All levels of Alibre Design software and software maintenance have been reduced in price, positioning Alibre products as the extreme value leader in the design and manufacturing industries. The product levels, pricing, and optional software maintenance prices are:

Alibre Design Standard – $97 (software), $97 (1 year support and updates) Includes parametric 3D design (parts and assemblies), 2D drafting, import/export options for native CAD formats and neutral formats, and 3D PDF creation.

Alibre Design Professional – $497 (software), $147 (1 year support and updates)Adds sheet metal design module, push/pull editing, standard part libraries, design configurations, photorealistic rendering, and single part FEA analysis.

Alibre Design Expert – $997 (software), $197 (1 year support and updates) Adds Windows-integrated data/product management solution, integrated physics-based motion analysis, an integrated CAM solution, and Machinist Toolbox, a shop utility offering features such as unit conversion, speeds and feeds, trig calculations, and reference materials.

The new price points position Alibre products to enter new markets – primarily the individual and home user – while still providing the professional grade tools higher end users expect. The DIY phenomenon, as covered by many publications such as Wired, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, presents a huge opportunity for vendors willing to cater to lower price points. People are designing things for themselves, either as products or as side projects, and benefit from professional design tools. It’s been the case in the past that they simply could not afford them.

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Alibre has granted authorization to CADDIT Australia to offer the latest version of Alibre Design version 12 with at least AUD$1200 saving (84%) for these last few weeks of 2009. Why are we posting this to our blog? 1.This is not an Alibre 11 sale. This sale applies to the newly released Alibre Design version 12, including the features discussed earlier on our blog HERE. 2.It’s a near give-away. Even if a company already uses another 3D CAD/CAM system, Alibre Design easily supplements as a stand-alone sub-assembly designer, detail drawing workstation or even just a STEP or DWG viewer.

Pricing for Alibre Design from CADDIT Australia until 12AM 1 January 2010 EST:
Alibre Design Standard: 239.84+GST
Alibre Design Standard: 859.00+GST
Alibre Design Standard: 1199.00+GST

A full version of Alibre Design can be downloaded HERE. If the user registers our download version using a valid address in Australia, you can buy Alibre software online HERE at this sale price until 1 January 2010 12 AM EST.

There are also some discounts offered on Alibre maintenance and upgrades HERE.

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• CATIA V4 Import for SolidWorks reads .model, .exp and
  .session files from CATIA version 4.1.9 to 4.2.4.

• CATIA V5
  Import for SolidWorks read .CATPart, .CATProduct and .cgr files
  from CATIA V5 R2 to R19.

I get the feeling that it's head office in France that doesn't want SolidWorks doing the importing from its big iron Catia software.

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As digitizing tablets go, it is small, but it works with the included stylus as well as multi-touch finger presses and swishes. I dunno if the multi-touch works with SpaceClaim.

Engaget notes that while stylus-use suffers from the absolute positioning native to tablets (rather than the relative positioning with which mouse users are familiar), you can switch it to mouse mode.

Engadget's review.

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Release 9 running on an 6MHz NEC 286 AT clone and MS-DOS. He enters the plot command, and we briefly see his HP DraftPro plotter at work — which he calls "the money machine."

http://www.youtube.com/user/AutoCad9in1987

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…gestural interfaces, which would, for example, allow computer users to drag windows around a screen simply by pointing at them and moving their fingers, or to rotate a virtual object through three dimensions with a flick of the wrist. 

Gestures would certainly solve one problems created by touch screens (greasy glass) but not the other one, tired arms.

Photos and more info in MIT News: Computing with a wave of the hand.

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It's not Ansys itself who is being investigated, but deal advisers and traders who may have shared confidential information to profit from the takeovers.

The investigations are part of an effort to better understand how people meet and communicate with one another — and swap information — among banks and Wall Street trading floors.

People who have seen the subpoenas say hedge-fund executives are being asked to hand over appointment books and business-contact lists, in addition to phone and email records.

Source.

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Q4 revenues were $757.3 million, down 17% from a year ago. We'll be listening in to their quarterly conference call and'll note anything of interest.

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It applies to any program where a portion is downloaded, and then you enter registration-license information, which is merged into the rest of the program that is then downloaded.

See guys? If you were open source, you wouldn't be paying lawyers their Christmas presents. 

Source.

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