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The Business of 3D Modeling: Interview with Dot San (Shapeways)

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Business of 3D Modeling: Interview with Dot San

As we see awareness of the potential for 3D printing spread and the Shapeways community grow, we are also starting to see mor...

Technology Product Highlights from AIA 2011 Expo (AECbytes)

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Technology Product Highlights from AIA 2011 Expo

Source: AECbytes
by Lachmi Khemlani

In last week’s AECbytes newsletter on the AIA 2011 convention, I captured the key points of the keynote address by Thomas Fri...

AIA 2011 Convention: Thomas Friedman’s Keynote and Energy-Related Technologies (AECbytes)

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

AIA 2011 Convention: Thomas Friedman’s Keynote and Energy-Related Technologies

Source: AECbytes
by Lachmi Khemlani

This year's annual AIA Convention was held last week in New Orleans, the city that will always be associated with Hurricane K...

Lantek plays a key role in new investment at Blagg & Johnson (Lantek)

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Lantek plays a key role in new investment at Blagg & Johnson

Source: Lantek
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Blagg & Johnson Ltd has been located in Newark since 1921, producing cold rolled and pressed metal sections and fabricated as...

What Makes a Good GIS Leader? (CADALYST Magazine)

Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

What Makes a Good GIS Leader?

Source: CADALYST Magazine
by Cyrena Respini-Irwin

Being well grounded in geospatial technology is just the beginning, says URISA's Greg Babinski....

Cadalyst’s Ron LaFon Dies at Age 63 (CADALYST Magazine)

Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Cadalyst’s Ron LaFon Dies at Age 63

Source: CADALYST Magazine
by Nancy Spurling Johnson

Contributing editor reviewed hundreds of hardware and software products in his 17 years with the publication...

On-Site iPads Change the Game (CADALYST Magazine)

Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

On-Site iPads Change the Game

Source: CADALYST Magazine
by Melanie Perry

Tech Trends: Tablet computers offer countless benefits for Clayco's mobile workforce, but have yet to replace laptops....

The New Paradigm: Leveraging the “Information Cloud” with the Dynamic GIS (ERDAS)

Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The New Paradigm: Leveraging the “Information Cloud” with the Dynamic GIS

Source: ERDAS
by

Last year, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck just miles from Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. More recently, massive e...

Improving supply chain collaboration (Aerospace Manufacturing and Design)

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Improving supply chain collaboration

Source: Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
by Mark Kelly, Robert Morris

The model based enterprise offers great promise for collaboration in the extended supply chain. The vision of taking a 3D sol...

Separating the FACT from Fiction: Common Misconceptions about 3D Scanning (Laser Design)

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Separating the FACT from Fiction: Common Misconceptions about 3D Scanning

Source: Laser Design
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Fact or fiction? Reverse engineering is the main application of 3D scanning—This is FICTION! The fact is that 3D scanning has...

10 Visio Tips for the new Electra User. (radica software)

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

10 Visio Tips for the new Electra User.

Source: radica software
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We have been Visio users for a long time and it's easy for us to forget that despite being easy to use, sometimes new Visio u...

Engineers Week: Scott Wertel Interview Part 1 (Siemens)

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Engineers Week: Scott Wertel Interview Part 1

Source: Siemens
by Dora Smith

To all current and prospective engineers out there, happy Engineers Week! We’d like to start this week with an interview with...

InfoWorks RS Reveals the Impact of Flood Mitigation Works on the Damansara River in Malaysia (Innovyze)

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

InfoWorks RS Reveals the Impact of Flood Mitigation Works on the Damansara River in Malaysia

Source: Innovyze
by

InfoWorks RS is ideally suited to determining the impact of flood mitigation works on the development of flood maps – an issu...

Will BIM Make CAD Irrelevant? At Larson & Darby, the Answer Is 'No' (CADALYST Magazine)

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Will BIM Make CAD Irrelevant? At Larson & Darby, the Answer Is 'No'

Source: CADALYST Magazine
by Heather Livingston

A transition to Autodesk Revit doesn't need to be an all-or-nothing proposition. Day to day, AutoCAD still gets the job done ...

MapleSim Helps Improve Your Golf Game (Product Design & Development)

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

MapleSim Helps Improve Your Golf Game

Source: Product Design & Development
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In the world of golf, players are always looking for ways to improve their game, and equipment manufacturers are always looki...

Capturing and sharing knowledge based on tools supporting ISO 15 926 (Bentley Systems)

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Capturing and sharing knowledge based on tools supporting ISO 15 926

Source: Bentley Systems
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Rob Brawn, Director of Automation Systems Integration at CH2M Hill, talks to our editor about the experience with Bentley’s O...

Tubeway Army - Measurement Analysis (AICON)

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Tubeway Army - Measurement Analysis

Source: AICON
by Jutta Thiel

A Test report has documented the suita bility of the measuring system ‘TubeInspect’ for deployment in the aerospace industry...

What’s Broken In EDA… (Chip Design)

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

What’s Broken In EDA…

Source: Chip Design
by Ed Sperling

System-Level Design sat down to discuss what’s broken in EDA with Riko Radojcic, director of engineering for CDMA Technologie...

Interview with Tony Buser, creator of CloudSCAD (MakerBot Industries)

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Interview with Tony Buser, creator of CloudSCAD

Source: MakerBot Industries
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Tony Buser1 is the creator of CloudSCAD a web based version of OpenSCAD a popular 3D modeling program. You may know Tony from...

Part 3 - Manual Reset: SmartGeometry 2010 in Barcelona - 'Working Prototypes' (V1 Magazine)

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Part 3 - Manual Reset: SmartGeometry 2010 in Barcelona - 'Working Prototypes'

Source: V1 Magazine
by Donald Chong

In Part 3 - Manual Reset, SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona, Working Prototypes, architect Don Chong explains more of his observa...