CADDManager on August 25th, 2008

Tools – Talent – Technology – Training These four T’s can be used to define your efforts in you job. Combine these four and you get a balanced approach to CAD. Let’s look at the Tools Tools relates to the ones that you select. Which ones will you use?  What will you use them for? […]

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CADDManager on August 18th, 2008

Tools – Talent – Technology – Training These four T’s can be used to define your efforts in you job. Combine these four and you get a balanced approach to CAD. Tools relates to the ones that you select. Which ones will you use? What will you use them for? Talent relates to who is […]

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CADDManager on August 11th, 2008

Exchanging data between programs is a fairly common thing nowdays.  Everyone is sending files from  one firm to another, from one project to another and from one software platform to another.  Most of the time it works fairly well.  But usually that attitude is “good enough”.  Or you hear the term “quick & dirty”. What […]

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CADDManager on July 16th, 2008

Having trouble with your AutoCAD version?  Do you think it might be a “bug”? Take a look at the full lists of “Updates & Services Packs” for AutoCAD. These are what Autodesk calls “Maintenance Releases”.  They use to be called Patches and before that Bug Fixes.  Now they have a more generic name. There are […]

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CADDManager on July 15th, 2008

The LAB is always a place to check for new items…  like this one. A new tool that went live on Autodesk Labs on July 10. The MEP Analysis Extension is a set of 25 utilities that MEP engineers can use to better understand how a building system will perform before it’s built. With these […]

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CADDManager on July 14th, 2008

“At a joint press conference, Autodesk, Inc. and Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced an agreement to expand interoperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) software. Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries, including Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write the companies’ respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments […]

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CADDManager on June 22nd, 2008

Have you heard of Sketchbook Pro? It is the newest Tablet PC tool from Autodesk. You can sketch, annotate, and present your visual ideas anywhere on a Tablet PC or Wacom Tablet. Here is more info from the Autodesk site. And a free trial offer

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CADDManager on May 15th, 2008

We have looked at how the end users might drive the development of the software, but what about the owners of our designs? Do those who inherit the creations we design actually have any input into the software tools that we use? My Opinion – Yes they do. Sometimes they actually drive the whole market. […]

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CADDManager on May 14th, 2008

Users have always wanted a voice into the process of creating and refining new features that appear in future releases of software. This desire plays itself out in many ways, but does it actually impact the developers and what they focus their efforts on? The Users like to think so. Having been associated with AUGI […]

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