http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog Blog Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:26:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director, TMG On August 12 2010 President Obama of the US signed into law a Border Security Bill that increases the fee for H1-B visas by US$ 2000 - 2500. This was clearly intended to shield unemployed US IT specialists against "imports" and is a ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/400/border-security-bill.htm You know the old saying: "People buy from other people whom they like and trust." Well, there is a corollary to that: "People buy from other people whose CAD models they love and trust." Users, whether they be engineers, architects or interior designers, need to know whether your ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/392/3d-models-for-download.htm Our latest guest on TMG’s Engineering and Architecture Video Show was the architect who designed the soon-to-be-opened, spectacular spa at the Trump Soho Hotel in New York City. Anthony J DiGuiseppe, member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a charter member of the Royal ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/391/spa-design.htm by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director DMI College of Engineering is a relatively new institution about 40 kilometers out of Chennai, India (where incidentally where TMG’s office is), and the Computer Science Association very kindly asked me to inaugurate their activities for the year. It was a complete privilege for ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/374/dmi-college-of_engineering.htm If you are a manufacturer of architectural products like furniture, bath fittings, sanitaryware, light fittings, modular kitchens or refrigerators, you might sell more products if you offered downloadable 3D models of your own products. Interior designers who want to use your product need to know if they fit in ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/367/parametric-models.htm Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/muhectorprasetyo/ / CC BY 2.0   Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daspaddy/ / CC BY 2.0 The Beluga Airbus is the world’s most volumetrically cavernous aircraft and is named after the similarly ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/332/airbus-beluga.htm This month TMG will give away one high-resolution 3D architectural rendering worth $400 or more to a selected US architectural firm. This is being done to popularize our high-quality rendering service, samples of which can be found at http://themagnumgroup.net/3D_Visualization.htm.   Image Specification The ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/325/3d-rendering-gift.htm by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director TMG has been a long-term user of Camtasia (we started with Camtasia 5 some years ago) and has been upgrading to all newer versions as and when Techsmith announces them. They announced Camtasia 7 last week and we immediately bought and downloaded it. We’ve ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/321/camtasia-7.htm For quite some time, computers have been producing 3D visualizations (also called “renderings”) that are similar to photographs. In many cases it is difficult to discern a visualization from a photograph. But the experienced eye knows what to look for. Here are the signs of a 3D visualization, compiled by ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/315/detect-3d-visualizations.htm Drafting services are subject to fluctuations in work inflow just like everyone else. The work inflow also fluctuates wildly, a situation that only some producers are subject to. TMG has its own way of dealing with this situation. For starters, we maintain a constant slack in our in-house ... http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/309/drafting-services-labor.htm