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AutoCAD Drafting News: Autodesk Fined

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Our favorite CAD software manufacturer has suffered a hit. Because of a patent infringement suit filed against them by Z4 Technlogies regarding the product activation software AutoCAD employs, U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis of Texas ordered Autodesk to pay an $18 million fine. This of course will not wreck Autodesk, which has revenues in excess of $1 billion, but still, it’s a tough pill for Autodesk to swallow!

If it’s any consolation, mighty Microsoft was fined too: $140 million !!!

Read more about this event here.

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CAD | Solar

Solar Power Bankrupting Aussie Power Plants?
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A recent report in The Australian claims that coal-based power plants are forced to idle because of solar power. Australian government bonus schemes promise rooftop solar power producers 44c/ kWh for electricity they pour into the grid, whereas baseload generators are allowed only 4c/ kWh. In addition, the fact that sizeable solar power is being…

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Previewing or Plotting Certain Layouts Makes AutoCAD HANG!!
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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… AutoCAD hangs during…

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The Indian Outsourcing Industry May Be Down, but It’s Not Out
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There is interesting news about the current dynamics of the Indian outsourcing industry in The Economic Times newspaper, published in India, in its 7 August 2009 issue. The report studies the performance of the Indian IT and BPO industries. It says that in financial year 2010, these industries are expected to grow in the high…

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Project Management Online: Our New Kickass Feature for Customers
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TMG now has an exciting new feature that will dramatically enhances the quality of our customers’ interaction with us. We have incorporated an online project management portal. Customers can go to this portal and view the state of each one of their projects. They can also see all earlier versions of the project, leave messages…

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CAD | Engineering Drafting

Reduce Image Size, not Image Quality
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by R Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group Have you ever thought about using super-intelligent image resizing software to minimize image filesize? Are you wasting a lot of time trying to resize images without causing their quality to drop like a stone? Ok, then you should know about “Seam Carving”. What’s “Seam carving”? No…

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Thinking of Outsourcing to China? Beware of This Pitfall
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So you’ve decided that India is getting too expensive as an outsourcing destination and are tempted by all the big-name stories to set up in China. But did you know that there are some significant financial disadvantages involved? The most important disadvantage is the high federal tax that has to be paid for each employee,…

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