| August 2009 |
CAD-N-Lighting Design News |
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• Project Showroom How Sweet It Is
Project Showroom is the vision of a new web-based tool. It allows you to browse product selections from leading manufacturers and get a feel for how those products will look in real-world settings.
The preview is easy to use. Simply select products of interest; then drag and drop them into the virtual space. Project Showroom requires no download and no special software. All you need is a standard web browser.
• Click here to give it a try • • Click to enlarge rendering • |
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• More AutoCAD Mac Platform Talk - Thomas Heermann of Autodesk talks about move to Mac platform, plans about Inventor, Design Review for Mac, moving Alias Design to fully Cocoa-based user interface,
Al Dean, Mac Design. Click here to keep reading |
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• LD Assistant Helps Sell The Job!
Indirect illumination techniques like global illumination and final gathering enhance the realism of a scene by simulating radiosity, or the interreflection of light in a scene.
Below you will find a few of the advanced rendering features:
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Materials
Texture filtering
Force 2-sided
Sampling
Min-Max
Filter type, width
Shadows
Mode
Shadow map
Shadow multiplier
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Indirect Illumination
Photons/sample
Radius off/on
Max depth
Max reflections
Final Gather
Mode Auto on/off
Rays
Radius mode on/offs
Min - Maxradius
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Ray Tracing
Max depth
Max reflections
Light Properties
Photons/light
Energy multiplier
Diagnostic
Processing
Tile size & order
Memory |
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- Nothing More To Buy - Nothing Else To Learn -
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Featured Lighting Designer - Michael Köster
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Michael Köster: QConcept OHG is located in Leichlingen, Germany and is the official LD Assistant Support and Resale Center for Germany. Michael Köster calls Berlin home and likes sailing and skiing when time permits. His duties with QConcept include job planning, touring, exhibitions, lighting TV shows and rigging. Michael has been using LD Assistant for a little over three years, and is now in charge of CAD training for QConcept. "I like the fact that LD Assistant uses the real AutoCAD DWG file, so when I work with other designers I don’t have any problems opening AutoCAD files," says Michael. "With the rendering only taking a few minutes I can work through what the final project will look in short order." |
- Know All The Facts Before You Buy -
The Closer You Look, The Better LD Assistant Looks
For Professionals Who Demand The Best
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• Autodesk Takes Lead in Harnessing Graphics Power for CPU Tasks - Autodesk speeding up simulation of plastic flow in injection molded components using GPU acceleration in its Moldflow Insight 2010, Greg Corke, Develop3D
• MIRROR Command - using AutoCAD command to create flipped copy of object, more complex tasks, Erhan Toker, Daily AutoCAD
• Align Objects - aligning objects based on pairs of points picked, Kate Morrical, LT Unlimited
• LTSCALE, PSLTSCALE, CELTSCALE and MSLTSCALE - AutoCAD commands to control linetypes, Mark Kiker, CADDManager Blog
• Enrich Yor DWF - range of Autodesk component technologies available for creating, manipulating, displaying DWF files, embedding Freewheel in websites for client-free DWF viewing, Kean Walmsley, Autodesk University
• Use the Shift Key as Shortcut - list of tasks done using shift key in AutoCAD, Ellen Finkelstein.com
• A PDF Wish Comes True! - AutoCAD 2010 creates much smaller PDF with higher resolution, text transfers as text, fonts translate as fonts, Lynn Allen, Cadalyst
• Mesh Split and Mesh Extrude - splitting, extruding faces in mesh in AutoCAD, Guillermo Melantoni, What a Mesh!
• Conversion from Mesh Into Solid (Pt 1) - using CONVTOSOLID command in AutoCAD, conditions for converting object into solid, Guillermo Melantoni, What a Mesh!
• Drawing a Roof Using Surfaces - drawing ridged roof onto frame in AutoCAD, Gokalp Baykal, Daily AutoCAD
• CAD Management: Planning for Progress - CAD managers live in two different modes. The first is the tyranny of the urgent and the second is the desire for the future.
• Supply Meets Demand - Engineers, architects, and designers demand more from their computing platforms than ever before. For these professionals, pure performance is critical for design, modeling, animations, and analysis of 3D designs. For these users, HP’s new Z-series workstations offer breakthrough levels of performance and scalability far beyond the reach of past solutions.
• An AutoCAD Hip Tip on Super Speedy Dimensioning - video, multiple dimensioning simultaneously using QDIM express tool, Lynn Allen's Blog
• The Benefits of 2D Parametric Design - parametric drawing tools in AutoCAD 2010 help users control design intent, override constraints anytime, use formulas, user variables, Guillermo Melantoni, Experience Building
• Writing Backwards - create new style, setting MIRRTEXT system variable to 1 in AutoCAD, Orhan Toker, Daily AutoCAD
• AutoCAD 3D Conceptual Design 109 - creating concentric cylinder, using SPHERE command to draw sphere at top of cylinder, Heidi Hewett, AutoCAD Insider
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• Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds - portable workstation fitted with Intel Core2 Q9000 quad-core processor, 4GB RAM, built-in Wacom digitizer, 2 screens, full keyboard, Mark Fletcher
• HP Mini 110 - It's hard to see how netbooks could get much cheaper, but each new generation drives the price floor down, offering better parts for less starting at $399.00
• Google Voice - Google Voice wants to be the center of your voice communications. The Web-based service combines a lot of things: a permanent follow-around phone number; voice mail with transcriptions; and text messaging, to name a few. |
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LD Assistant 08.5 |
• Event Planning
Advanced production tools speed the creation of realistic seating arrangements, tables and chairs placement, curtains, back drops, drapery, doors / windows, stage stairs, security post and line - and much more. Track the complete event project with customized reports and paperwork
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• Preview Window
With LD Assistant 08, you can view your design from any reference point in the room using the new Camera Preview Window. One mouse point and click delivers a wire frame or rendered preview.
Easily drop cameras
into
your drawing
to
check your site lines!
You can turn a camera on or off in a drawing, and use grips to edit a camera’s location, target, or lens length. A camera is defined by a location XYZ coordinate, a target XYZ coordinate, and a field of view/lens length, which determines the magnification, or zoom factor.
Note: Users can view the camera preview window in wire frame or rendered, and it is a REAL-TIME view. That means as you move the camera you see the change instantly. |
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• Clear, clean plots
LD Assistant Ac 08.5 produces clean plots every time. When you are ready to hand the design back to an architect, you won't have to worry about if it will open - or any other compatibility issues. LD Assistant Ac 08 is built with AutoCAD® technology, so it's 100% compatible! |
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• Next Generation Rendering and Animation
In LD Assistant Ac 08, as light illuminates a colored object in the model, photons bounce to adjacent objects and tint them with the color of the original object. Indirect illumination enhances the realism of a scene by simulating ‘radiosity’, or the interreflection of light between objects in a scene.
When a material used in LD Assistant is transparent (like clear glass), the energy transmitted is ‘specular’, and light passes directly through the material (subject to refraction). The value of specular transmittance depends on the material's Transparency setting. Usually, when a material has high transmittance, it has low reflectance, and vice-versa. |
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• Sound
Choose from over 400 sound cabinets to complete your design. EAW®, EV® X-Series, JBL VerTec®, Apogee®, MSL, Myers and Turbosound® are only a few of the sound cabinets that are included with the program. Or stop by a manufacturer’s website and download their blocks to use in LD Assistant. |
LD Assistant's
Partial Tool Set |
| • Polygon |
| • Rectangle |
| • Arc |
| • Circle |
| • Revision Cloud |
| • Spline |
| • Ellipse |
| • Ellipse Arc |
| • Insert |
| • Make Block |
| • Point |
| • Hatch |
| • Gradient |
| • Region |
| • Table |
| • Text |
| • Ray |
| • Multiline |
| • 3D Polyline |
| • Boundary |
| • Wipeout |
| • Donut |
| • Properties |
| • Change by Layers |
| • Annotative Object Scale |
... and a other few hundred tools our competitors don't want you to know we have! |
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