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Economy: progeCAD users enjoy savings against high price of AutoCAD 2008-09-17 00:22:51 Once resorted to only by smaller businesses needing basic DWG CAD compatibility and AutoCAD
commands for 2D technical drawing, progeCAD is now making gentle inroads to larger companies. "Great! This (progeCAD) delivers just the right level of features for a fractional price
of what one copy of (AutoCAD) LT costs us..." wrote one office in Australia. "I sorted all our guys with progeCAD without ca Read more:against
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VariCAD 2008 3.0 3D Mechanical Design CAD Released 2008-08-05 05:08:28 The cross-platform Windows-Linux CAD for 3D mechanical design has released 2008 version 3.0. VariCAD is ideal for machine, jig, fixture and small project design.New Features Include:- Implementation of Unicode. The new version supports using fonts from anotherlanguages (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Russian etc.) and special characters.- Improved DWG/DXF file compatibility- More convenient system settin
Autodesk Escalates War on "Open DWG" File Technology 2008-07-15 22:41:03 progeCAD and similar products continue to win user confidence as low cost substitutes for overpriced CAD. And American corporation "Autodesk" is getting mad. Passive resistance to DWG clone technologies has developed into all out war, both in the court room and in the board room.The Open Design Alliance (ODA) is a nonprofit consortium of CAD companies cooperating in a rare way to clone one of the Read more:Technology
T-FLEX CAD CAM Requires Microsoft .NET 2.0 Runtime 2008-06-26 02:39:49 It is possible after installing T-FLEX CAD CAM to experience the error when starting T-FLEX that the application has "terminated unexpectedly". One reason this could occur is if the computer is missing the Microsoft
.NET 2.0 runtime.The .NET framework is not a T-FLEX specific program. It is an optional (and commonly used) part of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The CADDIT T-FLEX CAD instal Read more:Runtime
progeCAD: History Vault: My X11 Port to MS-DOS 2008-06-14 03:26:48 Many readers are unaware that CADDIT also participates in various splinter OSD projects. One of those is PythonD, a complete port of the python scripting language to the 32-bit DJGPP development platform for DOS. Another of these projects was a (yet another) failed attempt to port a functional X11 GUI framework to the same environment. A pasted IRC chat from the defunct #djgpp channel tells the st Read more:History
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CAD File Formats 2008-05-30 09:46:54 Since there is a lot of confusion about CAD files, I thought some of this would be helpful.Almost every CAD program has their own binary CAD format. And most CAD formats have many versions! For example, AutoCAD 12 cannot read AutoCAD 14 DWG any more than Word 97 can read Office XP docs.See: :CAD_file_formatsThere are some "more or less generic formats" used for exchange. Here are some:DXF (many ve Read more:Formats
Autodesk denied Summary Judgement in USA Court Ruling 2008-05-25 06:02:20 Autodesk was defeated in the first round of this battle in Seattle US District Court
, May 21 2008:Read Vernor versus Autodesk Judgement AnnouncementInterestingly, Autodesk is also resorting to more and more desperate measures to attack the Open Design Alliance: issues around this ruling are complex and a final district ruling is not due until June. But it could serve as an important benchmark for Read more:Summary
progeCAD 8.0.18 Free IntelliCAD Upgrade for Current progeCAD 2008 Customers 2008-04-24 04:36:08 progeCAD 2008 8.0.18 IntelliCAD has been released. This is a free upgrade for all current progeCAD 2008 customers. progeCAD Professional users can upgrade online simply by clicking "Help -> Check Update" from the progeCAD menu bar. progeCAD Standard and progeCAD Smart! will also be upgraded soon.New features and fixes in 8.0.18General features and fixesTEXT: Dwgcodepage will be automatically set t Read more:Current
TransMagic SP2 Reads SolidWorks 2007 Files 2008-04-23 00:30:16 Some may have had problems to read SolidWorks 2007 files within TransMagic. I am happy to say that this problem seems apparently fixed in the upcoming TransMagic SP2 release available at CADDIT soon.We have been working with the beta and SolidWorks 3D solid body topology seems to read in fine now. We did notice that TransMagic does not support reading the underlying parametric sketches, even when
Free progeCAD Upgrade Until 2009 Includes USB, Network and AutoCAD LT Upgrades 2008-11-04 19:23:21 Sydney, Australia - Efforts are underway at progeSOFT to release the most reliable low cost alternative to AutoCAD
ever. progeCAD 8.0.22-24 will be released free to all current progeCAD 2008 customers very soon. The 22-24 release will offer noticeable performance enhancements over the current version. The 2009 full release should be available by the turn of the year.Like last year, CADDIT will con Read more:Until
Why Buy AutoCAD LT? 2008-11-26 23:39:01 Economic slowdown, credit crunch, sustainability - these once academic buzz words have become household language in the last several months. But the falling prices of oil and stocks hasn't affected the high price of AutoCAD
and its limited feature version, AutoCAD LT. Professional engineering staff, including architects, civil, structural and industrial designers in various disciplines are affecte
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