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Rakesh Rao
Bangalore, India
Owner of Four Dimension Technologies / Coordinate Systems, Bangalore, INDIA
Interests: golf, gis / cad software mapping, geography programming - (visual) lisp bricscad - autocad travelling
Recent Activity
Bangalore, India GeoTools / CADPower 14.01 update for BricsCAD is now available on our web for download. This is compatible with 64-bit versions of BricsCAD V 13.2 released yesterday. GeoTools V 14.01 for BricsCAD CADPower V14.01 for BricsCAD Discover BricsCAD,... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India The day many BricsCAD users have been waiting for has arrived! BricsCAD V 13.2 is a major release that now has a 64-bit (X64) download, separate from its 32-bit (X86) counterpart. Support for .dwg 2013 (used by AutoCAD... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
Bangalore, India I am one of the review authors on CADDigest.com and I, along with my colleague, Sanjay Jamalpur, had the opportunity to review the latest release of the MCAD software - IronCAD 2013. The reivew was published recently on... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
Bangalore, India GeoTools & CADPower V14 released today!! The fourteenth numbered upgrade since 1999, GeoTools and CADPower V14 are now shipping and available for download on our website. The V14 upgrade of GeoTools & CADPower is FREE for all purchases... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India In one of my previous posts, I showed how you can identify (and fix) and broken COM interface in BricsCAD. I am pleased to see that Bricsys (Torsten Moses) has made this job even more easier now by... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
Bangalore, India The soon-to-come V 13.2.2 of BricsCAD is an important release for more than one reasons. While the native 64-bit installset is going to delight all users, the other important addition is support for the .dwg 2013 format. BricsCAD... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
Bangalore, India The 64-bit version of BricsCAD V13 (X64) is now in beta and will soon be available for the general public from BricsCAD V 13.2.2 onwards. The main advantage of a native 64-bit version will be the ability to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India What's New in GeoTools V14 The new Geographic menu in GeoTools adds a number of geographic functions. GT_COORDTRAN: This provides Coordinate Conversion from one system to another, on the lines of what is possible in software like AutoCAD... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
Bangalore, India What's New in CADPower V14 CP_READEXIF: Under the Miscellaneous tools section, we added a utility to examine EXIF meta-data from images and other files and display them in your drawing or export to EXIF report files. The CADPower... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India CP_STEELWORKS A new menu category called Mechanical has been created in the CADPower V14. The first item in this section is the Indian Standard Steel Section, which allows drawing of Indian Standard Steel Angles, Channels, T-sections and more.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India GT_INSPHOTO Yet another new command in GeoTools V14 in the GeoTools->Geographic menu (GT_INSPHOTO) allows a geo-tagged photo to be attached to your CAD drawing. Geo-Tagging is a method by which geographical position info is attached to a normal... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India CP_READEXIF The CP_READEXIF (CADPower -> Miscellaneous Tools -> File Management -> View/Extract EXIF data) is a generic tool to extract all the EXIF information from files and display it on the dialog box or save it into a... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India GT_COORDTRAN GT_COORDTRAN-the geographic coordinate transformation engine, is yet another new addition in GeoTools V14. It is available under the GeoTools->Geographic menu and provides options to convert between the following coordinate systems: Lat-Longs (geographic) UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) Transverse... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India GT_DWG2KML GeoTools V14 introduces a new command called GT_DWG2KML to convert CAD data to Google KML files. For those of you new to KML files, here is a short introduction. The KML (Keyhole Markup Language) format is an... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
Bangalore, India GeoTools V14 and CADPower V14 will be releasing very soon. There are a few things different with V14. Firstly, this is a numbered major release that is not timed with the next release of AutoCAD. In other words,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India Last week, Jason Bourhill of CADConcepts, New Zealand and I had a very long conversation with Torsten Moses, spanning 5+ hours over a TeamViewer and Skype session. This is going to be a very long post about what... Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Ghent, Belgium – February 26th, 2013 – Chapoo®, provider of a cloud-based project information and collaboration platform, and Bricsys, a global provider of dwg engineering design software brought to market under the BricsCAD® brand, today announced that the upcoming point... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
-- Artisan Rendering Solution now Seamlessly Available for Trial Download and Purchase by BricsCAD Sales Partners and Customers Worldwide -- Ghent, Belgium and Sheffield, UK – January 29, 2013 – Bricsys, a global provider of dwg engineering design software brought... Continue reading
Posted Feb 22, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India Ralph Grabowski's trio of BricsCAD V13 eBooks is available now. These three books help you to Learn, Customize and Compare, equipping you with the full knowledge and resources of information to deploy BricsCAD efficiently in your organization. Learn:... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India Some of the troublesome errors encountered while using Windows is when your application depends on the Windows Component Object Model (COM) libraries and the underlying linkages are broken or the dlls go missing or corrupted for one reason... Continue reading
Posted Jan 30, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
Bangalore, India Torsten Moses of Bricsys has created some great Lisp performance evaluation programs for use in .dwg CAD platforms supporting the Lisp API interface. This Lisp Benchmark system has been developed to provide a performance test system to compare... Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India Chapoo is the new name of the new online document and data management / collaboration tool from a company that is a spinoff from Bricsys. In one of my previous posts, I answered some key questions about Chapoo.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 15, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
Bangalore, India Bricsys Announces Availability of BricsCAD V13 for Linux GHENT, Belgium and MERRIMACK, NH Jan 8, 2013 - Bricsys, a global provider of dwg engineering design software brought to market under the BricsCAD brand, announced the immediate availability of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 8, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India Starting with the V 13.12 update released today, it is now possible to purchase a license for each category of GeoTools or CADPower tools individually. Category-based licensing allows you to selectively pay for only the tools categories you... Continue reading
Posted Jan 6, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD
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Bangalore, India We are pleased to state that renowned CAD journalist, author and industry expert Ralph Grabowski has reviewed our CADPower software on www.caddigest.com Read the full review here: Four Dimension Technologies and Coordinate Systems thank Mr. Grabowski for the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2013 at Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD