Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Industrial Factory Automation: Icadsales Introduces ProgeCAD 2010 Professional
Nice post, thanks for the mention, right back at ya...
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Industry mention of progeCAD 2010 Professional!
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progeCAD 2010 Professional Supports AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2010 Users
Nice rollout about progeCAD by the folks in Como. A lot of cool stuff came out this time but I think the most important, the reliability and the speed improvements. This is easily the fastest progeCAD ever and I think users are going to be really pleased when they start producing drawings with it!
Want to try it out? Come get your free download at www.icadsales.com
progeSOFT Bats 1000 with latest release!
It seems progeSOFT must have talked extensively with their customers, or at least listened when they talked to them... Several items which were non existent in the product before now have been included in progeCAD 2010 which coincide with items we had heard customers request in the past.
Probably the number one request was for irregular viewports inside Paper Space layouts. progeCAD now has the ability to create non rectangular viewports in paper space. Gradient hatching was delivered, but more importantly, the development of which allowed gradient hatches to be delivered, is grayscale printing and screening while printing. This is a feature that many printers have supported for several years but progeCAD did not provide. Now the output coming from design groups can have some fantastic looking walls, and more than that, they will be able to communicate design intent...
"The Network version of progeCAD 2010 Professional features a new network license manager (NLM) which allows users to check out their licenses and take them with them keeping the software available to them until they return and release the license back to the NLM. This allows users to travel to and from work sites without losing the function of their network licenses while on the trip."
This was also asked about often. While progeCAD could allow a user to "take" his work home, the user had to be connected to the internet and have a constant connection communicating with the license server. Now a user can take his license with him to the job site, home over night to finish that project that is overdue, or even on his annual vacation to tibbuktu!.
These are just a few of the new items but with these additions it is clear progeSOFT not only made some fantastic improvement, but even more important, the LISTENED to their customers. It seems progeSOFT has a winner on their hands, and not only hit a home run with this one, but hit it clean out of the park. Way to go COMO!
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
progeCAD 2010 Professional Released, Read Write DWG 2010, Speed Increases, Improved Import from Adobe PDF, Windows 7 Compatible.
progeCAD 2010 Professional natively works with any drawing created with all versions of AutoCAD®, including the earlier versions going back to 1984. The latest release, DWG 2010 is now available as the most DWG compatible software on the planet, more compatible than AutoCAD itself!
In addition, progeCAD 2010 Professional provides other “just like” AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT features, such as an “AutoCAD Like” interface complete with duplicate menus, toolbars, and commands, compatible support files allowing you to move files such as fonts, hatch patterns, linetypes, directly from AutoCAD to progeCAD with little or no modification. Little or no learning curve is required for AutoCAD users to utilize progeCAD 2010 Professional. Our customers tell us they are productive creating designs immediately.
Unlike most AutoCAD compatible CAD programs, progeCAD 2010 Professional goes far beyond mere DWG file compatibility with dozens of extra features like gradient hatch patterns controlled with a new “AutoCAD Like” hatch dialog, a new complete properties bar, and DWG drawing save time improvement of up to 10 times the previous speeds. Nevertheless, progeCAD’s most inviting feature continues to be its incredibly low price compared to AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT.
ProgeSOFT spoke with their customers to find out what was important in this momentous release and fine tuned progeCAD 2010 with some of the most requested features.
Brand New Boundary Hatch Interface, including gradient hatching
Hatching has been made simpler to accomplish and improved to ensure reliable selection of objects to apply hatch patterns.
Advanced CTB (Greyscale print and Screening)
progeCAD now has the capability to plot in greyscale and to apply screening to objects via the printer.
Polygon Layout Viewport Boundaries in Paper space
Users can now plan none rectangular viewports within paper space to allow for more creative use of available design real estate.
Solprof - 2D profile image extraction from ACIS solids
Objects created with progeCAD 2010 Professional’s Solid Modeling commands can now be used to easily profile their 2D representations to create sections and views to allow for detailing and dimensioning.
Other developments include improved selection windows with dynamic entity highlighting and a new Property Palette, with hide & fly-out,
progeCAD 2010 now supports export to the following file formats: PDF, 3DS (Autodesk 3D Studio MAX), POV (Povray raytracer), Lightwave, ACIS .SAT, SVG (XML format), O2C, GoogleEarth KML, DWG and DXF (also a number of raster image formats). A number of other import and export tools are available including Google Sketchup, Alias Wavefront, IGES, STEP, Sterelithography files, and ESRI Arcinfo.
Performance & stability improvements have been made throughout progeCAD. Real time pan, zoom, file save and open operation, printing, 3D shaded models in rotation, 3D operation, paper space operation - all have been improved,
The very popular command PDF import has been integrated with the Adobe PDF Layers dramatically improving the end result of the importation of the PDF file. Drawings imported via the new abilities will negatively arrive with layers, dimensions, precise geospatial locations and metadata, etc. Users can start working with the imported drawings immediately without major upfront cleanup of raster to vector shortcomings. Likewise, when plotting to a PDF file, users can choose to include necessary information into the PDF files to allow collaboration, and real knowledge to be delivered along with the files, while safeguarding their designs in-house.
progeCAD’s compatibility with DWG 2010 and earlier drawings, easy-to-use, no learning curve, “AutoCAD Like” user interface, and wealth of features make progeCAD 2010 Professional a truly “professional” platform that is still unbelievably affordable – less than USD $400.00 suggested retail price. AutoCAD LT users should be especially interested in true ACIS 3D modeling, AutoLISP, VBA, and SDS (C++) program extensions – features not supported by AutoCAD LT.
Current progeCAD users are reminded that they can upgrade to the latest version at a significant discount to the already-low price of the full version. Network NLM, USB mobile, and corporate licensing options for the 2010 version are available.
Our progeADD-on vertical industry applications available at www.progecad.us have been updated to work seamlessly with progeCAD 2010 Professional. Choose from progeBILLD, a line of building services modules including electrial, hvac/plumbing, and mechanical/structural, along with an architectural design package, progeCAM, a link between part design and CNC Machining, or progeEARTH, A Civil Survey add-on.
The wealth of features and the uncanny resemblance to AutoCAD in progeCAD 2009 Professional will allow engineers, architects, designers and drafters to lower their CAD software and training budgets while still supporting the processes they are currently using. CAD users can open the same drawings, run the same menus and commands, with an almost non-existent learning curve by utilizing the compatibility of progeCAD 2010 Professional at 1/10th the price of AutoCAD.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Ketiv Technolgies In Portland Oregon Again
KETIV Technologies Announces a New Office in Portland, Oregon
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Kanwar Anand, President and CEO of KETIV Technologies, a leading Autodesk
authorized Value-Added Reseller (VAR), announced the opening of
offices in Portland, Oregon. The new office is located at 10260 SW
Greenburg Road, 4th Floor, Portland, OR 97223.
What an interesting turn of events. And quite brilliant from a marketing standpoint. Ketiv Technologies, circa 1980-2000 was a value added reseller for Autodesk products, and an Autodesk Registered Developer who sold their flagship product, ArchT, at the time the leading Architectural design application for AutoCAD, to Visio in 1998, and then completed sale of our company the following years to Rand Worldwide, now Imaginit here in the United States. Those familiar with those times may remember that is the years Autodesk decided the "partners" they had in their developer network were taking too much away from the mother ship and put them out of business by expanding into their markets. Thanks Big Brother. Now, the group who split off down in sunny California is now come to claim their rightful territory and refresh the memories of all those great people who worked at Ketiv in the early days here in Portland, and housed in the same office complex as the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium. Kudos to them.
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