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Guilloche and parametric math curves in AutoCAD
During my Friday's visit of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, I have seen an interesting, mechanically simple machine drawing complex curves - guilloches: A similar machine at work: As we have received a lot reactions and feedbacks on the 3DPlot utility we released in Februa…

Winners of the CAXMIX contest - balloon flight
Readers of the CAXMIX magazine had a chance to participate in a competition sponsored by CAD Studio. The first prize was a hot-air balloon flight. The participants had to give right answers to a couple of technical questions and guess the number of newly registered users on the CADforum.cz portal.…

It's an acquisition season for Autodesk
This week, Autodesk has announced two acquisitions. The first one is an important milestone and it will probably change the CAD and manufacturing industry quite substantially. HSMWorks , a well known CAM tool for Solidworks, is now "Autodesk HSMWorks" and still remains an important CAM…