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For those of you that missed out on the amazing day that was DEVELOP3D Live last month; revisit a favourite talk, or catch-up on one that clashed with your schedule, then the videos are now online!

We’re uploading these in small batches, along with some exclusive interviews with each of the speakers from the day - so keep checking back for any that you are desperate to see!

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The Eames Molded Plastic Chair, created by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller, is being reintroduced in fibreglass, but in a new, more environmentally sensitive material chemistry and manufacturing process.

First introduced by Herman Miller in 1950 as the first mass-produced plastic chair, the iconic design continued to evolve throughout the years with new colors, height options, base variations, and the application of upholstery. 

By the late 1980s it had become evident that fiberglass reinforced plastic shells, the original ‘plastic’ material, were detrimental to the environment, in both their manufacturing process and at the end of a chair’s useful service.

One question I often have when teaching Revit is ‘how can we control the plot styles in Revit?’.

That question is obviously come from AutoCAD users. Revit doesn’t have plot styles. But certainly, we can control how the objects to appear when we plot.

Object styles

Objects in Revit is controlled by object styles. You can access object styles in Manage tab, Settings panel.

As you can see below, in object styles dialog box you can control the line properties.

For example, railing is drawn with black line and solid line pattern. It will be shown with line weight 1 in projection. And 2 when cut.

Visibility/Graphics Overrides

We can override object styles for specific views. We can do this with visibility/graphic overrides.

You can access this tool in view tab, graphic panel. Or default shortcut for this tool is VG.

If you set any value here, then your view will use it instead of object styles.

Filters

Filter is another way how you can override object appearance. It has higher priority than object styles and visibility/graphics override.

It means, doesn’t matter how you set object styles and visibility graphic overrides. If you override settings in filter, then your view will use it instead.

About filters

You can set a common property for filter. By using filter, you are not limited to a specific object. For example, you can set properties for interior walls, doors, and stairs at once. As long as they have common property, you can set it in filter.

In this example, you can see common property for those objects is function.

It means only interior wall and stairs will be included. Exterior walls and stairs are not. You can create filters from view tab, graphic panel.

In this sample, the filter rule is set for function: interior. You can set 2 more conditions if necessary.

Overriding filters visibility

After you define your filters, you can override the visibility. It’s also in Visibility/Graphics Overrides, in filters tab.

Click add to add filter to the list, and change the properties as necessary.

View templates

View templates is the highest priority, since Revit 2013. View templates can store visibility settings for your view. Once you have it set, you can apply it to views you want to. By having templates, you can set the visibility only once. You don’t need to change properties for each view.

If you apply view template to a view, all filters override will be removed. And visibility/graphics override is greyed out. You are no longer able to change it.

Read more about view templates here.

Changing line weight

Now we know how we can set object visibility in Revit, including the line weight. But how do we set the line weight for plotting? Revit only has integer number, not real plot thickness.

You can see and change the plot thickness in ribbon> Manage tab> Settings panel> Additional Settings> Line Weights.

As you can see above, line weight 1 will be plotted 0.18 mm or 0.10 mm. Depends on the view scale.

It’s not difficult, isn’t it?

Specifications

1.Nickel-Iron rechargeable battery:10Ah~1000Ah
2.SGS, GOST standard
3.10~20C discharge rate
4.15~20 years
5.-20~50’C

Changhong Nickel-Iron rechargeable batteryis widely used as DC back-up power supply for railway, rolling stocks, mine tractors, petrochemical, oil and gas, electricity industries, photovoltaic and other renewable power applications.

Nowadays, more and more countries have attached great importance on environmental protection and advocate using green energy. Because of its high reliability, long service life, lower maitenance cost, pollution-free and other characterizes, the Ni-Fe batteries are gradually replacing lead-acid batteries in wide ranges of applications, especially in photovoltaic and renewable energy applications.

Benefits of Changhong Pocket plate Ni-Fe (Ni-Iron/TN) Rechargeable Battery

Excellent charging efficiency and smooth discharge voltage
High reliability without sudden death
Ability to withstand ultra-high and ultra-low environmental temperatures
Withstand physical and mechanical abuses
Exceptionally long & reliable service life
Pollution-free green energy
low Self-discharging
No emission of corrosive gases, Safe from flame & explosion
Pollution-free and excellent mechanical strength
Convenient for installation and low maintenance
Comply with SGS and GOST standard.
Availability to design and manufacture other model according to user’s requirements

Gus has written a few great articles for Design & Motion over the last 12 months. Both of the Windows 8 articles are among D&M’s most successful blog posts ever, so it’s about time we recognized him by putting his bio up on our new Guest Writers page. Sorry we haven’t done this sooner Gus. Now this [...]

Collaboration Helps Build A 3D Design and 3D Printing Ecosystem That
Makes Designing and Printing in 3D Even

Bose is looking for several world-class industrial designers to join their team. They are hiring for multiple positions. These positions are located at the Bose Design Center in Framingham, MA, about 30 minutes from Boston.

They are looking for industrial design graduates with 0-2 years of work experience. Creative, passionate, out-of-the-box thinkers. Consulting experience or internship work (if a recent grad). Thrive on exploring possibilities and building to see ideas through. Exceptional sketching and rapid visualization skills (in paper, wacom, cardboard, masking tape, and rubber bands). Conceptual engineering abilities to design assemblies/mechanisms for prototypes. 3D modeling skills in Rhino, Solidworks, or other 3D package. Visualize and render in Keyshot or Modo. Proficient using AdobeSuite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign). Knowledgeable about production processes and materials.

STANDARD BRUSHING UNIT WITH ROD
REGULATION UST TYPE
This type of unit is used for big belts in particular working conditions as the conveying of wet and doughy material and slugs. Standard Ø 300 mm. On demand Ø 270÷350

BRUSHING UNITS FOR CONVEYOR BELT
Belts transporting any kind of material require frequent maintenance as slugs and residues, when not removed after unloading, may accumulate in the pulleys and on the rollers’ return causing wear and tear and damage to the belts. The Brushing Units for Conveyor Belts, projected and manufactured by S.I.T. in order to obtain a radical belts’ cleanliness and prevent the clogging that takes place with the traditional type of cleaner, have assembled as brushing gear a special cylindrical shaped brush with helical segments (strip) (see fitting shape on page 74 - master rolls).
The Brushing Units consist of a modular frame on which both brushand engine are mounted. The frame is fitted to the whole conveyor belt’s structure by tighten means of bolts. Usually, the mounted engines are asynchronous three-phased engine, 3 PH 220-380 V. Tension, 50Hz, closed construction, external ventilation and rotor. Protection IP44.
B5 construction forms for UST type and B3 for USLT. The brush is set in action by an electrical engine along with a driving belt (USLT) or a geared-engine (with helical coaxial gears) with elastic joints (UST).
The brush pressure regulation can be adjusted by the lateral eye pulling rods. The body of the brush consists of a steel shaft carrying turned cast iron disks, on which the "Strip" brushes are fixed by aluminum dowels screwed around them.

Prima Electro is a Contract Electronics Manufacturing company based in Europe that designs and produces a Turnkey Service including boards, inverters, dirves, UPS’s, converters and complete control units for industrial and rail applications. DOTS (Direct Off The Shelf) is the Prima Electro brand dedicated to electronics, having a business model focused on actual customer’s needs. The aim of DOTS is to provide “dedicated” products tailored to customer’s specifications, requirements and applications, but with the same industrialisation level as any standard commercial product. It is a business model that combines the ability to offer dedicated solutions with a fast time-to-market and competitive costs. Thanks to its technical skills, state of the art manufacturing facilities and flexibility, AnsaldoBreda chose Prima Electro to design and produce two different control units which are installed on the high-speed EMU V250 train. (Holland-Belgium).
The Bogie Stability Monitoring control unit has two accelerometers installed on the bogie and is made according to the EN50155 regulations and SIL 2 certficate. The Control Unit for Hot Box Detection, also complies with the EN50155 regulations and is SIL3 certified. Following this very successful collaboration with AnsaldoBreda, Prima Electro are also able to offer their manufacturing capabilities for similar Control Units to other companies working in the Railway industry sector.

Meaning modern creation and with an x alluding to its sleek x-shaped base, Xylia is a compelling statement piece. Diverging from the usual table lamp aesthetic, the dimming LED technology of Xylia exudes gradating light from a stainless steel base through magically precise chambers of crystal to create a modern aura. Xylia is the perfect cutting-edge lighting design for an urban atmosphere.

May 20, 2013- For Immediate release - VUEWorks®, an industry leader in GIS-integrated Asset and Work Management software is ready for a new releas

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In a continuing effort to improve customer experience and product quality, we released a Service Pack 2 for AutoCAD 2013. For detailed information on issues addressed in this service pack, installation, and notes on changes please make sure to review the ReadMe before installing.

ILM's Roger Guyett discusses J.J. Abrams' hybrid vision for his latest Star Trek movie.

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MAYA Heat Transfer Technologies Limited and Preissner Engineering and Consulting LLC are teaming up to present at the Femap Symposium on 27^th June. Eric Preissner of PEC will be discussing how Femap was used in a study of the dynamic response of the Landsat 8 satellite ground transport/handling system – a large system analysis in a dynamic design process with many iterations.

If you haven’t already registered for the Femap Symposium, do so now – there’s just over a month to go. This presentation also illustrates how the Femap with NX Nastran Structural Analysis Toolkit helped with this study, and demonstrates how you can use the Femap API with an Excel application to drive model modifications.

Primary Structure of the Hessi Spacecraft

The Femap Symposium is being held at the Cincinnati Marriott at RiverCenter, Covington, Kentucky on June 26 and 27^th. Register now to secure your place at this great event and find out more about using Femap with NX Nastran, the Structural Analysis Toolkit and the Femap API in a dynamic response analysis.

Alastair

This video covers the SolidWorks flex feature which allows you to deform bodies in complex ways.  The details of how to use this feature as well as the 4 different flex types are shown.  The four flex types are, bend, twist, taper, and stretch.  With the flex feature, the user has the ability to control where the center of the feature is located, what part of the model is affected, as well as the extent of the flex feature.  I hope you find this video helpful and try using this feature in your next model.

Ian Jutras

May 20, 2013 - JETCAM International s.a.r.l. today announced the signing of Lazerist Makina as a reseller for its range of sheet metal software produ

May 20, 2013
An engineering subcontractor says Radan’s Project Nesting function has changed his life and completely revolutionised the way his

Oxford, England. May 20, 2013
 
So far, registrations for the PLM Financial Framework series (MCADCafe 15 May) are all from user companies. In

May 20, 2013 - ESTECO announces it will be the main sponsor of the 1st International Conference on Simulation Process & Data Management (SPDM), in

Centralized Location Provides One-stop Resource for Customer Support Needs
May 20, 2013 - Hexagon Metrology today launched the new Hexagon Metrology

GIVAT SHMUEL, Israel, May 20, 2013 — (PRNewswire) — Cimatron Limited (NASDAQ: CIMT) today announced that the new CimatronE 11, the lat

Execute commands by typing in the Command line, plus more tips, tools, and resources for CAD managers and users.

Driven by a love of craft and physical materials, the hands-on approach is enjoying an inspiring resurgence in the design world. Angharad Lewis investigates

If you’re already familiar with Pro/ENGINEER, you’ll find PTC Creo familiar and intuitive in many ways, especially with the newly added PTC Creo Flexible Modeling Extension (FMX).

PTC recently joined forces with Connect Press to host a 60-minute Flexible Design with PTC Creo webcast. On May 14^th,  Brad Tallis, a 13 year PTC technical sales veteran who specializes in PTC Creo demonstrated how the PTC Creo Flexible Modeling Extension enables you to:

• Quickly and easily make late-stage design changes
• Easily modify both native CAD and imported 3D models
• Provide users with easy-to-use geometry editing, so that they can work fast and flexibly
• Accommodate model changes, even when the user doesn’t understand or want to rework design intent

Watch the 40-minute presentation followed by a Q&A session by heading over to the Connect Press PTC Creo Community page.  

Soft focus refers to an effect where the image isn’t in focus, yet it’s not entirely out of focus either. In Photoshop we can control the way light falls onto an image to replicate this traditional photographic lens effect.

Before

After

Step 1

Add a slight blur to your image by going to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Set the Radius slider to 2px, just to reduce sharpness.

Step 2

Load your Channels palette from inside the Window menu, and Cmd/Ctrl-click on the RGB Channel’s thumbnail. This will load a selection over the bright parts of your image.

Step 3

In your Layers palette, press Cmd/Ctrl+J to create a new layer containing the selected highlights. Change this layer’s blend mode to Screen.

Step 4

Go back to your Gaussian Blur filter and finish off the effect by applying a blur of 9px. Hit OK and control the opacity of the layer if needed to reduce the effect.

Swift-fix fixturing and work holding system works with range of measurement equipment.

Includes updated material wizard and cost models.

Direct modeling technology for casting design and simulation.

Automatically feed engineering data to NetSuite manufacturing solution.

Includes automatic decomposition tool and true domain decomposition.

Enables developers to display 300 different file types on a website.

Supports Revit MEP 2014 and DWG file import.

Working on the NHL Winter Classic, Pepsi Fan Jam, MTV’s Iggy Awards, and A-list concerts is just another day at the office for the Performance Environment Design Group LLC (PEDG), a team of creative professionals who orchestrate structural, scenic, lighting, video, motion, and compositional details from offices in Lancaster, PA and Los Angeles, CA. Their transformational designs have yielded industry accolades, and they are repeatedly tapped by the same clients for their attention to detail and quality work.

PEDG uses the Vectorworks Designer program to manage all aspects of production, including occupancies, as well as scenic, audio, and video elements. Courtesy of Brian Friedman for iHeartRadio.

We recently spent some time with three members of PEDG’s creative team to learn how they employ Vectorworks Designer software to achieve success. The result is a new case study that launches into PEDG’s work on Clear Channel’s 2012 iHeartRadio event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The article describes how the design team got the two-day event off the ground while mediating challenges associated with the sheer logistics of accommodating 22 top-tier artists, improving upon the previous year’s show with a similar budget, and meeting a tight timeline.

The backdrop for the NFL Kickoff 2012 was New York’s world-renowned Rockefeller Center. By night, it was a world unto itself where NFL-logoed lights beamed onto the buildings beyond in dramatic fashion. Courtesy of Meteor Tower.

The story continues, detailing how a mere two-and-a-half weeks before the iHeartRadio Music Festival, PEDG pulled off another equally amazing set with the NFL Kickoff. Marking the official start to the professional football season, this event celebrates the previous Super Bowl winner’s hometown. In 2012, singer Mariah Carey and the band No Doubt made the 2012 show at New York’s Rockefeller Center a hit.

Read about PEDG’s dramatic transformation of this world-renowned setting and the rest of story by clicking here.

Consumers have traditionally made buying decisions based on whether a product was well designed, useful, affordable, and/or attractive. Today, however, many consumers are weighing in a product’s sustainability—or lack thereof—as well so manufacturers must add the environmental impact of products to their growing list of requirements they must meet.

Everyone knows that designing for sustainability is good for the environment, but what many organizations are now finding is that it’s also good for business. According to the 2012 Sustainability & the CFO Study, conducted by Verdantix on behalf of Deloitte Touche, sustainability is now integral to how businesses run with nearly half (49%) of the CFOs surveyed identifying a significant link between sustainability performance and financial performance.

With the C-Suite on board, organizations are now turning to product designers and engineering departments to help implement sustainable product design, and the path to sustainable product design starts with the use of sustainable materials. The goal being to eliminate the possibility those products could contribute to emissions of greenhouse gases, destruction of rainforests, damage to workers’ health or seepage of toxic materials into soil or water.

Materials science accelerates to meet growing needs

Modern material science has gotten to the point at which newer, more sustainable materials will drive innovations that will meet the demands of future markets by boosting efficiency and reducing waste, which will ultimately increase companies’ competitiveness by lowering costs and meeting the needs of increasing green-minded consumers.

Sustainability has clearly influenced the advancement of new materials, such as durable bioplastics, recycled content products, printed electronics, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDS), and molded ceramics. The goal of these new materials is the same: to lower environmental impact by using non-toxic materials that require a minimum amount of energy and water to produce, can be recycled completely or composted, and are part of a closed loop system.

One such material, Bioplastics, are derived from popanediol (PDO) obtained from bacterial fermentation of corn sugar and claim lower impact status through their use of renewable resources that sequester carbon during their growth. Another benefit is that they can be recycled at end of life. Smith Optics is currently using this material in the frames of its Prodigy ski goggles.

How to get started

There are various tools, guides as well as outside consultants that can help steer manufacturers in their quest for greener materials. One such company, Materials Connexion, offers material intelligence consulting that has helped big-time manufacturers, such as BMW, Procter & Gamble, Nike, Nissan, Nokia and Samsung, in their sustainable product design efforts.

The company has also partnered with the founders of Cradle to Cradle design to create a global design platform for developing innovative, sustainable materials and products. Using their respective knowledge of sustainable materials and product development processes, they work closely with manufacturers to design and develop sustainable products. Materials Connexion also offers online materials libraries with over 4,000 materials.

Engineering and design tools are also evolving to help guide engineers in the design of sustainable products. Early-stage, eco-impact assessment tools, such as Sustainable Minds’ LCA and PE International’s GaBi software all offer a comprehensive approach to selecting sustainable materials and one that doesn’t require designers to sacrifice product performance to achieve environmental gains.

The Bottom Line

The bottom line is that sustainability is not just a materials issue. It must also take into account the environmental impacts of the design and manufacturing processes; the efficient use of natural resources; and the impact of the product on human health and safety. Companies have to start somewhere, however, and carefully choosing the materials with which to create new products is a very good start on the road to sustainable product design.

Hey Maya people!  I just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be hosting an upcoming Maya centric webcast next week on Tuesday May 28th at 1pm PDT / 4pm EST

Agenda:

• What is the Maya Open Data initiative?
• What is Scene Assembly?
  
• Triggering Scene Assemblies: Manual, Event, Render
  
• Custom Tools for Managing Scene Assembly
• Characters  Assemblies
  

Details below…

Date: Tuesday May 28

Time: 1pm PDT/ 4pm EST

Join Autodesk Technical Specialist, Steven Roselle as he discusses the Maya Open Data initiative and demonstrates a variety of Scene Assembly workflows.

The Maya Open Data initiative is about providing tools, functionality and workflows that facilitate the management of complex scenes, parallel pipelines and custom data.  As part of this initiative, Scene Assembly was designed and implemented in Maya 2013 Extension Release, and expanded in May 2014.   Scene Assembly is a new scalable referencing system for Maya 2014. Steven will demonstrate how Scene Assembly makes managing and manipulating complex scenes more intuitive and efficient.

Register here -> Registration Page

NOTE:  If you participate in the forums or comment on blog there is an Area update that you should know about.  Check out this post to find out what you need to do to make sure your post history is preserved ->  Area Forum Update

May 20, 2013 -- The University of Leeds, UK, has purchased a state of the art laser scanning system from 3D Laser Mapping. The RIEGL VZ-1000, whi

May 20, 2013 -- Leading Edinburgh technology company, Sigma Seven, has won another significant new customer, achieving new project wins totallin

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Autodesk,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has signed a definitive agreement

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The Vermont Center for Geographic
Information (VCGI) announced the

LenovoEMC products are now available through Lenovo’s industry
leading distribution network

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