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Really Good Blog On Sheet Metal Design

We’ve been keeping this subject under wraps: we produce cutting and bending drawings for sheet metal fabricators. Our drawings are created in AutoCAD and coded so that they can be fed directly into a computerized cutting-routing machine. We have a considerable amount of domain knowledge in the subject

We’ve recently come across a sheet metal “expert blog” which anyone in the field should look at regularly: “Sheet Metal Guy Blog“. It posts much valuable information on bending allowances, k factors and other sweet topics of the trade. Be sure to bookmark it if sheet metal is often on your mind!

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Pearl Harbor for Indian IT firms: The Chinese Are Coming

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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Previewing or Plotting Certain Layouts Makes AutoCAD HANG!!

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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CAD Services: You Have Your Hopefuls List, Now What?

This is the second in a series of posts detailing how to zero in on a good CAD services provider to whom you can outsource your engineering or architectural drawings with confidence. In our last post, we listed several forums that can offer up service provider names worth checking out. Now comes the task of…

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Microstation: New Article

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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Technology Outsourcing Chooses India

A recent article in the 20th August print edition of the Economic Times, India, spoke about aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, the world’s third largest aircraft manufacturer with its headquarters at Montreal, Canada, looking at outsourcing to India. Bombardier is looking to lower its operational costs by ratcheting its outsourcing of design projects up. Bombardier has requested…

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Outsourcing CAD to India? Here’s the Ultimate Vendor Test

Yes, OK, you’ve located a good CAD drafting vendor in India, you’ve sent trial assignments, you’ve got a good response. But how do you know that you’re not just dealing with a very small shop, because this would mean no service when someone there is on vacation for whatever reason. The solution: take four or…

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