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Autodesk Misses on the Top and Bottom Lines

Autodesk — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:16:58 GMT

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cadstudio — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:35:07 GMT

See Answer to the tip 9255: (ACAD,ADT,Civil,Map)

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BIM is Full of Holes

Steve Stafford — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:58:06 GMT

I took Seth Godin's recent blog post title and plugged BIM in instead. His post said "Life is Full of Holes". His perspective and observations are always welcome and happily sometimes (often) they plug right into my own life and work.In particular these lines resonated with me and what a friend once essentially asked his company during their deliberations regarding "To do Revit or not to do Revit"...Seth wrote: "I don't think the right question is, "is the path perfect?" It's probably, "Is this somewhere I'd like to go?"In the context of Revit the questions is, "Do we want to continue to work this way or that way". Do want to keep doing what we already do or see where and how we can benefit from using Revit instead?The Revit path isn't perfect, no "path" is... but do we need to keep waiting for it to be perfect, or even have that expectation? Keep in mind it never WILL be perfect...nothing is.Stop prevaricating about the bush, make a decision [more...]

Autodesk Agrees To Acquire Tinkercad

Autodesk — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:40:00 GMT

Autodesk Agrees To Acquire Tinkercad

Autodesk Purchases, Revives 3-D Design App Tinkercad

Autodesk — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:56:01 GMT

Great lamenting and gnashing of teeth ensued in March when Tinkercad announced it would be discontinuing its web-based 3-D modeling tool to focus its energies on Airstone , an interactive simulation environment.

Autodesk to Acquire Tinkercad, Easy-to-Use Web-Based 3D Design Software

Autodesk — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:37:58 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 18, 2013-- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tinkercad, an easy-to-use browser-based 3D design tool. The addition of Tinkercad to Autodesk will help broaden the popular Autodesk 123D family of apps and supports Autodesk�s vision to help anybody imagine, design and create anything. The acquisition will also revive the Tinkercad service and community, despite a previously announced shutdown by its founders and creators. �We are excited to have reached an agreement with Autodesk that will provide a solid home and bright future for Tinkercad,...

Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 Essentials

Steve Stafford — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:57:58 GMT

The release of this book introduces a new team of authors; Tobias Hathorn, Tessa Reist Hathorn and Ryan Duell. They have taken over the book from the team that first introduced it a couple years ago; James Vandezande, Eddy Krygiel, and Phil Read. You are probably already familiar with their other book, "Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 20##", the bigger brother to Essentials and the "Introducing" book that was discontinued after the 2012 release.The Wiley site for the book tells us:Beginners will get comfortable with Revit's core features and functions. Current users will have a valuable reference to refresh and hone their skills. And everyone can use this practical book to help prepare for the Revit Architecture certification exams. Essentials gets readers up and running on Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014, Autodesk's industry-leading building information modeling software:Explains core Revit tools, features, functionality, real-world workflows, and BIM conceptsCovers schematic design, modeling, families, views, creating drawing sets, and moreFeatures best practices, rendering and visualization, worksharing, documentation, and annotationProvides downloadable starting and ending files, so readers can compare their work to that of the pro's Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 Essentials is your perfect introduction to the powerful industry-leading BIM software.Useful Links:DescriptionTable of ContentsAuthor InformationDownloadsIf you are just getting started out with Revit this book may be just what you need. If you have an office of Revit users it might just be a great addition to your library too!Congratulations to the new team on the release of their book [more...]

Workstations

Chris Fugitt — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:54:00 GMT

It is that time of the year where Dell announces a their new industry leading workstation releases. This years release appears to be a focus on an offering for the low end of the market with the T1700 and the high end with the R7610 rack workstation. The T1700 is designed to be priced at about the cost of a desktop machine and provide a smaller footprint compared to Dell�s larger workstations. The workstation comes with support for three monitors, with optional support for four monitors. If you are still living with one monitor it might be time to make the jump to four monitors. this way you can have two instances of Civil 3D running with the palettes residing on the other two monitors. This way while you wait for Civil 3D to complete the tasks you can work in the other session. Eliminate some of the dead time Civil 3D creates by not using the full processing power of a workstation by artificially making the software use multiple processors at the same time. The workstation also comes with Dell Precision Performance Optimizer. While not supported for Civil 3D currently, it might in the future. This feature helps adjust the workstation for the program�s needs. this is definitely something Civil 3D could use as indicated in these tests by Stanford University. Additionally the workstation comes with the option to have Windows 7 installed. Autodesk seems to have been caught by surprise that Microsoft was releasing Windows 8 and doesn�t appear to have done any preplanning before the new OS was released.The Dell Precision R7610 Rack mounted workstation is the product I�m most intrigued by. I travel quite a bit and work where ever I am. It might be advantageous to be able to connect to a workstation at the office and use my workstation where ever I happen to be. The workstation may contain up to 256 GB of memory as well as multiple professional video cards. I wish my clients that I work with remotely had this capability. This way I could work on their network directly without having to transfer files back and forth. Plus this workstation can be used by multiple people. The connection when you are in the office is a small Dell Wyse P25 Zero Client leaving more monitors and plan space. Learn more at dell.com/precisio [more...]

PLM Workflows and Google Actionable Emails

Oleg Shilovitsky — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:19:59 GMT

Process management is an important elements of PLM implementations. PLM systems usually offer a variety of solutions for process management – from simple message routing to complex workflow management systems. However, regardless of process and workflow complexity, all customers are interested how to integrate processes and workflows with their email system. Email is fascinating topic, [… [more...]

Behind the Design: How Words and Sketches Become a Picture Book

Josh Mings — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:48:59 GMT

I bet, next to those dusty engineering and design textbooks on the shelf, you have a few picture books that have led to endless inspiration since you were a child. No? A comic book? Dilbert? *cringe* Nothing? Well, perhaps you had a favorite as a child, There Are Rocks in My Socks! or Where the [more...]

Inventory Reduction Sale

Matt Lombard — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:19:03 GMT

Spring cleaning.Gotta get rid of some books. Add $6 to each book for shipping, shipping only within US.SolidWorks 2013 – $20 each + shipping (8 available)SolidWorks 2011 Assemblies – $10 each + shipping (17 available)Read more on Inventory Reduction Sale… [more...]