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		<title>AutoCAD Drawings from Raster Images: A Power Tip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by R. Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group
When you do a paper to CAD conversion, the input document is often a scanned paper print (also known as a “raster image file”). It is usually in TIFF, JPEG, BMP or PDF format.
You will usually attach the raster image file to a new AutoCAD drawing and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/126.htm</link>
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		<title>Previewing or Plotting Certain Layouts Makes AutoCAD HANG!!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/125.htm</link>
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		<title>CAD Services: All Shapes and Sizes</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/124.htm</link>
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		<title>Ever Needed CAD Drafters?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/123.htm</link>
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		<title>2-D CAD Drafting Service from The Magnum Group</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/122.htm</link>
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		<title>CAD Outsourcing Holiday Time in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We like it when you have holidays. Why? Because then our workload eases off a bit, and we have time to breathe, eat and sleep (which are usually luxuries for us).
If any customers are working at our office, we take them on trips to nearby holiday areas. We don&#8217;t stay late, we work without stress, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/121.htm</link>
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		<title>Why It Sucks to Outsource CAD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director, The Magnum GroupIt’s better to have a holistic picture of what’s going on in the CAD outsourcing area before you jump into it. Here are some in-your-face factoids:
Because it’s a pain outsourcing CAD to a strange foreigner…
You’re going to get into an intimate relationship with a person from another culture. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/119.htm</link>
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		<title>CAD Drafting Price Estimate Tool</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/115.htm</link>
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		<title>Outsourcing CAD to India? Here&#8217;s the Ultimate Vendor Test</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://themagnumgroup.net/Blog/109.htm</link>
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		<title>The Magnum Group Expands Staff Strength</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that we are adding nearly seven staff members. They are all CAD drafters, several of them with years of experience. Some have this experience in 3D drafting and some in 2D.
This augmentation of our &#8220;forces&#8221; has been necessitated by the demands of our existing workload and our need to absorb [...]]]></description>
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