AutoCAD
In September 2004 I blogged about a free MindManager for AEC Add-In. This allowed Autodesk Design Web Format (DWF) files to be integrated into MindManager Maps. It was a technology demonstration from Mindjet rather than a release candidate product but showed the potential of combining CAD and Map information to
AutoCAD
There are new versions of the freebie DWF Viewer and DWF Writer applications. Many of the new viewer features are aimed at exploring 3D DWF models although improvements to operation, integration, and 2D DWF viewing haven’t been forgotten. I’ll start with the Viewer and it’s new 3D
CAD and BIM General
This is an old article (July 2005) which, for some reason, just showed up in my “Most Viewed Articles” RSS feed from Architecture Magazine . It’s one of those silly “we’re better than you, no you’re not…” articles but still worth a read if you haven’t seen
AutoCAD
Autodesk have released a free viewer for AutoCAD DWG format files. Yes, you can finally the use the words “Autodesk”, “DWG”, “Viewer” and “Free” all in one sentence without the word “wish” Shaan, Between The Lines ~ AutoCAD Blog, has a post with all the details but the summary is: * It’
CAD and BIM General
Lachmi Khemlani on the recent SketchUp User Conference. 3D Base Camp: The First SketchUp User Conference ~ AECbytes Newsletter #23
CAD and BIM General
AUGI adds a Blog, actually a Blaugi, to it’s web presence. http://www.blaugi.com/ Via Between the Lines
CAD and BIM General
So, who’s going to “acquire” @Last Software – SketchUp – this week? Randall S. Newton chats with @Last Software’s co-founder Brad Schell… @Last Software and the Great Google Rumour
CAD and BIM General
I was surprised to get a trackback from Randall S. Newton to my post regarding Google Earth + SketchUp! For the past few days I’ve been reading his blog posts from the SketchUp Users Conference, 3D Base Camp 2005. Read them at AECnews.com indexed in the Event Blogging category.
Back in August after playing with Google Earth I wrote; “BIM + Global Database + Bandwidth = The Future, Today. A BIM project that extended to a site, or maybe suburban layout, can now be placed in context. Anyone with a broadband net connection can have the world on their desktop today. Your
CAD and BIM General
Autodesk “Evangelist” Lynn Allen is in New Zealand and blogging. She presented some Autodesk Inventor workshops last week but unfortunately I didn’t get to them. Inventor isn’t isn’t part of our CAD application mix but I have always had a personal interest in mechanical CAD software. My
CAD and BIM General
The Autodesk CAD/BIM products I use run on Windows. BIM requires integrating many information sources to create a graphic and data model of a project so it’s probably worth keeping an eye on anything that will change the way Windows manages data. The WinFS team have just launched
ActiveWords
It may appear that this “CAD Blog” has been taken over by an ActiveWords meme. The articles started as one short post. Over time the draft grew to be too large for a single post so I decided to break it up. I was going to release them over a
