We have posted 3 videos by Kelcey Lemon to YouTube to provide an overview of the new Subscription Advantage Packs for AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010. If you are an Autodesk Subscription customer make sure to go download yours today from the Subscription Center.
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AutoCAD Architecture 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack – Renovation Extension 2010
Get a preview of future product features now as an Autodesk Subscription customer. Available NOW on the Subscription Center Improve the speed of renovation project design and production with the Renovation Extension 2010. New renovation-specific tools help you create renovation…
AutoCAD MEP 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack – Duct Transition Extension 2010
Get a preview of future product features now as an Autodesk Subscription customer. Available NOW on the Subscription Center Connect complex duct layouts with the Duct Transition Extension 2010. New duct transition tools help you connect parallel duct segments of…
AutoCAD Architecture Designed Buildings
The Autodesk Marketing Team is actively looking for compelling images of AutoCAD Architecture-designed multiuse buildings for use in upcoming marketing visualization images.
Free progeCAD Upgrade Until 2010 Includes USB, Network and AutoCAD LT Upgrades
First, we are happy to confirm that progeCAD 2010 is now deep in development. This coming release of our favorite low-cost “AutoCAD clone” will include several important new features, such as ability to read and write the new AutoCAD 2010 DWG file format. progeCAD 2010 Professional will also offer unprescedented speed and stability, based on the new IntelliCAD 6.6 toolkit.
Second, as of Friday, 06 November 2009 AEST, all new and upgrade purchases of progeCAD 2009 Professional from CADDIT will be elligable for a free upgrade to an equivalent 2010 version license upon release. This “buy 2009 today – get 2010 tomorrow” offer applies to all new and upgrade progeCAD Professional, progeCAD USB, progeCAD Network NLM licenses purchased on or after this date. It also applies to “cross-over”
upgrades from AutoCAD LT, IntelliCAD, TurboCAD, ArchiCAD, Chief Architect and several other design software programs after this date. As last year, large scale corporate users will benefit the most from this offer. Users’ progeCAD 2009 license(s) will be deactivated once that user has successfuly upgraded to 2010.A follow up announcement will be made here when progeCAD 2010 is actually released.
Third, we are in final preparation of a new release for progeCAD Smart!
progeCAD Smart 2009 will be available strictly for non-business use only. proegCAD Smart! is not open-source software. Design professionals, engineers, contractors, businesses and enterprises should use progeCAD Professional in 30-day trial mode for evaluation. Company employees should not use progeCAD Smart! for this purpose. More information will be available upon announcing the product release.progeCAD development and support has advanced considerably. CADDIT enjoys direct access to product developers, internal bug tracking and extensive manufacturer support. We encourage users to give the latest 2009 release a free try. Australia and New Zealand users may
download the full version progeCAD trial HERE, or request a free progeCAD CD HERE.compatible
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Press Release: The Open Design Alliance (ODA) today announced the availability of a new enhancement request system
Phoenix, AZ, October 26, 2009 – The Open Design Alliance (ODA) today announced the availability of a new enhancement request system designed to improve communication between ODA Sustaining and Founding Members and ODA development.
As a member-driven organization, the ODA has consistently delivered technology that stems directly from the focus set by members through long-term development relationships and close communication. The newly implemented enhancement request system further strengthens the role of members within the organization by enabling them to enter and vote on new requests for ODA platform components, enhancements, and features. Members will also be able to collaborate on requests with each other and with ODA development.
ODA Chief Technical Officer Neil Peterson stated, “The ODA has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. As the size of our organization and the sophistication of our platform increases, we need to adopt infrastructure tools which are better suited to handling the increased communication load. The new enhancement request system will play a key role in future growth by providing an organized framework for expressing and prioritizing new ideas and development goals. It’s a strong addition to the membership infrastructure of the ODA.”
More information about the ODA and its members is available at http://www.opendesign.com/.
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AutoCAD Architecture 2010 and AutoCAD MEP 2010 Product Update 1
The Update 1 for AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP 2010 were released today.
AutoCAD Compatibility Improves with progeCAD 9.0.28.10 Product Release from CADDIT.net
Sydney, Australia – CADDIT announced today the Australia / New Zealand international release of progeCAD Professional 2009 9.0.28. This important upgrade offers several requested performance, reliability and DWG-compatibility enhancements. Over two months in development and testing has been invested in the release of 9.0.28. This upgrade is free to all progeCAD Professional 2009 stand-alone, network, USB and office license customers.
progeCAD is CAD design software offering many features found in Autodesk AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, at much lower cost. This includes AutoCAD DWG™ / DXF™ / DWF™ 2009 editing, 3D Google Earth Export, Spell Checker, Quick Dimension, Polar Tracking, eSnap (like oSnap™), PDF import / export, ACIS 3D solid modeling, raster to vector conversion and advanced hatching using a similar interface to AutoCAD. progeCAD has become very popular in Australia as one of the most reliable alternatives to AutoCAD for small to medium business – especially in the Australian architectural design and large mining industries.
CADDIT offers IT professionals optional direct access to local installation and technical support for their design CAD software from their Liverpool-Sydney offices in New South Wales. The latest free update for current progeCAD users was over two months in development, and includes many enhancements requested locally in Australia, including:
• Improved SAVE performances
• Fixed Text Style combo
• Fixed Layout print settings recording
• TRIM options selection fixed
• Fixed CopyClip and PasteClip between progeCAD<->AutoCAD
• Fixed block insertion point set in the BLOCK dialog
• Disabled BLOCK command during REFEDIT mode
• Fixed UNDO option in TRIM and EXTEND command, used after FENCE and CROSSING option
progeCAD 2009 users who have direct internet access and the progeSOFT autoupdate feature enabled should be notified of the upgrade automatically. progeCAD users with limited or no direct internet access to their progeCAD workstation can download the new version and install it directly over their existing 2009 installation.
Previous version IntelliCAD and AutoCAD LT users are also encouraged to try the latest progeCAD 9.0.28 release free for 30 days in full-function trial mode. German progeCAD users can visit progeCAD Deutschland for information about the latest version.
International users may download progeCAD directly from CADDIT.net and many other sites.
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Outsourcing Disasters Put Consumers at Risk
Outsourcing manufacturing and even development to overseas companies became a fact of life with international agreements and the economic globalization which quickly followed. Foreign export subsidies abroad and lowered import tariffs at home offer a powerful case for simply sourcing what we want from somewhere else. The benefit to consumers are cheaper display prices. However, the products themselves can have hidden costs which total much higher than the display price. Here are just three costs not on the price tag:
Safety: September 2009 saw the latest chapter in a long string of expensive and time-consuming product recalls of items manufactured in China. Just the other day one of our staff found themselves face to face with this reality in their own home, having narrowly avoided possible injury when the powder metal blade retainer for their new, one-day-old imported lawn mower cracked a large chunk off after just ten minutes of operation. This safety-critical part was stamped from powder metal and probably given insufficient oven time to bake – which means there are hundreds – thousands somewhere just like it. Back at the store our colleague watched as the entire model line seemed to have a similar flaw and started immediately getting pulled from the floor. How much could that have cost someone?
Economic: Training overseas personnel has opened the door to a flood of skillful black-market copycats, counterfeiters, patent and trademark pirates who apply inside knowledge to cleverly reproduce almost any product illegally, which becomes expensive and difficult to police. Local jobs and skills are lost overseas forever. Eventually, the local economy finds itself borrowing from China to buy from China.
Human Rights: Those employed overseas in the manufacture of low cost goods for export often discover their original expectations wrong, working in appalling conditions, with no way back out. Middlemen, business brokers and investors receive the entire net profit from the supply-demand relationship.
The real differential in the final consumer’s decision is actually not cost, but timing. When presented a choice between “pay now or pay later”, MBA 101 states that credit-based consumerism such as what is encouraged in the USA will pick “pay later” – even if it means paying more. Darwinism 101 responds that if cutting out fierce business competition could therefore be timed early, it technically justifies almost any other consequence in quality, ethics or community interest. Darwin knows that consumers will still have opportunity to pay their fare share of it all, just a bit “later”.
Uncontrolled serial product outsourcing can be a disaster. Not surprisingly, there is growing understanding about the importance of highly selective outsourcing, supplier evaluation, certification and inspection by qualified local staff and agency, while maintaining tight product control, domestic R&D, and a healthy ratio of credible domestic suppliers and know-how at home.
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New Autodesk Content Search Beta
Looking for a solution to a problem or information concerning an Autodesk product?Autodesk is testing a new search engine which aggregates from several sources such as support documents, forum posting as well as Autodesk blogs and YouTube.