This page contains the latest press information to come from InfoComm 2011. For any release click on the icon to download the release in MS Word format.

Press Releases:

• Stardraw.com announces Stardraw Design 7 at InfoComm 2011
• Stardraw Libraries Pass 600 Manufacturer Milestone
• Stardraw Delivers Diverse Device Drivers
• Further integration with IT devices for Stardraw Control

Stardraw.com announces Stardraw Design 7 at InfoComm 2011

Industry-leading software provider Stardraw.com has selected InfoComm 2011 as the platform to unveil Stardraw Design 7 — their all-new system design/documentation tool.

The application is Stardraw.com's seventh-generation software solution for systems integrators. Offering a holistic approach to system design and documentation, Stardraw Design 7 is a modular package which will enable integrators to custom configure the software to suit their particular specifications and budget.

Using an entirely new codebase, Stardraw Design 7 accesses a single project- and product-centric database which is accessible via tried and trusted task-oriented drawing environments such as 'Block Schematics' and 'Rack Layouts' as well as a new, grid-based product selector. A key advantage of this approach is that each environment is simply a 'view' of the central project database that contains ALL of the data relating to your project, right down to the last nut and bolt, and a change in one environment ripples through to all of the others. Furthermore, a brand new feature in Design 7 enables you to see the products that are not being used in the current drawing. It's an extremely useful feature for keeping track of your project and for making sure that you haven't overlooked anything when building your racks, designing your system schematic etc.

Other new and improved features include fully integrated project reporting, compatibility with the latest versions of AutoCAD (R12 — 2010) and Visio as well as a built-in PDF-generator. There is also a Product Wizard — a step up from the Symbol Wizard in previous versions — which allows you to create a product with all of its associated symbols and data.

An even slicker, smoother drawing interface and powerful new tools make Stardraw Design 7 a multi-generational leap forward. Stardraw.com is inviting all interested parties to register for a public beta test in order to try out the new package for themselves. An official launch will follow later in the year once the beta feedback has been processed.

"We're very proud of this new application; our most powerful and streamlined off-the-shelf design/documentation package yet," commented Stardraw.com CEO, David Snipp. "The codebase, although new to the product family, isn't new to us. It's been fully tested by well over 25,000 users in our OEM applications, and the results have been sufficiently convincing for us to want to make it publically available in the form of Stardraw Design 7. Nevertheless, in order to be completely sure that our product responds fully to market requirements, we're initiating a public beta phase in order to give our customers the opportunity to come back to us with suggestions, observations etc. Customer feedback is the number one tool for us to improve our products and our service. We not only welcome feedback, we actively encourage it — hence the reason for the beta program. Come and register and tell us what you think!"

For further information, please visit http://www.stardraw.com

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Stardraw Libraries Pass 600 Manufacturer Milestone

Multi award-winning software provider Stardraw.com has announced a significant milestone for their Symbols Libraries, which now number over 600 manufacturers in total and a staggering 54,000 symbols.

Stardraw.com's Symbols Libraries have been under continual development since their inauguration almost two decades ago in 1992. Representing over fifty man years of work, each symbol is painstakingly drawn by in-house professional CAD draughtsmen to create the highest quality, most comprehensive libraries available anywhere. Stardraw.com guarantees no duplicates and a consistent qualitative standard throughout.

Since the very beginning, this invaluable service has been provided free of charge to manufacturers — all they have to do is provide the relevant product information in the form of 2D DWG or DXF drawing files, and Stardraw.com will do the rest. Symbols are prioritized on the basis of user requests from registered users holding a current subscription via Stardraw.com's online Symbols Request service. All that is required are the manufacturer details and the model number of the product required, and — as for the manufacturers — Stardraw.com will do the rest.

Symbol updates are published almost daily, so registered users may synchronise their libraries whenever they wish. Users with a current subscription to Stardraw Audio and Stardraw AV have access to Online Libraries so any new symbol is available to them immediately, without prior download.

"The Symbols Libraries are a core activity for us at Stardraw, and key to the intrinsic value of our Design products," noted marketing director Rob Robinson. "In addition to being the only software provider who offers such a comprehensive symbols service, we can guarantee that our libraries are the most up-to-date and relevant on the market because they are entirely user-led, hence market-driven. We do get the odd request from people who haven't entirely thought things through — a request for "ALL Sony products" springs to mind - but by and large our users are incredibly helpful and allow us to provide an excellent — and unique — service."

Further details can be seen at http://www.stardraw.com/Manufacturers/Symbols_Libraries.asp

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Stardraw Delivers Diverse Device Drivers

Software provider Stardraw.com is proud to confirm the unequivocal success of their Driver Request Forum, a free service to all registered Stardraw Control users.

Stardraw Control 2010 is the multi award-winning, software-based universal control platform designed to create custom user interfaces that can control any remotely-controlled or monitored hardware over any protocol. Its open-architecture approach enables you to employ off-the-shelf hardware as core components of your control system and extend functionality almost without limitation whilst minimizing costs.

In order to communicate with third party hardware, device drivers are required and new drivers are needed for new or previously unsupported products. Stardraw Control includes a number of tools including a Driver Wizard to help people to write their own drivers, but in situations where users don't have the time, skills or inclination to create their own, Stardraw.com offers the Driver Request Forum.

This unique service, available to all registered Stardraw Control Users, undertakes to create any custom device driver within 30 days, free of charge, regardless of its complexity.

"We introduced this service about eighteen months ago," notes Stardraw.com marketing director Rob Robinson. "I am delighted to say that since then, we have delivered every single driver that has been requested with the majority being published well within a week, let alone 30 days! The Driver Request service is clearly a win-win because our users get what they need quickly and at no additional cost, and it adds value to Stardraw Control as a product: as soon as a driver is published, it is available to all users immediately."

Further details can be seen at http://www.stardraw.com/forums/messages.aspx?forumid=9

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Further Integration with IT Devices for Stardraw Control

Software provider Stardraw.com has announced a further level of integration with IT devices for their multi award-winning control software, Stardraw Control 2010; support for System Events.

The control system can react to anything that is recognized as a System Event on the host PC, such as 'Resume from Standby', 'Virtual Memory Low', 'Email Received', 'Network Cable Unplugged', 'Logon', 'Shutdown', etc. The control software can be programmed to instigate any other action such as send an alert or perform any device function when any particular system event is detected.

"What this means is that the control system can be fully aware of the PC device that it's running on and any processes that might be running in the background," says Stardraw.com marketing director Rob Robinson. "Like so many features that have been added to Stardraw Control over the years, this functionality has been requested by users in the field. Clearly there's great interest in exploiting and fully integrating with IT infrastructure when deploying audio visual and other control systems."

For further information, please visit http://www.stardraw.com/products/stardrawcontrol

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