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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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3D Printing | CAD

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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CAD Services: Manipulate 3D Virtual Objects with Your Hands
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Many of us are familiar with designing 3D objects using specialized software such as AutoCAD. As the designer painstakingly creates the object, it is necessary for him to manipulate the object in three dimensions. He has to do this to have access to all points on the object, which is required for say, adding a…

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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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Pearl Harbor for Indian IT firms: The Chinese Are Coming
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It is common knowledge that the Chinese are outstandingly successful in anything they set their minds to. Indian IT firms take note: the Chinese have now decided to become leaders in providing IT services. An informative report in PCWorld makes one realize that Chinese IT firms are perfectly mimicking Indian IT powerhouses today in order…

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Drafting Services: 3D Visualization Tools Soon Online
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CAD Services and the Shrinking Economy
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The global financial crisis is on, and is playing at an economy near you. CAD services providers have not been spared because of a domino effect… when demand goes down there is less development of residential and commercial spaces, which means there is less need for architectural drawings and so less need for CAD services….

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