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NEW in BoltGen 1.71: BoltGen 1.71 now creates inside-thread-cutters and nuts, as well as the bolt selections. Added English Head-type HEX heads for small sizes. Parts have names in the properties window for easy identification. BoltGenAN for type AN Aircraft bolts is included. Still Free!Download BoltGen, and More From McVan Aerospace [more...]

3DVision Technologies SolidWorks expert cpatrick provides technical tips and tricks in using SolidWorks 3D Design products.3DVision Technologies is offering great deals on SolidWorks Classroom Training. Check out our newly launched SolidWorks Training Bundles and take advantage of the savings today! 1. Purchase 2 Essentials training classes at regular price and get a Space Navigator Mouse Free (a $100 value). $2,590.00 (Shipping not included) 2. Purchase an Advanced training bundle at [...]The post It’s Summer and Time to Save! appeared first on Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana SolidWorks 3DDesign-3DVision Technologies Blog [more...]

I use the monitor part of Copy/Monitor to create a relationship between my existing levels and levels in a linked model. There is no need to use Copy because I've already got a couple levels to work with. In this scenario I'm using Revit MEP and linking an architectural model. I'd like my level name to match the architects. If you use Monitor first and then decide to make your level names match the linked levels you'll get a message like this.Revit isn't really evaluating or comparing the names. If it was it would realize that I just changed to match the monitored level. Instead it's just reacting to the fact that the name (my level's name in my file) is now different.Moral of the story is, if you intend to use the same names it is best to change them before you start using monitoring. If you don't then you'll need to stop monitoring, change the name and then restore the monitoring [more...]

Design engineers generate dramatically lighter concepts with minimal stress using solidThinking Inspire 9 [more...]

Slipping a chunky headset on your noggin and diving into a digital reality was a wonderfully inviting development in years gone past. Virtual Reality (VR) was a technology that went the way of badly marketed viewing devices and gaming platforms that eventually turned into large mechanized boxes at malls and theme parks–boxes you and your [more...]

The first clue that Lectra is taking a new approach to meeting the needs of its customers came from the display on its stand at last week's Texprocess technology trade show [more...]

Moldex3D, one of my favorite groups, is returning to the Solid Edge concert halls again this year. For those of you into the smooth flowing tunes that helped create the mold for this type of music, you need to come see them at the event [more...]

MixExperience, the social network for Italian Rhino users, has recently launched its new website: http://www.mxp3d.com/Instructions to migrate your old account (in Italian [more...]

At this webinar you’ll get an in depth look into both RhinoCAM and Rhino 5. MecSoft’s Support Manager Uday Honnalagere will be showcasing the advanced capabilities of RhinoCAM 2012 and it’s seamless integration into Rhino 5. As a bonus, we’re happy to have Scott Davidson of McNeel & Assoc. joining us to demonstrate the power ofRhino. This is going to be a great learning experience for beginners and advanced users alike. This is a FREE webinar, so feel free to spread the word. Here are the details:Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013Time: 8:00AM (Pacific Daylight Time)Location: Any internet enabled computer!Register Now [more...]

You can read the press release or just check our quick summary of what’s new here: solidThinking Inspire changes the way product designers and structural engineers approach design. “Inspire demonstrates solidThinking’s innovation and profound understanding of how companies develop products,” says Dr. Keith Meintjes, Practice Manager for Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc. “It is a tool that precisely addresses the needs of product-responsible design engineers. The straightforward user interface is easy to learn and use and helps designers quickly… Continue reading » [more...]

zSpace, Inc., a technology provider that is transforming the future of human-computer interaction, announced today that software partner Mechdyne, provider of visual information technologies, has released [more...]

TROY, Mich., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --  solidThinking today announced the latest version of its solidThinking Inspire software, which allows design engineers, product designers and architects to create [more...]

Efforts to reduce costs, cut lead times and improve quality are all driving investments in supply chain software, according to exhibitors at last week's Texprocess trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany. And not surprisingly, vendors such as Gerber Technology and Human Solutions are focusing their developments on tools to meet these needs as seamlessly as possible [more...]

This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days. This week we curated a list of some of Thom Yorke’s current favorites for when he’s not busy making his own music. We’ll start with some [more...]

Philippe Starck once famously said that there should be no cars on the road—-only motorcycles. While some soccer moms may disagree, his theory is valid: less pollution, more space, and dare I say it—more badassery. With all the recent developments of augmented reality-based windshields seen in concept cars in the past few years, it was [more...]

American private equity firm Apollo Global Management has submitted a proposal to buy Rio Tinto’s iron-ore operations in Canada [more...]

If you don't have the luxury of NOT using older versions of Revit, and you have installed the new 2014 version only to start having weird ribbon issues the older versions....Check out the fix hereSeems like the ribbon get one step behind user activity. Minimizing and restoring the ribbon will catch it back up, but it will fall behind on the next ribbon pick.Replace the file indicated in the fix and all is well again [more...]

The Autodesk Simulation team is interested in hearing your thoughts on what is important in a structural analysis tool so that we can make enhancements and updates that are important to the work that you do. We invite you to [more...]

@import "http://www.graphisoft.com/css/gsallpage.css"; The BIMobject® App Now Released for ArchiCAD MALMÖ, SWEDEN, June 18, 2013 -- BIMobject® announced today that the cloud integration App for GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) architectural software developer, has been launched. The App is completely free of charge for all users of ArchiCAD worldwide, giving the ArchiCAD user a toolset to find, source, update and check BIM objects supplied through the http://bimobject.com/ cloud completely integrated in their software. The integration is completely un [more...]

@import "http://www.graphisoft.com/css/gsallpage.css"; BIMobject® The BIMobject® App allows you, as an ArchiCAD user to browse and download manufacturer specific content from the BIMobject.com cloud directly into any ArchiCAD 15, 16 or 17 project. The BIMobject® App is completely free of charge for all users of ArchiCAD worldwide, giving the ArchiCAD user a toolset to find, source, update and check BIM objects supplied through the http://info.bimobject.com/ cloud completely integrated in their software. The App has functions to quickly browse the BIMobject® cloud database online and f [more...]

When creating an automated work instruction or technical illustration what do you do when your source data does not include all of the required parts? Here I show a basic technique using 3DVIA Composer to generate a missing part. Ti [more...]

Social gaming network Playphone will be integrating DoubleDown Casino into its game offerings [more...]

The second winner of a Wacom Intuos5 pen tablet in phase two of our Vectorworks: From Sketch to BIM project is Joseph P. Grant, AIA, associate partner at Davis Brody Bond Architects and Planners. About the Winner Grant got his start in the industry at a young age as a carpenter’s apprentice, and he has now [more...]

The greatest bike race in the world is held June 19 to July 21 this year. Celebrating its 100th year, the Tour de France sends riders through more than 2100 miles of countryside, hills, and mountains each summer. Forget to turn in your entry form? No worries. PTC customer Pro-Form has figured out a way [… [more...]

Today Graebert released a free plug-in called OnlineMaps for the free version of DraftSight, the 2D AutoCAD clone that they created for Dassault Systemes. The plug-in sits inside the DraftSight user interface as a new menu item. Clicking the menu item pops up a window where you can search for an address. I searched for [more...]

Architecture Challenge 2013 - Robotic Infiltrations06.28 - 07.07 @ Die Angewandte (Vienna)The “ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGE” program is an international design workshop series organized by Andrei Gheorghe and Bence Pap in collaboration with international experts and institutions. It is intended for architecture students interested in exploring integrated digital design and fabrication while simultaneously designing a full-scale built project within the teaching environment of the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.Architectural Design at the Angewandte is taught as an integrated, multidisciplinary process. Following this tradition, the design process will be enriched with robotic design strategies combining Grasshopper plugins such as the HAL and KARAMBA platforms. Specialists from the Institute of Architecture and invited guest experts Georg Grasser, Kadri Tamre and Thibault Schwartz from Technical University Innsbruck will co-tutor the workshop. The handling of virtual simulation methods and the engineering of full-scale structures using robotic manufacturing will be a primary focus of the workshop. Three ABB industrial robots will be used for on-site fabrication. This workshop will result not only in built structures and environments, but will also inform and prepare interested students for the architecture study program at the Angewandte.Complete info and registration [more...]

With the world’s economies still in a cautious mode, aerospace and defense manufacturers view investment in product lifecycle management strategies as a way to innovate, differentiate, and drive efficiency into product development initiatives [more...]

PTC today announced that MBDA, Europe’s leading missile systems manufacturer, has selected PTC’s product lifecycle management technology solutions to help th [more...]

Source/Link: http://revitclinic.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/06/update-release-3-for-the-revit-2013-products.html Update 3 is now available for Revit 2013 products. For Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit Structure, and Autodesk Revit MEP, you can find the update in the Data & Downloads > Updates section of each product page. The update for Autodesk Revit 2013 can be found in the Design & Creation Suites Support > Data & Downloads > Updates & Service Packs section. Here are the direct links:Revit 2013 Update Release 3Revit Architecture 2013 Update Release 3Revit Structure 2013 Update Release 3Revit MEP 2013 Update Release 3 Installation ReadMe files and Update Enhancement PDFs are available at each of these locations as well.Improvements made in Update 3 build (20130531_2115):Autodesk® Revit® Platform 2013 Enhancements? Improves stability when using Hardware Acceleration, Graphics Mode. ? Improves stability when opening projects which utilize Extensible Storage.? Improves visual fidelity between canvas and printed output. ? Improves visual fidelity of hidden lines, MEP pipe centerlines and haloed gaps when not using Hardware Acceleration, Graphics Mode. ? Improves Structural family data integrity during upgrade of project.? Improves data integrity when canceling Save As operation.? Improves interaction between Revit Server 2013 and Riverbed compression.? Enables users to browse Revit Server Networks when a bound workstation cannot contact the Domain Controller. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Join the buildingSMART alliance - National BIM Standards Provider• Are you getting your CM-BIM credential? Click here for classes and information• Click here to Subscribe to the blog via daily email updates for the BIM news you don't want to miss.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [more...]

I am writing a paper on the use and performance of inverted roofs in the UK, since the late 70's, early 1980‘s, if you have any information, project details, drawings, building knowledge of inverted roof, and don't forget, they were also known as green roofs, upside down roofs, protected membrane roofs, Dow roofs, Styrofoam roofs, [...]The post Architectural Technologist – A request for inverted roof project information appeared first on Konstrukshon CPD Weblog [more...]

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Digital ABS by Stratasys is the 3D printing material of choice when you need toughness with smooth surfaces and fine details. Digital ABS Material features: Simulation of ABS engineering plastics performance Superior finish with smooth, glossy surfaces Excellent impact resistance [more...]

I've blogged about the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, (DMIC) a huge US$ 90 billion project 1,483 km in length linking Delhi and Mumbai. The objective of the DMIC is to create a base for economic development by providing access to [more...]

PITTSBURGH, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) can now increase the access to and scalability of complex government simulation code [more...]

Update 3 is now available for Revit 2013 products. For Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit Structure, and Autodesk Revit MEP, you can find the update in the Data & Downloads > Updates section of each product page. The update for [more...]

Last week I received the following question from Adam Schilling: I have enjoyed your posts on .net programming for datalinks. I have searched high and low and haven’t been able to find answers or any support to help me with [more...]

RISOMA-SWUG Rhode Island / Southeastern Massachusetts SolidWorks User Group DATE Thursday, June 20th, 2013 TIME 5:30 - 9:15 LOCATION Sensata Technologies 529 Pleasant St Attleboro, MA... Do you want to know how to create sections in 3D? How about forgotten sketch techniques? Visit my Blog and learn these and more valuable SolidWorks Tech Tips [more...]

Rethink Robotics has built a low cost research robot with an open source SDK in the hopes of getting roboticists to get more creative [more...]

I ran across this article on Twitter. Although it is written in a more "rant" style of blog post there are many interesting points and it really got me thinking. Personally, I have always hated the title "intern". It automatically places you at the bottom of the totem pole in almost any situation. Additionally, it does not give credit to the amount of work an intern completes or the value the intern adds to the project. This got me thinking about what BIM (in my case, Revit) has done to the role of the intern.I began my "intern career" using AutoCAD and ended it using Revit. In most cases the responsibilities of 2D documentation have not changed from the AutoCAD Intern to the BIM Intern..."BIMtern"??... So what has BIM done for the intern? The CAD intern was typically focusing on the creation of single drawings using their knowledge or "red-lines". The CAD intern maye be tasked with a single toilet room detail plan, elevations, reflected ceiling plan, etc... The BIMtern may be tasked with the same toilet room plans, elevations, and RCP's but the process of completing that task requires an understanding of how the task will effect other colleagues working on the project (both in 2-D and in 3-D) mainly because of the existence of worksharing and use of a single file (as opposed to a completely separate 2D drawing file). The BIMterm will also have to communicate and coordinate with the MEP engineers if toilets have to be shifted, sinks have to be relocated, or lights have to move. You may be thinking, "technically, that has to be done with an AutoCAD process too". This is true. But does it? With a 2D workflow, unless you are x-referencing plumbing plans, the project can move on without a word being said between that intern and the MEP engineers. With a true BIM workflow the architectural plans and elevations will show piping and lights in the wrong location until that coordination can happen. Conversely, the MEP model will have some "open systems"... or detached pipes in this case.Ultimately, the BIMtern will carry a more intimate role with the entire building during the design process, have an enhanced involvement in coordination, and play a major role in the success of the contract documents.... So he/she deserves a more fitting title.... What do you think??Posted by: Jeffrey A. Pinheiro, LEED AP at The Revit Kid.com [more...]

eQuorum Corporation is pleased to announce the selection of ImageSiteTM Manufacturing by Eriez. ImageSite’s tight integration with Autodesk Vault provides enterprise-wide document management, distribution and collaboration capabilities for manufacturing, sales, support and other Eriez departments for both internal use and external vendor collaboration. (PRWeb June 18, 2013) Read the full story [more...]

BATH, England, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BOMcheck is an industry collaboration led by Philips, Siemens, GE, Osram, Sony Mobile, Schneider Electric, Toshiba, Agfa, Texas Instruments and TE Connectivity [more...]

Dassault Systèmes , the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management [more...]

iTunes® has changed the way media lovers store, organize, and maintain their multimedia files. Comparing iTunes® to SolidWorks ePDM for file management, we can draw many similarities between the two management applications. During this complimentary, one-hour webinar, discover why storing [more...]

Source/Link: http://artlantissimo.blogspot.com/2013/06/good-news-for-revit-2014-users.html The export plug-in from Revit 2014 to Artlantis 4.1 is now available for downloading! Create your model in Revit, export and edit it in Artlantis. Return to Revit, make changes to the geometry, export a new Artlantis file and recover your previous work done in Artlantis. The Artlantis export plug-in offers a direct transfer from Revit into Artlantis, without the need for intermediate file formats. During the export, special entities are automatically exploded. The Artlantis .atl file format is cross platform; it can be read on both Macintosh and Windows. Let’s see in detail what Artlantis can recover from your Revit model:• The geometry• All cameras for parallel views• All cameras for perspective views• The shading color and transparency of materials with their names• The geographical position of the sun active for the parallel view that is used for the export.Learn how to use Revit and Artlantis together here! Click here to download the Revit 2014 plug-in [more...]

Adobe has released its long-awaited and highly controversial Creative Cloud suite of applications for both longtime professional devotees and the newcomers it hopes to attract. Having historically operated on an upgrade schedule of every 12 to 16 months, Adobe is now releasing new subscription-only versions of its flagship Photoshop image-editing program—called Photoshop CC (for Creative Cloud [more...]

Solution Redefines How to Manage and Execute the Development Phase of New Program [more...]

Novedge: Tell us a bit about who you are and what you do. Brian Ringley: I was educated as an architect but currently work as what might best be described as a design technologist. I’m the Technology Coordinator at City [more...]

I received an email from blog reader Steve Roberts with a suggested tip topic on how to reduce the size and clean up DWG drawing files using four AutoCAD commands. I wrote a quick blog post in the topic [more...]

ANAHEIM, CA (PTC Live Global 2013), June 12, 2013 - Don Flugrad, cofounder of iSEEK, was manning the booth at the PTC annual user meeting, but it iSEEK's CEO, Abir Qamhiyah, who commanding all the attention. Cascades of red hair [more...]

A few weeks ago I posted here about Gamification Of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and how it could bring about a new era in 3D printing. One reader pointed out a related infographic that shows past successes in other industries. Who knows, maybe someday soon this graphic will need a section dedicated to additive manufacturing.Infographic Credit OnlineBusinessDegree.or [more...]

The Revit 2014 export plug-in for Artlantis 4.1 is available for downloading [more...]

Chief Engineer for the Red Bull Stratos capsule, Bill Dodson, relied on engineering analysis and simulation software to deal with the complexities of getting Felix Baumgartner 24 miles above the Earth [more...]

Enlarge. At AU 2008 I happened to be nearby when our team was hoisting the 3D printed motorcycle for display. Autodesk had given me a FlipCam to take some video, so I did. See my my YouTube video. The video [more...]

ISC 2013 -- NVIDIA today announced that it has collaborated with a research team at Stanford University to create the world's largest artificial neural network built to model how the human brain learns. The network is 6.5 times bigger than the previous record-setting network developed by Google in 2012 [more...]

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} This tip from the dork side bears a little more explanation when it is standalone. Working in a large facility inside the city limits, our construction is, by necessity, always butting up against another building. Obviously, once that happens, renovations often spill over from one building to another. So, also by necessity, our floor plates, and thereby our background plans, cover all of the buildings in a single file. I created a composite set for each discipline (ease of use for mechanics, engineers and future renovations for each trade): Mechanical Ductwork Mechanical Piping Domestic Water Electrical Power Electrical Lighting Electrical - Auxiliary Systems (nurse call, fire alarms, etc) Fire Protection Piping While I work on the Engineering staff, and we are not responsible for the architectural components, I have recently started two additional sets just for reference: Architectural - Reflected Ceiling Plans Architectural - Room Usage For each of these sets, I copy over the content from each renovation project's record documents. All I started with was a set of floor plans, so I had to create each of the above-mentioned sets from scratch. Obviously, I created one, and used it as a template for the remainder (using the below tip, the Sheet Set Manager or SSM, and recently, Fields for the titleblocks). Now for the tip: After I set up separate layouts for each building on a given level, I want to import the layouts into the drawing for another level. Open up your next drawing and just right-click on a layout tab and select From Template…, change the Files of Type: selection to .dwg and select the drawing you just set up your layouts in. You will be able to select one or more of the layouts available in the drawing you are using as your template. You can also import layouts into other drawings by using Design Center, although this will not bring along their Page Setups. Go to the Output tab of the ribbon and click the Page Setup Manager to import from there, if needed [more...]

In the past ten days, I migrated The Building Coder samples, ADN training labs, MEP and Structural sample material from Revit 2013 to 2014. In all of these migrations, I lamented the processor architecture mismatch warning MSB3270 saying There was [more...]

Daunting realities abound in the world of product development. Global competition is fierce across all industry sectors. High-speed innovation is now an industry-agnostic demand. Time to market is becoming crucial to maintaining market share, and customers are increasingly hard to please, demanding products that do more and are more customized. On top of all this, [… [more...]

Did you know the No. 1 cause of unintentional injury-related death in children under five is drowning and that the whole incident can go down without a sound in as little as 20 seconds? It’s a scenario all too familiar to emergency room physician Dr. Graham Snyder, who decided to take action with his new [more...]

Nick Skadberg just graduated from Colorado State University. He is now working at Siemens Infrastructure & Cities as an energy engineer. I interviewed him at the EcoCAR2 Year 2 Competition a few weeks ago. Below is our video and blog interview. When did you know you wanted to be an engineer? “I knew that I [more...]

Is there a way to make a spring stretch and compress using Instant 3D? Asked By Ron S. There are quite a few ways to work with springs in SolidWorks. In this SolidWorks video tutorial, we’ll look at a quick … Continue reading → [more...]

Click here to take a look at our newest case study on how our friends at Skanska are utilizing Bluebeam Revu and Bluebeam Studio to efficiently organize and collaborate on a massive, $2 Billion hospital construction project – their largest project to date! Want to learn more? Join us across the pond at the Bluebeam [… [more...]

If you do something that prompts Revit to pop up this kind of warning (this one is about Spaces)...You'll be tempted to answer Yes with the expectation that Revit will show your spaces. Well you'd be wrong if your view is assigned to a view template. As in this example if you place a space (using Revit MEP features) you'll get this warning next.Aggressive view templates will deny the override that the warning dialog implies. It's like asking your mother if you can do something and she says yes but then your father says no. It makes sense but the warning message can be confusing, at least initially. You still have to edit the View Template so it will show whatever category you really want to see [more...]

This is the last part in a three part series focusing on the SolidWorks deform feature. In this part the surface push deform type will be shown. This feature takes a target body and deforms it using a tool body [more...]

In upFront.eZine #780 this week, we have for you: 1. What Marketing Gives, Engineering Takes 2. All About the New Russian-developed 3D Kernel - Part 2 3. Out of the Inbox, and a few other other regular columns. You can [more...]

LOS ANGELES — Amid glitz and glamour, the stars of daytime television came out to honor their own at the 40th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles [more...]

Senior Principal Research Scientist, Tovi Grossman, let me know that we are pleased to announce that an update to the Project Chronicle Website has just been released. The June 2013 update contains an exciting new feature: New! Live Embedded Chronicles [more...]

As its name suggests, 123D Make helps you "make" your design in the physical world by converting it to a form where the resulting material can be folded, stacked, or interlocked to reveal the design. I got a great email [more...]

The Hardware Timeline of CADMany of you might not know it, but mechanical CAD can trace its roots to the 1950s. In 1957 Dr. Patrick Hanratty, sometimes referred to as the “Father of CAD”, developed the first numerical control manufacturing system. He later went on to license technology to United Computing and Intergraph (both now part of Siemens PLM [more...]