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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 Services: Finding the Good Ones
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Let’s face it, there are thousands of CAD service providers. How do you find one that’s really good? We now have proven ways to garner opinions using incomparable technology. I’m talking about the Internet. To answer the earlier question, all one has to do is go to good forums related to architecture and either: See…

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Microstation: New Article
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We’ve just uploaded an excellent article on MicroStation, the renowned CAD platform from Bentley Systems, Inc. If creating 3D objects is part of your business process, please read it: it’s a distillation of our thousands of hours’ experience in the area, and contains many valuable observations that can only be obtained through similar usage. Find…

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I Inaugurate CompSci Association at DMI College of Engineering
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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 me to address part of India’s IT future. Here are several…

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3D Visualizations: How Can You Tell Them from Photographs?
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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 an expert visualizer (it often…

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CAD Drafting Price Estimate Tool
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Want an estimate of what it will cost you to get your CAD drawings done? No more looking up tables and multiplying… we now have an online tool that does it in an instant. It’s on our Prices Page, and it’s purpose is to help you get CAD drafting estimates FAST… and by “fast” we…

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3D Printing Electronics Along with Plastic
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STOP PRESS: Now microelectronics can be 3D printed along with the usual plastic. As you may be aware, microelectronics are made by a type of printing process, more specifically by etching areas defined by a photograph created on the surface to be etched. Now microelectronics are being created by 3D printing, by using microelectronics in…

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