Swedish Library Furniture Design Knowledge Increased

The furniture drafting specialists who went to Sweden are back. They now have firsthand knowledge of libraries in Sweden and Denmark. They visited around a dozen libraries and studied the furniture layouts in detail, took photographs and took photographs of the counters, shelves, stacks, book display racks and book return kiosks.

An interesting observation was that Swedish library design style is different from  Danish library design style (the exact difference in detail will be the subject of another post). But the important thing is that The Magnum Group can now design library layouts in either style. Our customers can outsource library layout design to us by giving us just summary specifications.

More power to them!

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AutoCAD Drafting with AutoCAD 2007: Some New Features

By Garnet Malowney, CAD Designer, The Magnum Group:

AutoCAD 2007 includes several intresting features of significant utility in 3d drafting. Here is a description of some of them which have proven particularly useful to our AutoCAD drafting work at The Magnum Group.

Loft… This command is useful in creating many designs which was not possible in the earlier versions of AutoCAD for example a sample view has been shown below. It can even be shelled and subtracted.

Sweep…  This command acts the same way like “Extrude Path” but has its own features, like you can twist and extrude the object, and you should have a end point.

Slice… There is a new feature in the slice command you can now even slice using surfaces

Rendering…  the rendering also has more features than any of the previous versions; you can actually get to see what the object looks like even before you render the object. This feature is something new to AutoCAD. The rendering can be compared to that of 3Ds Max, but only to a certain extent.

Views…Now you can change your views, there are 2 types of projections namely Parallel and Prospective Projection.

Walkthrough…This feature was never available in the previous versions of AutoCAD; it provides the designer an added advantage. With this feature the designer can not only move inside the drawings but view it at and from any angle. Walkthrough has many interesting features which would benefit the designer.

Flatshot…This command creates a flattened image of your 3d image, this command is similar to that of Solprof, Solview used in other versions of Cad but it has more options.

Presspull…With this command you can extrude or intrude and it will be active only when in the options, “when command is active” is selected.

Convtosolid and Convtosurface… with these commands you can convert closed objects with thickness to either solid or surface.

Polysolid…with the help of this command you can convert circles, arcs, rectangles etc into 3d drawings

Thickensurface…with the help of this command you can thicken the surface of the object; it acts just like the “Extrude” command which is used for 3D drawings…

Revolve…with the help of this command you can revolve a 2d object circle or rectangle to any given angle into a 3d object, as compared to the previous releases this has more options.

U.C.S… The U.C.S command has been improved by making it easier for you to handle.

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CAD Drafting Services from India Follow Sub Prime Debacle

Did you know that when the housing industry in the US is in a slump, there is a huge backlash felt by architectural drawing providers in India?

We experienced this firsthand two months ago during the sub prime crisis. Several architect customers of ours in the midwest US were down for the count, and therefore there was a large decrease in the demand for AutoCAD drawings of plans, elevations and sections.

Interestingly enough, as soon as the Feds cut the interest rates by five points, we experienced a huge resurgence of construction-related drafting work.

Fortunately we’ve hedged our revenues by also having very large customers in Europe, for whom we do engineering drafting, and it is very rare that Europe and the US experience equally bad (or good) economic conditions simultaneously!

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