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jbig2codec – A Library for Decoding JBIG2 Images
At Scan2CAD, one of our largest ongoing tasks is to constantly support the ever-increasing raster and vector image formats that any user could come across. PDF files are particularly troublesome because the ‘market’ is full fo thousands of different PDF encoding…
Introducing: Scan2CAD Automate – A Powerful API for CAD File Conversion
Today, we are very excited to announce the formal release of ‘Scan2CAD Automate‘. Scan2CAD Automate offers gives you the power to automate any feature of Scan2CAD with a simple, extendable Python API. We’re excited about how this new feature can bring Scan2CAD’s market-leading…
Sunsetting Scan2CAD’s Legacy Licensing
From April 01, 2021 we will drop support for a licensing method used by some legacy versions of Scan2CAD (v8 and V9 only). We wanted to explain why we think it’s best to drop support and how we will make the…
Matterport Integrates With BIM 360, Autodesk CEO Joins Box Board of Directors, Panasonic Uses Generative Design For Mould Cooling Channels – Coffee Break News
It is the start of yet another month! But before we fully say goodbye to the previous month, it is time to take a look at some of the biggest and most interesting happenings in the worlds of CAD, engineering, technology,…
PTC’s Vuforia Spatial Toolbox For Faster Robotics Interface Development, MSC Changes Business Model Due To Pandemic, Dassault Forecasts Lower Revenue – Coffee Break News
A new month is upon us once again! But before we get too busy with the new month’s challenges, it is time for Scan2CAD’s Coffee Break News featuring the past month’s biggest news items from the worlds of CAD, design, engineering…
Stay Safe, Stay Productive, Stay Kind
COVID-19 will affect you no matter your geography, occupation or age. We are all in this together. As a team we are working on the mantra to; stay safe, stay productive and stay kind. There are many long press releases from companies…
Great Exhibition at Home Launched for Students, BLOX Builds Pre-Fabricated Hospitals in the US, AI Being Used to Fight COVID-19 – Coffee Break News
Another month is upon us yet again, but before we face the challenges of this new month, we are going to look back at some of the most important happenings of the past weeks in the worlds of CAD, engineering, and…
Dassault and Xometry Team Up For Parts Production, AR Leveling Up Manufacturing Productivity – Coffee Break News
It is time once again for our monthly news roundup on various topics interesting to Scan2CAD members. In this edition of Coffee Break News, we put the spotlight on several happenings and trends that were quite big in the worlds of…
Autodesk CEO Bats For Better Use of Technology, Vectorworks Used For Artistic Design – Coffee Break News
A new month is upon us once again, and with this comes another edition of Scan2CAD’s Coffee Break News. This month’s round-up of important news and information will surely pique your interest and give you an insight into what is going…
Getting Back on Track for 2030 Sustainable Development, IronCAD Launches Design Collaboration Suite 2020 – Coffee Break News
A new month is upon us once again, but before we all get back to the usual hustle and bustle, it is time for our monthly news round-up of the latest goings-on in the CAD, engineering, design, architecture, and technology industries….
Modern Architecture Reshaping Rwanda, Holographic Beam Shaping in Additive Manufacturing – Coffee Break News
Yet another month has come and gone, and we are also at the tail end of another eventful year. Because it is also the beginning of a new month, it is time for another edition of our monthly news round-up of…
PTC Acquires OnShape – Coffee Break News
How is your month going so far, everyone? Yet another month has gone by so fast. But before we get into all the busyness of the new month, it is time once again for our monthly news round-up of current events…
AutoDesk and ANSYS Announce Partnership, UK and Korea Collaborate on Space Battery Design – Coffee Break News
The colors of the leaves are changing, and there is a different chill in the air as September ends and we welcome autumn. It is also time for our monthly roundup of the most newsworthy notes in the worlds of CAD,…
Innovating in Cooling Buildings, HP’s Reverb VR for CAD & More – Coffee Break News
It is that time once again when we round up the most noteworthy news notes in the worlds of CAD, architecture, engineering, design, construction, and more. August was quite a month with so many things happening in different industries, so this…
Autodesk goes big on prefab buildings, AMD releases new GPU for AEC – Coffee Break News
The month of July is coming to close, Scan2CAD friends. In this edition of Coffee Break News, we will update you on a lot of new and exciting things happening in the worlds of engineering, design, technology, and CAD. Stories to…
Coffee Break News: DraftSight Stops Free Offering, The Demand for CNC Grows & Eco-Building Treehouses
The month of June has come and gone. Can you believe we are already halfway through the year? It seems like it was only yesterday when we were ushering in 2019. Time really flies by so fast, and so do the…
Coffee Break News: Jeff Bezos’ Lunar Lander, Citroen’s 19_19 Concept Car, Big Ideas for Small Spaces & More
It is that time once again for us to do a quick round-up of what’s happening in the worlds of engineering, design, technology, and the CAD industry. There’s a lot of exciting news for us to cover in this edition of…
Coffee Break News: The Best Buildings of 2019, Building for Communities, Box for AutoCAD & More
Just like that, April has come and gone by. Hopefully, you are staying productive and accomplishing your goals, but also finding time to relax and enjoy some much-needed R&R. So much has happened in the last month in the areas of…
Coffee Break News: Tesla Model Y, Nvidia’s Turing GPUs for CAD & more
My, how time flies! This is already the third roundup of all things design and engineering for this year, and we have a lot to share with you from the stories we followed this March. From the design announcement of the…