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Subscription Clients - Autodesk 2011 Software Via Download

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

For current Autodesk subscription clients the Autodesk 2011 products primary delivery mechanism is via a download. By downloading the software you will be able to receive the software quicker than waiting for a box of software. Your Software Coordinator will receive an email as soon as their serial number has been upgraded after the release of the 2011 product. The email, is sent from Download@autodesksubscription.com, contains the customer’s serial number and the product key, which is needed for installation. Please remind your customers to check their junk/spam folders for mail coming from Download@autodesksubscription.com because the emails sometimes end up there.

If you prefer to receive the software in a box your Software Coordinator can log into www.autodesk.com/subscription and change the delivery preference in your Subscription Center profile to “box.”

Enjoy the new software.

 

 

 

 

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Join the MasterGraphics Team!

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Sales Representative – Manufacturing Software and Services

MasterGraphics is looking for a high energy, high activity consultative Sales Representative to help grow our business within the manufacturing community. Celebrating our 60th anniversary this year, MasterGraphics is a well-established, solid organization with a number of untapped business opportunities.

You will be networking in to clients with design data needs, helping them to enhance their design process with Autodesk®’s suite of industry-leading CAD and digital prototyping tools. As a Premier Service Provider for Autodesk, MasterGraphics is authorized to provide not only the software but the installation, training and business consulting services that manufacturing organizations need to stay on top of their game. Our set of software and services positions both the customer and you for success.

This position will cover a territory that includes Madison and a radius north, west and south. It will roughly cover Rockford, IL up to Black River Falls and over into Iowa. The position will be based at our Madison headquarters.

Click here to learn more about this position and the benefits of joining the MasterGraphics Team

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Where to See the Autodesk 2011 Products

Monday, April 5th, 2010

By, Dan Banach

You know that it is spring time when Autodesk releases the next release of solutions. This year’s 2011 solutions contain many command enhancements and new functionality that will help your productivity. To see what’s new with the Inventor product line you can join us for a User Group meeting on 4/15/2010 in our Waukesha office, attend a webcast on 4/21 or 4/23.  To see a higher level presentation you can attend a “Seize the Opportunity with 2011 Autodesk Solutions for Manufacturing” seminar which will be held in different locations. To learn more about these events and to register please visit:

http://www.mastergraphics.com/events/manufacturing-events

Look for to seeing you at one of these events and sharing with you the exciting new solutions.

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Data Shortcuts

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Very early in the Civil 3D development I was asked a pretty heavy question. With all of these objects being in one file, what happens when we have several people working on a project? Aren’t all of those objects locked in a file that is “in use,” and only Read Only for the rest of the team?

Years ago this was true. But that was early in the development of Civil 3D. Data shortcuts have been developed as an answer to that situation. They make the definition of certain objects available to be shared with several files at a time. Notice I say “the definition.” That is the intelligence behind the objects that you are using, and if that part can be made available outside of the drawing then everybody can use it. This is accomplished through the magic of LandXML , which efficiently carries a lot of definitions.

These definitions are made available after you’ve saved a file, and identified where the LandXML file will be stored. That file then becomes the connection that all of the other files can search for, and pull data from. I’ve often described the LandXML file like the old time operator at the switchboard, making and maintaining all of the connections between callers. Pathing is critical for the LandXML to do its job, so where the projects go, and where the individual files are important.

Besides the project coordination that data shortcuts provide, there is also breaking a project into smaller working drawings. There is no need to have the surface definition in the file with your design when you could have the smaller reference of that definition and do the same work. It is a great tactic for making large projects run faster and more smoothly. Some have describe this as “like an XREF.” Not completely, but as far as concepts go, sure. Using data shortcuts allows the other files to name or style objects differently without affecting other drawings. You can change anything but the definition wherever the data shortcut reference is being used.

Make sure you are familiar with data shortcuts as your design process begins. You could very quickly realize the benefits !

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