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The Warehouse wars

David Hargreaves has a good summary of the events to date in the fight for The Warehouse Limited just as the battle is about to heat up… War of The Warehouse - Stuff.co.nz D-Day is nearly upon us... Read more →

Excel to AutoCAD, do you read me?

CAD Geek Blogger Donnie Gladfelter has a great post on the new AutoCAD 2008 to Microsoft Data link feature. I only recently found his blog and it’s well worth subscribing to! Linking Excel and Au... Read more →

BIM, Bam Beam, Blog!

It’s yet another Autodesk product team. BIM Beam is co-authored by Nicolas Mangon Wai Chu of the Revit Structure team. Shaan Hurley, who started all this Autodesk blog thing (and indirectly even mi... Read more →

Mesmerised...

It’s only one of a four part series but as I work in an office where we’ve had a few fire alarms due to toast I just love Mesmerised… View the others at It’s a new day. It’s a new Microsoft vide... Read more →

He’s alive in the Lab!

Some of you might recognise Scott Sheppard (below), formerly of Beyond the Paper – The DWF Blog . He’s handed that over to Joseph Volker and moved into the Lab. It’s Alive in the Lab Welcome... Read more →

New Zealand Roads, Route Finding and Tourism info on Google Earth

If you’re considering visiting New Zealand Google Earth can help. Tourism New Zealand have added a “100% Pure New Zealand” info layer to Google Earth with details on destinations, Scenic highlights an... Read more →

Corporate IT Unleashed?

Often corporate IT overhead is devoted to locking down users for security and control. What if you tried another approach and devoted it to education? Have a look at this fascinating article about... Read more →

Miguel's BIMania on You-Tube

I got to know Miguel Krippahl when I commented on his post regarding the lack of ArchiCAD blogs . I found that while searching for ArchiCAD blogs! His blog about BIM concepts, philosophy and softwa... Read more →

Autodesk Design Review 2008 - Flying out to format mark-ups

Autodesk Design Review 2008 (ADR) introduces many new features and you certainly can’t complain about the price, free! However new is always not always better. ADR 2007 exposed the format tools for... Read more →

No 64 bit for AutoCAD Architecture 2008?

Thinking about that new 64 bit OS/Machine for AutoCAD Architecture? Before you go shopping check out this comment and screenshotf rom Jason (copied from this post) and an ACA Discussion Group thread.... Read more →