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AutoCAD Drafting News: Autodesk Fined

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 !!!

CAD Services: How We Organize a Project

I thought it might be worthwhile to provide a pictorial example of the team that we deploy on a typical medium-sized CAD project. The diagram illustrates the structure of the team that is currently working on one of our active projects. Please spend a few moments looking at it, after which I will explain what…

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Project Management Online: Our New Kickass Feature for Customers

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 Drafting : What A Nike Cell Phone Might Look Like

Our engineering drafting expertise in drafting artists’ impressions of concept products continues to evolve. Here is an illustration of what we think a Nike cell phone would look like. It is completely shockproof, mainly due to the blue rubber bumper pads on the corners and the grey ones on the sides. There are also air…

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CAD Services: BIM Expert Bob Weygant is Our Interview Guest

Listen in on my interview with one of the world’s top experts on BIM (short for both “Building Information Management” and “Building Information Modelling”), Bob Weygant. Bob has authored books on the subject and will be coming out with a new one in April 2011. He has created over FIFTEEN THOUSAND models using BIM for…

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Outsourcing: Where India, China and Vietnam Are Going

BusinessWeek published an article dated 25th September, 2009 about the world’s outsourcing market being worth $373 billion. The new Canadian research firm, XMB Global, predicts India and China as the leading outsourcing countries with a growing market of 14.4% this year, with India generating revenues of US$48 billion and China at US$28 billion. Vincent Altez,…

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Indian Outsourcing Companies: Eyeing the Peak

Indian technology outsourcing companies are no longer content to remain in the background but want to be in the lead. Top Indian tech companies were long satisfied with doing software maintenance and database upgrading work for US and European firms like Citigroup Inc. and BT Group PLC (who were looking for cost effective solutions). But…

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