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Como, 28 April 2008, progeSOFT, a global leader in low cost CAD solutions, today released a new update of its main software. (PRWeb Apr 30, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb897784.htm

U.S. CAD will present Autodesk workshops and seminars, and exhibit sustainable design solutions as part of its Silver Sponsorship involvement in the Ecobuild America and AEC-ST conference, May 19-22 in at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim Calif. U.S. CAD will exhibit next to global design solutions leader Autodesk at booth No. 309. (PRWeb Apr 29, 2008) Read the full... continues

progeCAD Smart! the free CAD forum has fallen victim to hackers. (PRWeb Apr 19, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb869304.htm

An island off the coast of Saudi Arabia:

Microsoft Office have opened a “Labs” with previews, a blog and more. Microsoft Office Labs We're a group of designers and developers that collect ideas from all over Microsoft (but mostly from Office and other products related to 'getting stuff...

They now have a Kiwi Cap Originally uploaded by RobiNZ I've been off-line while cycling around Viet Nam but I'm now back in New Zealand and catching up with things*. Will be sharing more of my holiday but, by far,...

Working with AutoCAD 2009 the other day, it suddenly complained of a lack of memory. The Vista computer upon which I am running it has 2GB RAM and 92GB free disk space. Earlier, I found a memory cleaner that frees...

Autodesk's HDI is short for Hierarchical Object-Oriented Picture System Extended Immediate-mode Drawing Interface Device Interface. It turns out that HDI is composed of two other acronyms: -- HDI is short for HEIDI Device Interface. -- HEIDI is short for HOOPS...

Foxit’s remarkable little free PDF reader was always good for documents – better than Adobe’s I reckon – but sometimes choked on drawing PDFs with dense hatch patterns. This was seen as an endless draw/re-draw refresh loop as it struggled...

Well we've been plugging away all week working on the content for Autodesk University 2008. With over 600 courses and over 1400 submittals we want to make sure we have the best possible slate of classes. Joseph Wurcher, June Nakatani...

Engaget has pictures of a 30-monitor display, 3 tall by 10 wide. Ideal for civil engineers who design roads -- which tends to involve very long and narrow drawings. Each screen can be up to 32" in size. Link: 9XMedia...

I have recently finished up the revision to the AutoCAD book that I had originally co-authored back in 2006 which was based on AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007 at that time. The revision to the book is entitled AutoCAD...

What happens when you take "1 Part CAD Site" and mix it (not shake it) with "1 Part AutoCAD RSS Feed Aggregator" or for those that know AutoLISP (+ "CAD Site" "AutoCAD RSS Feed Aggregator")? I'm not sure, but if...

I do LinkedIn but I don’t Facebook. However, thanks to this post on LinkedIn Vs Facebook I found out LinkedIn have added a personal RSS feed to the startup page. That’s cool! Log into LinkedIn and click on the RSS...

It is typical for a CAD vendor to announce that their software has replaced that of a competitor's. It is atypical to name the competitor. Dassault didn't mind doing that during their most recent conference call with finanacial analysts: Here...

AutoCAD 2009 is shipping with a new in-the-box item referred to as "Cue Cards". Cue Cards provide information about new features that ship with the product and they come in two different versions: hardcopy and electronic. The hardcopy version of...

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone. I am currently on sabbatical until June but will continue to blog, of course. I have some great blog posts to finish now that I have more time to relax and concentrate as well as...

Whether you have recently upgraded to AutoCAD 2009 or are on the process of deciding to upgrade or not, you might find the following links of interest: New Features Workshop (NFW) - The New Features Workshop is one of the...

During PTC's quarterly conference call with financial analaysts, Jay Vleeschhouwer of Merrill Lynch asks: Are you seeing any customer piloting activity at all of Dassault’s V6 architecture? PTC's chief product officer James E. Heppelmann responds: I think most customers I've...

See Jay Leno's solar and wind system for his car garage in the embedded video below or at www.jaylenosgarage.com. I got the rare opportunity to visit with Jay and his team a couple weeks ago in his secret car collection...

Another view of Canada's north, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean:

Buzz Kross writes: I heard you were wondering if we intended to continue the link to competitive tools. Absolutely. We plan no changes. Moldflow is a key aspect of our CIM strategy. We intend to keep the solution open and...

Well...week two of the tour is over and I'm back home with the little white fluffy dog (hoorah!). I have really enjoyed the audience members who've come up to me and introduced yourselves - or asked me to sign their...

It's been visible only through the Google cache until now, and it's not supposed to be getting launched until June, but Al Dean and Martyn Day are quietly building their X3 Media Web site for the last several months. Here's...

From last week's conference calls with financial analysts: PTC Despite the potential impact of a slowing economy in 2008, we are confident in our ability to achieve our fiscal 2008 revenue target. Why? Approximately half of our expected 13% revenue...

Now in AutoCAD 2009 you have the ability to pin items most used such as standard or detail DWG files. This can make the Recent Documents menu much more helpful. I cant tell you how many times I have spent...

We're doing something new this year—we would like you to help us select the best 500-plus sessions. We have uploaded all of the sessions (that were submitted by the deadline) to AU 2008 Session site and we need your input....

Quote of the holiday from a Hanoi shopkeeper: “It’s Nine Dollar US, if you pay in Dong (local currency) I do cheaper ‘cause US Dollar not so strong” (About 16,000 Dong = US$1)

This week the Experience Tour hits Philadelphia and Dallas. Last week was very exciting as we had some fantastic sessions on all of the new 2009 products in Miami and Washington D.C. I really enjoyed sharing the new features in...

Updated version of the Scale List Cleanup Utility April 26th 2008 This Scale List Cleanup Utility repairs a problem with files that contain excess scales. This utility will soon be posted live to the Autodesk support site http://support.autodesk.com as it...

A HUGE Thank You to John, Duff, and Dan for giving us Autodesk and AutoCAD.

The updated and very very popular Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD has been updated for AutoCAD 2009 so that it now runs on three AutoCAD versions. There have also been a few updates by the developer Thomas Inzinga: Support for...

The Autodesk University User Conference and Exhibition (AU) is Autodesk's premier annual event. AU is all about empowering professionals with training, resources, and contacts to help them realize their best ideas. Attendees are seeking Autodesk and partner solutions that will...

The Autodesk Labs project Content Search has made its transition from lab project to a graduate as of April 4th 2008 and more exciting details and updates will follow shortly. What is Autodesk Seek (http://seek.autodesk.com/)? Autodesk Seek delivers the design...

These 13 video tutorials for AutoCAD 2009 features were recorded by my coworker Heidi Hewett. AutoCAD 2009 Demo Introduction AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 2- Quick Access Toolbar AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 3 - Menu Browser AutoCAD 2009 Demo...

The Autodesk Experience Tour is about to begin and tomorrow I'm flying off to Miami for round one! If you haven't already signed up for one of the stops be sure to do so! There is sure to be plenty...

As you might already be aware, there is a new release of AutoCAD on the loose. There are many new and exciting features that AutoCAD 2009 has to offer, and the first major change that you will notice with the...

COFES continued to be a great conference along with an award for Autodesk CEO Carl Bass from the CAD Society for Leadership. Carl wasn't able to pick up his award so Autodesk Executive VP Buzz Kross did the honors as...

Hugh MacLeod’s Microsoft Blue Monster is featured in a Businessweek article on “doodling” as a tool for business. There is more to business than Word and PowerPoint! gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": "doodling for profits" There's...

Welcome to the future of computer aided model building. This list is for anyone that ever thought of blending model building and cad/vector. Vector or cad is