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Christmas CAD utilities given out by XANADU
This year for the seventh time, just like last year and the years before - during Christmas, XANADU (CAD Studio) gives out a couple of free useful CAD tools for all CAD users. As a part of this tradition, this year's Christmas-tree utilities are the following: TURBO is a tool which switches…

XANADU GIS solution for Energie AG Bohemia
The water distribution and infrastructure group Energie AG Bohemia has choosen a CAD Studio (former: XANADU) solution based on Autodesk Topobase as its new centralized GIS system. Energie AG Bohemia provides water supplies for almost one million people in the southern part of the Czech Republic.…

2010 Subscription Advantage Packs and new AutoCAD commands
Autodesk has released "Subscription Advantage Packs" (SAP) for most products of the 2010 family. The SAPs extend product functionality in a range from a couple of small enhancements (like in AutoCAD) to a big new feature pack - almost a new release - like in the case of Revit. Useful new …

Proceedings of the conference CADforum 2009
The 6th annual conference CADforum 2009 was held in Horni Cerekev, Czech Rep. in September. In parallel, a smaller specialized conference GISforum 2009 was held in the same location. These conferences, organized by XANADU since the year 2003, attract yearly more than 200 experts from the Czech…

Integrating Google Earth maps with AutoCAD
We understand that the standard functionality offered in AutoCAD and its "industry" versions not always provides all functions to complete a given task in the fastest way. That's where add-on applications come into play, and thanks to the open API available in all Autodesk products, m…

Send your tweets straight from AutoCAD
Yes, if you are a power-tweeter you can now use your favorite web tool Twitter.com also directly in AutoCAD. The free twitter.vlx AutoLISP utility adds the TWITTER command to AutoCAD. With the TWITTER command (or its LISP function) you can publish messages (tweets) to your Twitter account. You ca…

Translate texts in AutoCAD drawings
With more and more companies working globally, many designers need to translate their drawings into other languages. Most of the typical texts in a CAD drawing are just simple words or short sentences. But some drawings - especially in the US - contain larger portions of texts (legends, description…

BUDWEISER.DWG checks the DWG compatibility
Another tool by XANADU (CAD Studio) with the same name as this blog is the BUDWEISER.DWG drawing. It exists already since 2001 (for older AutoCAD versions), so this is not something brand new, but what is new is the 2010-version of this free benchmark drawing (Budweiser2010.dwg) - released today.…

New AutoCAD freeware and CAD add-ons
One of our most popular web resources is the CAD freeware page at www.cadstudio.cz/freeware . We publish there our AutoCAD add-ons, free CAD utilities and other useful stuff for AutoCAD, Inventor and Revit users. There are some interesting new pieces in this collection of AutoCAD LISP add-ons: …

Czech Telefonica O2 relies on GIS by XANADU
The implementation and support of a large GIS system running at the leading integrated telecommunications operator in the Czech market, the Telefonica O2, is carried out by CAD Studio Inc. (former: XANADU Inc). Our GIS solution is based on Autodesk MapGuide and Autodesk Topobase. Telefonica O2 Cz…

List of AutoCAD commands and variables
With the localized versions of AutoCAD 2010 being released in these days, we have updated our list and dictionary of AutoCAD command names and variables. This database now contains all AutoCAD commands and variables, including those introduced in AutoCAD 2010. AutoCAD command names in different loc…

New Autodesk Design Review 2010 for DWF, DWFx and PDF files
As a part of the release of the new 2010-family of products, Autodesk has published the new version of its free viewing and markup tool for CAD files - Autodesk Design Review 2010 . Like all other members of the 2010 family, Design Review 2010 sports the new ribbon user interface and like all oth…

DWF drawings now also in Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera or Safari
Even when you are using alternative internet browsers, you can now also utilize DWF objects for interactive viewing of CAD drawings inside web pages. This is a new option to the current Freewheel web rendering service. The newly released Firefox Add-on for Autodesk Design Review (see Autodesk L…

Todella kattava kokoelma
... you don't understand? This is one of the web links to our free CAD Blocks Library on the CADforum.cz web. In Finnish it means (according to Google Translate) something like " a truly comprehensive collection ". And this is also a typical assessment of CADforum.cz in hundreds of o…

Hidden, free drawing software by Autodesk
Do you draw your schemes and designs in the secret free "CAD" application by Autodesk? This was inspired by the Autodesk's secret free design application blog post on the RobiNZ CAD Blog . The review and markup tools in Autodesk Design Review are quite powerful. Powerful enough to be…

AutoCAD for Linux?
One of the most frequented questions on CAD discussion web sites is the theme of AutoCAD version for Linux. Well, to put it short - there is no such AutoCAD and I doubt Autodesk will make one in a foreseeable future. What is interesting is the disproportion of the frequency of Linux citations on …