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Congrats to HC Pardubice - champions of the Czech Hockey League
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…

Revolutionary change in the AutoCAD 2011 user interface
(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 …

FDO LineStyle for easier GIS maps
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…

3 Golds for XANADU
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…

AutoCAD as a web application
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…

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…