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For about 13 years we have been running and extending our free conversion utility Units Converter (converter of physical units, see the section Converters on the CADforum.cz portal) with more than 750 different measurement units, including historical and international units (asian, south-american…

There is no longer a recommendation for using the simplest SHX font to quickly display texts in AutoCAD DWG drawings - i.e. the Txt.shx font. With the help of our new freeware utility CMDtimer - see the tip - we have compared performance of regeneration of a drawing containing an extensive tex…

Autodesk has been a pioneer in a rapidly evolving field of ​​so-called generative design for many years - of a new design process in which you only enter the input requirements of the design, not its particular shape and material - and the computer then designs different shapes, analyzes them, cre…

One week ago, on April 24th, CAD Studio organized a large spring online conference - "Autodesk LIVE 2019". During this interactive public video stream, we introduced the new Autodesk 2019-family software products, plus complementary add-on applications from our own development. The morni…

The newly released AutoCAD 2019 (aka "One AutoCAD", "AutoCAD including specific toolset") brings a substantial change in licensing. AutoCAD subscribers now get also all functions and libraries from the 7 industry-specific AutoCAD verticals - i.e. Architecture, Mechanical, Map 3…

The most popular social network - Facebook - started to support publishing of live, interactive 3D content directly in "wall" posts in user profiles and company pages. This new function has currently a number of limitations, but it generally allows to publish simpler 3D models to explore …

Since several years, Autodesk has been offering the system service "A360 Desktop" (part of the installation of CAD applications) that creates a "A360 Drive" - virtual drive linked to your Autodesk A360 personal cloud storage and handles bi-directional synchronization of your clo…

Autodesk ReMake (originally "Project Memento") is a reverse-engineering application, a complete reality-capture tool for converting 3D scans or photos to high-resolution 3D models. This application now moves to ReCap Photo and becomes a part of the subscription to the existing Autodesk R…

All major Autodesk products like AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, Civil 3D, 3ds Max, Navisworks and new cloud-based tools like Fusion 360 and BIM 360 are offered in the form of complete "Industry Collections". These sets cover all or almost all parts of common design workflows in the given indus…

Since April 2017, users of Microsoft Windows 10 can download their Spring update for this operating system, the "Creators Update". One of the new features in this updated Windows version, which could be interesting for professional CAD users (besides 3D Painter), is the newly added Game …

This is a short update of our two years old post on this blog. Google Trends shows changes in popularity of major CAD and BIM software over time - in frequency of users's searches on Google, worldwide. This automatic "internet poll" analyzes data from over 100 billion searches that…

We celebrated 20 years of the web site CADstudio.cz . This address is active since the year 1996, since the very beginning of the Internet in the Czech Republic. By that time, the mostly used (and practically the only) web browser was Netscape, and vistors with a purely textual web browser were no…