gives away its three major content creation and rendering software for free for a limited time (29th of February 2012). These are unlimited and complete software applications, which used to be commercial [more...] Today The Revit Kid Revit Tip - Why is My Stair Only Showing "UP" Label??Someone in my office could not figure out why, no matter what the view was set to, the stairs in Floor Plan view only showed the Up label. Sections were cut, stairs were redrawn, etc... Couldn't figure it out!Well, in case you happen to run into this problem here [more...] Today SolidSmack Blog The End is Nigh… Swarm of Nano Quatrotors in ActionI don’t like it, not one bit. Last night I awoke to a buzzing sound. I open my window and there, before my eyes, a swarm of quadrotors pulling maneuvers, laying waste to the neighborhood, scaring children and cats… Take a look. It could happen. Quadrotor [more...] Today SolidSmack Blog Friday Smackdown: Greela MachinaBlown up bandages wrapped the wires and wimples of the war torn wasteland. It would indeed be a challenge to find. Bending back sheets of steel from the surface, he began. Days turned to months, months turned to years and one afternoon, a glow from the ground and the [more...] Today CATI Tech Notes Depth of Field Focal PointAn amazing feature to generate nice crisp images that focus on a specific feature.It lets you blur portions of the scene while keeping specific components in focus, regardless of where you move them on the screen. The depth of field [more...] Today Fisher/Unitech blog Free SolidProfessor WebinarSolidWorks Solutions Partner, SolidProfessor will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday, February 9th at 12 PM ET/ 11 AM CT. It will be about 30 minutes in length and cover these... Do you want to know how to create sections in 3D? How about forgotten sketch techniques? [more...] Today Kevin Lee Allen Design Blog Bubeshko ApartmentsDwell brings the Bubeshko Apartments to our attention. I suppose if we lived in LA, we would either live here or know the building. Either way, we would have happily observed a recent restoration and necessary updating of this Rudolph Schindler building by DSH Architects. [more...] Today CATI Tech Notes NAFEMS Benchmarks SolidWorks SimulationWhen you install SolidWorks Simulation, NAFMES benchmarks are installed by defualt. I would highly recommend everyone to go through atleast a few of them. The goal here is to see how NAFEMS quantifies Solidworks Simulation results, and if possible to [more...] Today SolidWorks Blog SolidWorks World 2012 Partner Profile: Simpoe #sww12It's only nine days until SolidWorks World 2012, and the partner profiles keep rolling in. Today, we hear from Simpoe. If you're at the event later this month, stop by and say hi. And if you still haven't registered, there's till time. If you pay for two registrations, [more...] Today Learn.Create.Succeed Blog French Students Excel in STEM Education with Support from SolidWorks VAR CadWareBefore Science, Technology, Education and Math (STEM) became a well used acronym in US education, French students learned to use SolidWorks as a visualization tool in order to understand concepts in simple machines, laws of physics, mathematics, and how things [more...] Today Rhino News, etc. Blog Badger 1.0 - the batch renderer for Rhino - Released!Hi all!We've just put the finishing touches to "Badger" - the batch rendererplug-in for Rhino. You can download an trial version from here:http://www.badger3d.comIt's designed to work with all Rhino compatible renderers, and it's greatfor setting up overnight render [more...] Today CATI Tech Notes Suppressing Sketch Relations in SolidWorksI ran across a discussion at a recent user group meeting in where someone asked me if it was possible to create part configurations where the same sketch segment could have two different sketch relations. I wasn’t sure if this [more...] Today GrabCAD Blog Interview with Design Director of LEGOI had the opportunity to speak with Rosario Costa, Design Director of LEGO Group, one of the world’s largest toy manufacturers originating from Denmark with over 10,000 employees. I asked her about the design work they do at Lego. Rosario Costa. Photo by Niels [more...] Today Robot Overlords Astronomers Identify Another Possibly Habitable PlanetAn international team of astronomers has found a potentially habitable planet less than two dozen light years from Earth. Today CAD Tutorials blog CATIA V5 - How to Generate G codes in NC modeThe most important part about using CATIA V5 NC is to generate G-codes. In this demo we show how to create a sample program. There are certain steps required to to create the program successfully. You must specify the directory where the files go in the Tools>Options. [more...] Yesterday It is Alive in the Lab Blog Autodesk Labs: bigger and bolder than FY12The Autodesk fiscal year runs from February 1 through January 31. So we just completed FY12 and are now in FY13. Looking at the number of new, updated, and technology previews as documented on What's New, I see that FY12 [more...] Yesterday IMAGINiT Manufacturing Solutions Blog Mechanical Desktop to Inventor: Don't Get Lost in the TranslationThe Problem: Quite a few years have gone by since Autodesk introduced Inventor, which is now a global leader in 3D design, replacing Mechanical Desktop (MDT). Mechanical Desktop has been sent into retirement and is no longer supported by Autodesk and subscription licensing [more...] Yesterday The Building Coder blog Level Generator ADN Plugin of the MonthAnother ADN Plugin of the Month for Revit has been published on Autodesk Labs: the February ADN Plugin of the Month is the Level Generator by my Chinese colleague Joe Ye. It generates multiple adjacent levels with one single command. [more...] Yesterday CAD vs BIM blog Dear AEC, Get #BIM or a new career. Sincerely, Present RealityAndy Partridge is an awesome writer and really encapsulates brilliance in his works... Do get into him & XTC if you like thinking!!! Now (below the video) onto the letter... Dear AEC, Recently I tweeted you to get #BIM or a new career and I would like to follow [more...] Jan 26, 12 Ansys News KDC Solar Nugen begins operations on rooftop solar facility in USKDC Solar Nugen has begun commercial operation of a PV roof-mounted solar system at the White Rose warehouse in New Jersey, US. |
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