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Feature per Month program
This month's new feature is DWG/DXF Scaling: this adds support
for the definition of 'units' when loading or saving DWG and DXF files.
 This is a section from the AutoCAD help file talking about units in DWG files:
Each unit on the screen represents whatever you want it to be: an inch, a
millimetre, a kilometre. Therefore, if you are drawing a motor part, one unit
might equal a millimetre. If you are drawing a map, one unit might equal one
kilometre.
This month's feature adds a dialog to the file Open and file Save As processes.
Using this dialog you can set the measurement of the unit in the DWG or DXF file
you are opening or saving. This means that you no longer have to
resize drawings to get the right scale
when converting to or from DWG or DXF.
Important Note: the Feature per Month program is
available only to current subscribers of Stardraw Audio, Stardraw AV
and Stardraw Lighting 2D. If the machine you're currently working with has its
Stardraw dongle in place, follow the link to
check your subscription status.
To renew a lapsed subscription, catch up on symbols updates and
qualify for the Feature per Month program please contact your
local Stardraw representative or e-mail sales@stardraw.com
As promised, new features will be added to Stardraw every month,
prioritised, wherever possible, by what you want. As far as we
know, Stardraw is the only application that can respond so quickly
to your requests. Please let us know what new features you
want by filling out our User Survey
2001 - The Year in Review
We'd like to extend our best wishes for the holiday season to all
of our friends and hope that the new year is profitable for you all.
2001 has been an extraordinary year for Stardraw: one that has seen
unprecedented growth in spite of traumatic world events and much
talk of impending recession. By looking back, we want to thank
you for making all of our achievements over the last twelve months
possible, and we invite you, as always, to help us improve the
services we offer through your suggestions. 2001 was great,
here's looking forward to 2002.
Last year saw very significant changes for Stardraw as a company:
overall staffing almost quadrupled and July saw the acquisition of
R&S Solutions in the USA, now Stardraw Inc. It's great now to
have Randy Green and his team on-board under the Stardraw banner,
bringing with them many years of experience and committed service to
their customers across the American continents. The
establishment of our New York office means dedicated pre- and
post-sales support for US customers, and a better shopping
experience for the UK team when in the states!
Internationally we were pleased to welcome David Morrison and Rob
Robinson as respective heads of the sales and marketing teams
worldwide. Their experience of more than thirty years in
audio-visual and computing sectors has already lead to great
results, and they promise more to come in 2002. We also
welcomed new recruits to the development and administrative
departments in the UK and US, and established our Premier
Partnership and Reseller programs internationally. With
respect to this we want to mention and thank our partners around the
world: Audio Network, Cést Trading, Coemar de Sisti, ESL, Holland
Audio Import, Intersonic, Link, Prevost and Soundata.
In 2001 we did more travelling than ever before and you may have
seen us at any of 17 international trade shows - a new record. A
crowning moment for the year came in December with a prestigious
Eddy award for technological achievement. This was won by the
Heritage Theatre Control software, developed by Stardraw for Midas
and we are very proud that such new technology has been so quickly
recognised.
The pace of corporate development has been matched by advances
across our full range of products, both in terms of improved
features and new symbols. In May we introduced our unique
Feature per Month program and this has added many major new tools
including:
- Excel Reporting - powerful spreadsheet utilities
- Autosave - protecting your work
- Convert to Rack - automatically generate racks from schematics
- Paste Repeat - rectangular arrays in a single action
- Cable Scheduling - connection data
- Error Reporting - trap and report internal or external errors
for enhanced stability
- Enhanced Library List - drag and drop symbols creation
- DWG/DXF Scaling - ensure correct sizing when importing and
exporting
All these features are available to current subscribers at no
extra cost. In addition to these program features we have
updated the Stardraw website to allow automatic checking for the
latest version of any program, dongle checking, improved library
details and enhanced online ordering.
November saw the launch of Stardraw Lighting 2D, our newest
application which gives all the advantages of subscription-based
feature and symbol delivery to users in the lighting industry.
We have exceeded all expectations for symbols delivery by adding,
in 2001 alone, 45 new manufacturer libraries and more than 15,000 new symbols.
Every month 100 new audio products have been added and in July, the
number of video products added per month was increased from 150 to
250 at no extra cost. Stardraw Lighting 2D was launched with
8,000 symbols and a pledge to add 50 products per month so that now,
across the range of Stardraw applications, users now have access to
well over 30,000 high quality symbols.
So, it's been a busy year, and one that will go down as our best
yet. But none of it could have been done without the support
of our customers and we thank you all. Our pledge is to
continue to develop and deliver the very best in software.
Watch this space as there are already new and exciting developments
in the pipeline for 2002.
With warmest regards,
David Snipp
Managing Director
Stardraw.com Ltd
Stardraw/Midas Conquer with EDDY
The Heritage Theatre software, developed by
Stardraw for Midas, was one of just five outstanding new products to
be singled out for an EDDY award for major technical advancement in
the field of professional audio.
David Snipp, Managing Director of Stardraw,
described the system. “The Heritage Theatre software sits on top of the
Stardraw platform and enables offline editing of any scenes and settings
for the Heritage 1000 console. For this system we use MIDI and RS232 to
communicate with the desk, but the Stardraw engine is a totally
flexible, componentised, fully customisable platform – it can
communicate with any other hardware or software using any protocol.”
Snipp continued “We provided Midas with an SDK
[software development kit – ed.] which can be used by any manufacturer
to develop add-ins for their specific products. This architecture is
very powerful and offers a cost-effective solution for manufacturers
developing control applications because they don't have to touch the
engine: they simply write the add-in for their product (or have us do it
for them) and all the hard work is done by the Stardraw engine. In
practice it means that Midas now have an award-winning application
produced at a fraction of the expense of traditional development. We're
delighted for them.”
The same system is used throughout the Klark Teknik
Group for all their software-controlled products.
When asked to comment on the Eddy award, MD of
Midas, Bob Doyle, commented, “This is a milestone award for Midas and
the Heritage Theatre software under Stardraw. They say software is
never finished and it can be difficult for judges to make an award. In
this case the Stardraw team worked very hard in conjunction with Midas
to deliver the system on time and I hope everyone has as much fun using
it as we did developing it.”
The EDDY was presented in New York on December 7th
2001.
December Symbols Updates for Stardraw Audio
This month's
Stardraw Audio Update includes:
Download it now!
December Symbols Updates for Stardraw AV
In addition to all of the Stardraw Audio updates, the
Stardraw AV Update includes:
Download it now!
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