LD Assistant Press Room

LD Assistant NOW supports Streaming ACN Multiple Source and Channel Priority. Both Send and Receive Streaming ACN are included in the new service pack SP2 that’s FREE to all LD Assistant 08 users.

Industry News

• Autodesk Software Now Free to All (Unemployed) In these uncertain economic times, many companies have had to let good people go.  If you were one of them, you might be wondering how to advance your career in this challenging global job market. • Free Software License*: Any student license of AutoCAD®, Revit® Architecture, Autodesk® Inventor® Professional, and/or AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software .• Free Online Training: On-demand training available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week • Reduced-Cost Classroom Training:  Many Autodesk Authorized Value Added Resellers and Autodesk Training Center (ATC®) partners are offering classroom  training at their training facilities for free or for a significantly reduced fee.  (Offerings will vary, please check with your local reseller or ATC to get details) • Certification: Certification preparation and exams available at discounted rates.

• Autodesk Appoints Mark Hawkins as CFO – Hawkins comes to Autodesk from Logitech International where he has been CFO and senior vice president of finance and IT since 2006. At Logitech, Hawkins led the company’s financial operations, investor relations, and the worldwide IT team supporting Logitech’s business units and sales and marketing operations.

• NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS Available for Graphics Workstation – This new technology delivers a faster, more efficient workflow to maximize productivity and lower the total cost of ownership for professionals in markets such as: digital content creation, sciences, manufacturing, and oil and gas.

• AutoCAD for the Mac – Autodesk indicated that the world’s largest CAD software company is looking for new markets into which to expand its sales of CAD software. Click here to take the online survey.

• Vista vs. XP: Windows On the Mat – initial shortcomings of Vista may have been overcome, advantages of Vista could make it OS of choice for future, David Cohn, Desktop Engineering,

• Paul Wonsek uses AutoCAD & LD Assistant at NAB SHOW
Quick and Easy 3D Scenery and Lighting Production Designs
Speaker Paul Wonsek designed a small three-person broadcast news set from scratch in Sketchup, quickly creating a design idea to communicate concepts to the production team. The initial design was exported to Autocad and LD Assistant 08, providing a platform to control the actual lighting for different cueing situations.  Drawings and lighting plots were created from the initial design concept.  Other finished 3D design projects created with the same methods employed in this seminar were included from professional theatre, television and architectural venues.

From the LAB & It’s Free

Project Draw is a new feature-rich web-based vector drawing application Use it to create simple floor plans, electronic-circuit diagrams, network diagrams.Click here it’s FREE to use

Project Showroom Project Showroom is a 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. Try it! It’s free to anyone.

Autodesk Design Review Accelerate your projects with the integrated way to review, mark up, measure, and track changes to 2D and 3D models, and drawings.Free Download click here

Autodesk Freewheel Free web service to view and share 2D and 3D designs—all without the need to install any software.Free Downlaod click here

Project Dragonfly is ideal for anyone who’s ever wanted an easy, intuitive floor planning tool to dream, organize, and envision. click here

Featured Lighting Designer - G. B. Stephens

G. B. Stephens Associate Professor of Design and Manager of the School of Theatre and Dance CADArts Center at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. G. B. was kind enough to let us show off one of his designs.Click here to see his DANCE-F10-1 Plot