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• The Shift to 3D
  Source: Desktop Engineering,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Sara Ferris, Date: 2007-04-01

• Building Your Workplace Action Plan
  Source: Cadalyst,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Robert Green, Date: 2007-04-01
• Survival Guide Chapter 05: Understanding the Process
  Source: Eat Your CAD,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Nigel Davies, Date: 2007-04-01
• Who Not to Hire/Where Not to Work
  Source: AUGI,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Mark W. Kiker, Date: 2007-04-01

• The Benchmark
  Source: MCAD Online,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Robert Jamieson, Date: 2007-04-01
• Dell Precision 490 Workstation: Big Performance, Smaller Footprint
  Source: CADdigest.com,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: David Cohn, Date: 2007-04-01
• The Flextop Evolution - Can Your CAD Workstation Really be Portable?
  Source: Inventor Connections,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Laura Cooper of NextComputing, Date: 2007-04-01
• Going into Orbit!
  Source: CAD User,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com, Date: 2007-04-01
• ZPrinter 450 3D Printer
  Source: prototype,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Al Dean, Date: 2007-04-01

• Agile Software Back on Track
  Source: CADdigest.com,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Randall S Newton, Date: 2007-04-01
• Longer Lifecycles in Service-Oriented Empires
  Source: Cadalyst,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Kenneth Wong, Date: 2007-04-01
• PLM Roundtable, Part 2
  Source: Desktop Engineering,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Nancy Rouse-Talley, Date: 2007-04-01

• An Australian AutoCAD Hip Tip!
  Source: Lynn Allen`s Blog,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Lynn Allen, Date: 2007-03-30

• How to migrate your custom menus, toolbars and shortcuts to AutoCAD 2005?
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• Quick selection of similar objects.
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• How to find who (and since when) has my drawing open?
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• How to deselect grips using a toolbar button?
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• Closing All Open AutoCAD Documents from a .NET Application
  Source: Through the Interface,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Kean Walmsley, Date: 2007-03-31
• Getting the List of .NET-defined Commands in AutoCAD
  Source: Through the Interface,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Kean Walmsley, Date: 2007-03-31
• Showing AutoCAD`s Hatch Dialog from a .NET Application
  Source: Through the Interface,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Kean Walmsley, Date: 2007-03-31

• Boxing Your Text
  Source: CAD-e-Corner,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Ward Romberger, Date: 2007-03-31

• To Whom do You Attribute That Information?
  Source: Cadalyst,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Bill Fane, Date: 2007-03-31

• AutoLISP.10: Using Entmake Function to Add Entities to Drawing
  Source: Daily AutoCAD,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Orhan Toker, Date: 2007-03-31
• Sequential Numbering Systems
  Source: Cadalyst,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Tony Hotchkiss, Date: 2007-03-31

• A Simple AutoLISP Application for Constructing Center Lines
  Source: Daily AutoCAD,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Erhan Toker, Date: 2007-03-31

• Creating Render Material in AutoCAD -1
  Source: Daily AutoCAD,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Erhan Toker, Date: 2007-03-31
• Creating Render Material in AutoCAD - 2
  Source: Daily AutoCAD,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Erhan Toker, Date: 2007-03-31
• Creating Render Material in AutoCAD - 3: Mapping
  Source: Daily AutoCAD,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Erhan Toker, Date: 2007-03-31
• Creating Render Materials in AutoCAD - 4: Lights
  Source: Daily AutoCAD,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Erhan Toker, Date: 2007-03-31

• How to find straight time amount spent on a drawing?
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• How Old Can You Go with AutoCAD?
  Source: Beth`s CAD Blog,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Beth Powell, Date: 2007-03-31

• Fields do not have gray background on one PC.
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• Advanced Solid Modeling in AutoCAD 2007: LOFT
  Source: Daily AutoCAD,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Erhan Toker, Date: 2007-03-30

• Vista and AutoCAD 2007: A Contentious Combo
  Source: Cadalyst,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Kenneth Wong, Date: 2007-03-31

• Align a Block to Other Objects (2006 and Later)
  Source: Ellen Finkelstein.com,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Ellen Finkelstein, Date: 2007-03-30

• QuickCUI Introduced in AutoCAD 2008
  Source: JTB World,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com, Date: 2007-03-30

• AutoCAD 2008: New Invert Xclip Command Option
  Source: Between the Lines,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Shaan Hurley, Date: 2007-03-30

• Viewing 3D Block Definitions in AutoCAD 2008
  Source: AutoCAD Insider,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Heidi Hewett, Date: 2007-03-30

• AutoCAD 2008 Graphics Hardware
  Source: AutoCAD Insider,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Heidi Hewett, Date: 2007-03-30
• AutoCAD 2008 - Will My Programs Work?
  Source: CAD Panacea,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com, Date: 2007-03-30
• Good Question: AutoCAD 2008 System Requirements
  Source: AutoCAD Insider,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Heidi Hewett, Date: 2007-03-30

• Civil 3D - Translating Data with Civil 3D, Part 3
  Source: Cadalyst,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Mike Choquette, Date: 2007-03-31

• The Civil Side: Training Options
  Source: AUGI,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: Christian Barrett, Date: 2007-03-31

• How to draw an arc with a given radius and length?
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• Opening Parts and Assemblies from IDW Sheet
  Source: i.get.it,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com,  Author: Steve Slack, Date: 2007-04-02

• How to retrieve author, project name, etc. of an Inventor file outside of
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• Capturing Lists in Buzzsaw
  Source: Paper Cuts,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com, Date: 2007-04-01

• Another Formula Property Override Example
  Source: The Architect`s Desktop,  Submitted by: CADDigest.com,  Author: David Koch, Date: 2007-03-30

• How to draw frame around a text entity?
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02
• How to write a arc-aligned text?
  Source: CADForum.cz,  Submitted by: 3DCADResources.com, Date: 2007-04-02

• The BORROWLICENSE and RETURNLICENSE commands gi