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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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New in AutoCAD 2021: Xref Compare
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This is the second article in our series about new features in AutoCAD 2021, and is about how the platform streamlines tracking changes in DWG xref files. As in the case of the compare function in the Drawing History palette described in our earlier article, when you open a host drawing, AutoCAD 2021 immediately tells…

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Top Three Reasons to Outsource Your CAD Services
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In a down economy many businesses are looking to streamline and eliminate waste across all areas. The explosion of the global market over the last decade has opened new opportunities for businesses to outsource all over the world. Although offshoring and outsourcing is often reflected negatively, experts agree the practice is helping businesses compete in…

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3D Printing of Body Parts
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3D printing has a good future and a bad future. On the bad side, there are 3D printers which can print working guns (read our post on that); on the good side, there are 3D printers which have started printing body parts. This post is about the good side (and it will be updated as…

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Outsourcing: At Last Someone Has the Nerve to Talk About China
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As anyone connected with international business knows, there is a hue and cry in the US about IT jobs being outsourced to India. President Obama has doubled the visa fees for IT specialists coming to the US to work (for companies with less than 50% US citizen/permanent resident employees) and there is the H-1B and…

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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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More Publicity For Our Structural Drawing Service
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Whoa! Now we have a press release on our structural drawing service. Incredibly, it has been downloaded more than 15,000 times in one day at PRWeb!

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