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MEDUSA4 – Focus on Design Automation

Issue # 8 – 06/08/2008

Welcome to issue 8 of New Dimensions

This newsletter features the latest news from CAD Schroer Group (CSG), the global engineering solutions provider. Read all about upcoming events and product releases, the latest downloads and customer case studies, information on consultancy services, and technical tips & tricks to help with your daily design challenges.

In this edition


	Software Focus: What’s New in MEDUSA4 Version 3.1?
	Customer Focus: CU Phosco & MEDUSA4: Increasing the Speed of Light
	Time Limited Offers: Big savings on M4 + MEDInfo™ and MEDParts™
	Technical Spotlight: NEW! MPDS4 MECHANICAL HANDLING
	FREE Download: Thumbnail Preview of MEDUSA4 Sheets
	Industry Events: CAD Schroer at the PPMA 2008 in the UK
	Q&A: Your Design Questions Answered

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	Software Focus	What’s New in MEDUSA4 Version 3.1? Hot off the press, version 3.1 of the MEDUSA4 product suite offers exciting new functionality and some major enhancements. From a whole new discipline for MPDS4 with the MECHANICAL HANDLING™ module and a new 3D Component Designer for MPDS4, to the new SMART Draw tool in MEDUSA4 ADVANCED, enhanced 3D import options in the 3D interface package and full conversion of multi paper space AutoCAD® drawings with CADConvert…isn’t it time you had a closer look? For a list of the main highlights, click here
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	Customer Focus	CU Phosco and MEDUSA4: Increasing the Speed of Light “Over its long history, CU Phosco Lighting has focused on producing extremely reliable products, incorporating quality, longevity and cutting edge technology. MEDUSA has been part of our success since the mid 1980s, playing a crucial role in thousands of civic and industrial projects. The software has grown with our demands and those of our customers. Its powerful tools for colour raster editing, high quality DWG import and quick and easy drafting and 3D help us cut lead times and reduce pre-sales overheads...” Read the CU Phosco Case Study
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	Time Limited Offers	MEDUSA4 Time Limited Offers – Must End September 30, 2008 Save € 1,140 (£ 790) on MEDUSA4 DRAFTING PLUS + MEDInfo™ - Drafting power with global document and information management Save 45% on MEDParts™ - Integrated MEDUSA4™ CAD parts library for speed, consistency and standards compliance Click here for full details.
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	Technical Spotlight	NEW! MPDS4 MECHANICAL HANDLING™ A New Discipline for Intelligence in Interconnected Components Introducing the ideal companion for MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT (the module for fast 2D conceptual design and easy 3D visualisation of large installations): MPDS4 MECHANICAL HANDLING is a new discipline for placing intelligent interconnected components. From conveyor belts to cranes to fork lift trucks, installation designers can now easily select, lay out, configure, visualise and add intelligence to process machinery in their plant. To find out more, click here
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	FREE Download	FREE Windows Explorer Thumbnail Preview of MEDUSA4 Sheets Window Explorer’s popular thumbnail preview functionality is now available for MEDUSA4 drawings! The FREE software you need to take advantage of this feature is available for download on the CSG website. Download the plug-in.
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	Industry Events	Join CAD Schroer at the PPMA Show in Birmingham, UK, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2008 Introducing MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT™, the project engineering software for fast conceptual layouts and easy visualisation, developed by CAD Schroer Group (CSG), the global engineering solutions provider. It’s the fastest way from large industrial layouts to 3D visualisations - with existing 2D site plans, 3D machinery models and catalogue data. Click here to find out more and request your FREE ticket
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	Question & Answer	Q&A: Your Design Questions Answered Question: We use MPDS4 for plant design, and we’re often confronted with 2D building plans from third party systems, usually supplied as DXF data. What is the quickest and easiest way of modelling all the walls in MPDS4? Answer: The MPDS4 FACTORY LAYOUT module is ideal for this job. Adding height values to lines representing walls on imported DXF drawings will allow you to quickly auto-model them in 3D. In addition, the module allows you to create large industrial layouts, including positioning of machinery models in any 3D plane, very quickly, with auto updates between the 2D and 3D worlds. Question: During MPDS4 project work we sometimes need to model a range of completely new components. Is there a means of creating simple models inside MPDS4, and saving them to our catalogs? Answer: Yes, with the newest version (3.1) of MPDS4 CAD Schroer has released a 3D Component Designer, which allows users to quickly and easily create 3D catalog components, which can even be animated. The tool is very simple to use – a short introduction should be enough to get users working productively and save you lots of time. Question: We provide products that are customised with Chinese or Japanese characters etched into them. Currently we draw these characters free-hand in MEDUSA4. Is there a faster way to incorporate them into our designs, ready for customer review and production? Answer: No problem – MEDUSA4 offers full Unicode support from version 3.0 so your customers can e-mail you the relevant characters in a True Type font, and you can simply cut and paste the text into your MEDUSA4 sheets, then alter its height and shear (i.e. italicising) as desired. This should save you several hours of work per object, and you can send the result to your customers as a PDF, for example, and produce a DXF file for the production machines that, if they have the right software, cut the patterns. Click here for more Q&A.
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