Monthly Archives: November 2011

NVidia Maximus

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Kyle Kondo

NVidia Maximus allows you to link up a Quadro card for graphics, and a Tesla card for data processing. This allows programs to unload intensive data processing operations off of the CPU that are better suited to the parallel nature … Continue reading →

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Civil 3D 2012 – Service Pack 1

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Neil Bondy

The much anticipated Civil 3D 2012 Service Pack 1 has been released.  You can download it from here. It’s great to have this service pack, especially since it contains all the fixes from AutoCAD 2012 Service Pack 1 and AutoCAD … Continue reading →

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AU 2011 – November 29th through December 1st

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Kyle Kondo

Autodesk University 2011 is less than two weeks away and we’re gearing up to make AU 2011 one of the best ever. Autodesk Topobase First up, we are presenting a class on the implementation of Autodesk Topobase for the City … Continue reading →

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Map 3D 2012 (Enterprise) Service Pack 1

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Kyle Kondo

Map 3D 2012 (Enterprise) Service Pack 1   The Map 3D 2012 Service Pack was recently released.  You can download it from this Autodesk link.  While investigating the update, here are a few questions you may have: Does this Service … Continue reading →

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Input Devices and AutoCAD

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Kyle Kondo

Touch Screens We are now seeing the wide scale adoption of the touch screen as an input device.  AutoCAD for Mac supports gestures when using the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad.  We even have a version of AutoCAD (WS) for … Continue reading →

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