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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…

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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 …

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AutoCAD localized versions
One of the reasons AutoCAD became so popular is and was its early localization into many languages. E.g. the first Czech version of AutoCAD was already the AutoCAD R10 from October 1988. The XANADU company was involved in AutoCAD localizations into Czech since AutoCAD Rel.13. In current versions, A…

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"Best IT web 2008" award for CADforum.cz
The leading Czech IT publishing house, CPress Media, his editors, the invited top experts in the areas of SEO, copywriting and graphics, and first of all, the readers of CPress' IT magazines have rated web services in the IT branch - in the contest "Nejlepší IT web 2008" ( The Best I…

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Meet the XANADU team
The most valuable asset of any company - and especially a company oriented on services - are their "people", the employees and their combined knowledge. And in the team of 85 employees of the XANADu company we have really top experts in IT areas we cover. Our specialists carry the highes…

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ERASE - the most frequent AutoCAD command
You might be surprised but the most commonly used AutoCAD command is neither LINE, CIRCLE nor DIM, but the ERASE command. And the most frequently used command sequence is ERASE-MOVE-COPY. This is the result of the analysis performed by Autodesk on the data sent by AutoCAD users who are taking part …

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Google Chrome and CAD web services
Google just released their own, new, fast and open internet browser "Google Chrome". This application - despite it is only a beta version and only for Windows - can substantially change the internet browser market. Well, "market" is probably not the right term here, as most brow…

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CAD Forum site redesign
We have redesigned our popular CAD portal CADforum.cz . This free web service, serving for more than 11 years now, brings information, tips, discussions and CAD blocks for download to CAD professionals from all over the world. Try yourself the now look and updated contents of CADforum.cz. Here are …

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Utilities updated for AutoCAD 2009
The regular one-year release cycle of Autodesk software puts some pressure not only on the users but also on the application developers. We at XANADU regularly rewrite (or rather just update and recompile) the suite of our AutoCAD and Inventor add-on applications every spring and summer. Good news …

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Where CAD meets Web
CAD applications generally belong to rather conservative sphere of computer technology. Also the start of using web technologies in CAD was slower than with other types of software. We still cannot see many CAD applications using "Web 2.0" technologies or online hosted tools like Google O…

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DBX utilities - batch operations for happier CAD managers
We provide many of the CAD utilities and tools developed in XANADU - for free. Some of these tools became pretty popular. We can see it from e-mail reactions and from the download counters on our web site. One of the most frequent requests coming both from CAD managers and from CAD users is the n…

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Safer landing at the Prague airport with Autodesk GIS
If you happen to come to Prague by plane, remember that the Prague airport infrastructure is managed using a GIS system by CAD Studio (former: XANADU) built on the Autodesk GIS technology. You can imagine the size of various facilities on an airport - the landing strips, the restricted grounds, …

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