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So you think you know AccuDraw #14: Settings

Not a lot of people realise that AccuDraw can be “fine tuned”. The settings aren’t something you’ll probably play with every day, but they can be very useful…

23rd of July 2008

So you think you know AccuDraw #13: GO!

On your marks - get set - GO! No, we’re not looking at Global Origins, we’re looking at how AccuDraw can call up certain tools…

21st of July 2008

So you think you know AccuDraw #12: Long-haul flight on the ACS plane

You may need to stay on your ACS plane longer than you first thought. Nigel gives us a refuelling stop and finds out where we are in the world…

16th of July 2008

Autodesk and Bentley's Unprecedented Interoperability Agreement

On Tuesday, July 8, 2008, the unthinkable happened. Autodesk and Bentley hosted a joint press conference at which they announced an agreement to expand interoperability between their respective portfolios of AEC software. They are proposing to accomplish this by exchanging software libraries, including Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write their respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments with greater fidelity. They will also support the use of each other’s APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to build better integration between their individual applications.

by AECbytes, 15th of July 2008

Problems with Autosave

One of the fundamental concepts in MicroStation that AutoCAD users often have trouble coming to terms with is the automatic saving of the files...

14th of July 2008

So you think you know AccuDraw #11: Leaving on an ACS plane

It’s more than likely that if you’ve used a rotation once, you’re going to need it again. These rotated co-ordinate systems are known as Auxiliary Coordinate Systems (ACS)…

10th of July 2008

So pigs do fly: Autodesk & Bentley working together!

Announced yesterday: ground-breaking agreement between Autodesk and Bentley to "the ability to read and write the companies’ respective DWG and DGN formats".

by Bentley Systems, 9th of July 2008

Bentley's BE Conference 2008 - Review

"Towards the end of May, I headed out to Baltimore to attend Bentley’s annual user event, the BE Conference (the “BE” stands for Bentley Empowered). Except for last year’s conference, I have been attending this event every year since 2004, and I find it a terrific opportunity to learn more about Bentley’s products and what its users are doing."

by AECbytes, 2nd of July 2008

Book of the Month: July

The Shining by Stephen King:

And oldie but goodie. We were out just the other night and got chatting about decent books and those that really made an impression on you when you were younger. The Shining was one that we all mentioned from back when Stephen King could still write a decent ghost story.

If you've not read it, take the opportunity. It's so much better than the Kubrick film, which while very well done, suffers the fate of most King books translated to the big screen: you lose the "imagination".

Anyway, curl up in bed with the light on and let yourself remember what a good ghost story should be.

by Nigel Davies & Karen Fugle, 1st of July 2008

The AccuDraw Challenge - the solution!

It was 3 months ago we asked you to “Beat the Editor” in our AccuDraw challenge. We’d like to present you with our solution - and see who beat the editor!

1st of July 2008