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		<title>Previewing or Plotting Certain Layouts Makes AutoCAD HANG!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By R. Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group
We experienced another strange problem in AutoCAD this week.
THE PROBLEM
We received a base plan file from our client with several layouts and xref files to attach.
After finishing work on the drawing we tried to plot the file and found that&#8230;
AutoCAD hangs during previewing or plotting  certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAD Services: All Shapes and Sizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are myriad CAD services worldwide and no two are the same. To make sense of this diverse landscape, here is a classification system.
Small, InexpensiveThis is the one or two-man show which is how many CAD services start off. The advantage of such a CAD drafting firm is that prices will be very low. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever Needed CAD Drafters?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hesitating to add CAD drafters to handle peak loads? 
You should be..&#160; because you will have to keep paying them during non-peak periods. That can put a huge drain on&#160; your cash flow&#8230; apart from paying salaries, you wil also have to pay workmen&#8217;s compensation insurance, health insurance, retirement benefits, social security, rent for office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2-D CAD Drafting Service from The Magnum Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We provide our 2-D drafting service to several engineering and architectural clients. 
Some of our architectural clients ask us to design house plans. We create &#8220;permit sets&#8221;, which is a set of 12 drawings: first floor plans, second floor plans, four external elevations, two sections, foundation plan, general notes, details and cover sheet. Typically the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAD Drafting Price Estimate Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Want an estimate of what it will cost you to get your CAD drawings done? No more looking up tables and multiplying&#8230; we now have an online tool that does it in an instant.
It&#8217;s on our Prices Page, and it&#8217;s purpose is to help you get CAD drafting estimates FAST&#8230; and by &#8220;fast&#8221; we mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing CAD to India? Here&#8217;s the Ultimate Vendor Test</title>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/109.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yes, OK, you&#8217;ve located a good CAD drafting vendor in India, you&#8217;ve sent trial assignments, you&#8217;ve got a good response. But how do you&#160; know that you&#8217;re not just dealing with a very small shop, because this would mean no service when someone there is on vacation for whatever reason.
The solution: take four or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Design Maritime HVAC Systems for Another Monster Cruise Liner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our expertise in HVAC drafting has led to another landmark assignment. The Magnum Group has been awarded the contract for laying out 10 of the 50 HVAC machinery rooms in a new mega cruise liner ordered by Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL).
&#8220;Laying Out&#8221; encompasses positioning machines in the rooms, sizing and positioning air ducts, water pipes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microstation: New Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director, The Magnum Group
We&#8217;ve just uploaded an excellent article on MicroStation, the renowned CAD platform from Bentley Systems, Inc.

If creating 3D objects is part of your business process, please read it: it&#8217;s a distillation of our thousands of hours&#8217; experience in the area, and contains many valuable observations that can only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a Missing AutoCAD Menu Bar to Load</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by R Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group&#160;I just surmounted a strange problem in AutoCAD 2007: my toolbars did not load during my AutoCAD session but everything else worked fine.
When I typed the “menuload” command, the “Load\Unload Customizations” dialogue box opened; I browsed to the “Select Customization File” dialog box and selected the “acad.cui” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product Visualization: Rolex Cell Phone (The Magnum Group Impression)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucky Balaraman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered what a Rolex cellphone would look like? Well, we did, and this visualization was the outcome!
Our product visulalization team, consisting of graphic artists and engineering drafting experts, built the basic 3D model in AutoCAD after considering aspects like usability, functionality and compatibility with Rolex&#8217;s signature design theme.
This is an example of The Magnum [...]]]></description>
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