Archive for February 2009
LD Assistant uses Autodesk’s AutoCAD DWG file format
When working with AutoCAD drawings, does your program act more like a turkey?
LD Assistant uses Autodesk’s AutoCAD DWG file format. DWG is the native format for AutoCAD software and AutoCAD-based products. Autodesk owns, develops, and iterates the DWG file format.
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The DWG format changes every few years, as Autodesk adds new features to AutoCAD.
Several reverse engineered software libraries exist that simulate the DWG file format with various levels of success in providing DWG read and write capabilities.
With eight million users and over a billion AutoCAD DWG files in existence, no wonder other CAD software companies want you to believe that they can import and export to DWG without any problems!
Powered by Autodesk Technology means LD Assistant is the ONLY CAD program that’s 100% AutoCAD DWG.
No Other Program in our industry can make that claim.
ETC ACN LD Assistant Beta Testers Needed
Electronic Theatre Controls’ ACN console connection with LD Assistant PL 08
Do you have an ETC Console with ACN? Do you have LD Assistant PL 08?
We’re looking for LD Assistant users that have an ETC console to test the new LD Assistant’s ETC Connect Plug ‘n’ Play console function. Contact us at 708 499 0107 for more infomation.
News
• Intel moves up rollout of new chips – Chipmaker is stepping up the introduction of new silicon, moving up the release of processors expected in 2010 to this year. By Brooke Crothers in Nanotech – The Circuits Blog
LD Assistant 3-Day Training – Feb. 18-20, Austin, TX
Join ETCP Recognized Trainer Richard Cadena for a 3-day training session on how to use LD Assistant. This intimate class will cover building a lighting plot from scratch, modeling in 3D, applying materials, creating renderings, patching instruments, and programming with visualization. This is your chance to enhance your design and documentation skills using LD Assistant. Classes will be held in Austin, Texas from 9:00am to 5:00pm on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 18-20. The fee for the 3-day course is $600. To register, please call 512-280-0384 or fax your registration information to 512-292-0163.
About the trainer: Richard Cadena is an ETCP Recognized Trainer and an ETCP Entertainment Electrician. He is the author of “Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician,” “Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light,” “Lighting Design for Modern Houses of Worship,” and “ Focus on Lighting Technology.” As a freelance lighting designer/consultant he has designed many lighting systems using LD Assistant and has toured as a lighting designer/director. He is also the current editor of PLSN magazine.
