Scenario: Working on a large design project for a swimming pool complex and tasked with defining the locker rooms layout. Working with a large AEC firm with requirements t Image via Wikipedia o use AutoCAD drawings to complete the project. AEC firm agrees to supply base drawings showing walls, doors, plumbing, etc. for the design (this arcticle demonstrates how important …
Microsoft Announces The End of One of Computings Major Technological Advancements
Image by Luigi Rosa via Flickr The announcement by Microsoft that they are no longer going to be shipping or supporting Visual Basic, and then Autodesk‘s subsequent similar announcement, marks a very important end to the era labeled the time of the personal programmer, one of those technological advancements so amazing it shifted technology into a brand new direction. VB …
Displaying Your progeCAD Model in Google Earth
One of the really cool new features of progeCAD 2009 Professional is posting your model to Google Earth so you can see what it will look like in it’s natural surroundings… Below is a short walk through showing you how you can use the Google Earth import and export to get your model into Google Earth precisely at it’s future …
iCADsales.com Releases ProgeCAM, Linking Design with CNC Machining
Image via Wikipedia iCADsales.com (www.icadsales.com), in co-operation with progeSOFT North America, announces the release of ProgeCAM, CNC Machining Software linked to progeCAD Professional providing seamless “Art to Part” manufacturing life cycle. iCADsales.com is offering a free evaluation download of ProgeCAM 2009 running in combination with ProgeCAD 2009 Professional, available without registration on our website. progeCAM, includes both progeCAD Professional, the …
progeCAD 2009 Professional Tips
I found this available on the progeSOFT trial forum and thought I would repost it here so that readers might utilize some of these little known tips of productivity. If you have other tips please feel free to post them in the comments section of this post… Start————————————-After updating to the 2009 I was so surprised to find that some …
The HAL Result, or How One Company Killed Innovation
Recently Autodesk announced their new release of AutoCAD, version 2010. Many of you will immediately relate 2010 to a movie of the same name, and naturally your mind will touch on the prequel to 2010, the movie entitled 2001: A Space Odyssey. One cannot think of 2001 without remembering HAL, the semi transient computer running the show on the space …
progeTABLE,The First Module of the progeOFFICE Series, Has Been Released
iCADsales.com announced today the release of the first of a series of modules in the progeOFFICE line, tailored to link progeCAD 2009 Professional with Microsoft Office applications progeTABLE uses Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to create tables within progeCAD, allowing a designer to import a spreadsheet into progeCAD as a table within the drawing. The data within the table can then be …
1/10th the Price? or “David and Goliath”
Hey, we admit it, we are a part of something very different compared to the rest of the corporate software developers in the world. Autodesk probably spends more on coffee for their various employees that we spend an entire year for marketing. BUT, the word is out. People are telling other people, and someday, critical mass and the kind of …