Our CAD Services Article on Google Knol

by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director, The Magnum Group

We all know what Wikipedia is, right? Well, Google has come out its its own Wikipedia-type site, called Google Knol.

All you have to do is log in to your Google account and upload your content. Your content should, of course, be an informative article and can contain images or video.

We have uploaded an expert article on CAD services. The article pretty much explains from start to finish how to find a good CAD services provider. The content is based on our experience of several years in being a CAD services provider and in dealing with myriad customers on several continents.

It’s an engaging and informative read, and we hope you like it!

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We Have a Radio Show Now!

by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director, The Magnum Group

We are proud and excited to announce that we have started having a regular, CAD services related radio show. On it we plan to interview CAD-related people: engineers, architects, CAD software manufacturers and sellers, to name a few.

The show is hosted by BlogTalkRadio.com. The first episode about our HVAC CAD services clearly describes the inputs we get and the outputs we deliver for our marine HVAC projects. This is information hitherto not available in the public domain: catch it and stay ahead of the crowd!

Have a nice day,

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AutoCAD Drawings from Raster Images: A Power Tip

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 start tracing over it. You may sometimes get frustrated if the raster image file is too large: panning, for instance, takes an extended period of time because of the large size of the raster image file.

So what’s a solution to make it easy to work in AutoCAD when raster image files are attached?

The best way is to convert the raster image file to PNG format and then insert it into AutoCAD!

Photoshop will help you to convert the raster image files from any format to PNG. If you don’t have Photoshop there are some free programs that do the job. You can easily find one by Googling.

You will definitely have a better AutoCAD working experience with PNG files since they are smaller and have transparent backgrounds.

Hope this helps!

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