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The new "Project Galileo", a technology preview from Autodesk Labs is a tool for creating digital cities - models integrating mapping data, CAD, geospatial, building, utility networks and database data. It may resemble a combination of computer games Sims and Trainz Simulator , but on a …

The Autodesk user conference "Autodesk University 2010" held currently in Las Vegas brings a series of interesting news and new product announcements. You can also take part on this conference as a virtual attendee - see "AU virtual" for Autodesk subscription customers. Here is …

The "customer involvement program" ( CIP ) is a tool for online reporting of software bugs and of the ways how customers use AutoCAD, Inventor and other Autodesk products. The offer to take part in this program is displayed when you launch AutoCAD - you may remember this picture: This too…

AutoCAD WS (formerly "Project Butterfly" ) is a free, cloud version of a CAD editor that supports the DWG and DXF file formats. This CAD tool runs on virtually any device - so you can create and edit your CAD drawings anywhere - online from an internet browser (on any desktop computer, l…

Many have speculated about this in the latest months but it is still surprising - Autodesk brings the most popular CAD application - AutoCAD - in the native version for Apple MacIntosh - AutoCAD for Mac . AutoCAD for Mac already existed in the past. In the year 1992, AutoCAD R12 was released in th…

Autodesk just released the latest version of its plant design software - AutoCAD Plant 3D 2011. It is an important release for us as this is the first version of Plant 3D distributed also for the Czech market and XANADU is currently the sole authorized reseller of Plant 3D in Czechia. Plant 3D i…

New web rendering service Autodesk Project Neon is an interesting Labs product employing the "unlimited" computing performance of the internet server cloud. With this free web application ( technology preview by Autodesk Labs) you can easily create photorealistic renderings of views in …

In a cooperation with CADENAS, we have started a joint project - the online 3D CAD parts library at cadforum.partcommunity.com The international CAD portal CADforum.cz by XANADU (now "CAD Studio") offers a free 3D CAD web download library with millions of parts and product data, develo…

The new champion of the Czech Ice Hockey League 2009/2011 is the team of HC Eaton Pardubice. The success of this winner of the play-off series is based on its phenomenal goal-keeper Dominik Hasek, well known also from NHL where he played in the teams of Buffalo and Detroit. XANADU is a proud partne…

(Prague, April 1st) Autodesk has released a revolutionary simplified user interface in the new AutoCAD 2011. This is an unprecedented deed in the software industry, but other software vendors have already expressed their intentions to follow the same way. What is the matter? The costs of software …

In our communication with customers and other CAD/GIS users we often hear questions and proposals to simplify and streamline everyday work with CAD and GIS software. We at CAD Studio (former: XANADU) try to "materialize" these inducements into specific add-on applications, which customize…

XANADU Inc. (now "CAD Studio"), the leading supplier of CAD, GIS and IT solutions in the Czech and Slovak Republics is an Autodesk reseller since 1994. Autodesk has now awarded XANADU the highest level of partnership - the Autodesk Gold Partner for both the Manufacturing and Architectur…

With the new Autodesk Project Butterfly you can edit your DWG drawings inside a web browser, over the internet. After some initial attempts with limited functionality (ProjectDraw), Autodesk Labs now introduced a very interesting new web service which behaves more like a standard desktop version o…