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New CAD Studio blog in Czech
Thousands of users of Autodesk's software already use some of our community web services as their source of technical information. CAD Studio runs quite a number of such web resources - most of them are primarly targeted to Czech and Slovak users (see an overview ) - the CAD Forum por…

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Project Galileo - where CAD+BIM+GIS meets
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 …

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Bunch of news from Autodesk University 2010
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 …

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How good is your CAD hardware?
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…

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AutoCAD WS - the web cloud AutoCAD
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…

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AutoCAD 2011 now returns to Macintosh
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…

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Autodesk and Cloud computing - they really mean it
Autodesk takes the web cloud computing seriously. And I am not talking just about the latests tools from Autodesk Labs - various web-based tools are available from Autodesk for several years already. Maybe they were not called by the popular buzzword "cloud" at that time but they are web…

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New CAD tool for plant design - AutoCAD Plant 3D 2011
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…

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Cloud rendering with Autodesk Project Neon
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 …

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Cooperation with CADENAS - CADforum Partcommunity portal
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…

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Show what's normally hidden...
No, I am talking about things normally hidden in AutoCAD drawings. Sometimes you just want to reveal more and show data which normally stay hidden. There are several areas of hidden data, hidden parameters and information deep in the DWG drawing database. And here are some methods how to dig out …

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Free AutoCAD and other Autodesk software
Did you know there are several ways how you can get AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Inventor, Mechanical or 3ds Max for free? Yes, Autodesk gives its software for free for selected groups of users. The major one of these groups are students. In most countries, students can download and use educational versions …

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