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FREE eBOOK for Migrating Board Drafting and Hand Sketch Designs to CAD

Are you an engineer, draftsman, architect, landscape artist, surveryor,sheet metal wood or plastics designer that does all drawings using a t-square and triangle? Are you thinking about using CAD but worried about the cost involved? CADDIT is happy to release a new, complete free eBook entitled "CADDIT Guide: From Board Drafting and Hand Sketch Designs to CAD" to answer these questions and more. Even if you are a CAD designer with several years experience, the reference information given in this free publication is well worth having. This free eBook is available now from http://www.caddit.net/auto-cad/AutoCAD.php and discussion is offered on the CADDIT forum .

This eBook includes the first section of a CAD tutorial that demonstrates opening and editing AutoCAD files without AutoCAD software, using progeCAD Professional CAD software. More information about progeCAD is at CADDIT’s Store

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progeCAD Help Darfur with Charityware

progeCAD Smart!, the free version of the popular DWG compatible CAD software, is dedicated to a fundraising initiative in favour of the Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres).

We believe that ethic values must occupy an important place in the world of business. It is important to use any channel available to draw attention of the people to grave problems of the contemporary society, provoked as well by contradictions of the capitalist society.

The purpose of this initiative is to use the channel of free CAD users to involve them in the humanitarian activity. ( The initiative is aimed at using the channel of free CAD users to involve them in the humanitarian activity.)

progeSOFT has already realized a similar venture with its software progeCAD LT 2006. That time the software house managed to collect 10.000 dollars for the victims of the Tsunami of 2005.

All of the progeCAD Smart! Users can use for free a full and powerful CAD software and according to their will they could contribute to this humanitarian campaign.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs one of its largest humanitarian relief operation in Sudan’s western Darfur region, with 120 international staff and more than 1,800 Sudanese staff working throughout an area the size of France.

Further information on the MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres) in the Sudan: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/sudan.cfm

Further information on progeCAD Smart! : http://www.progesoft.com/smart

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progeSOFT chooses the LifeGate’s clean energy

Como, 18 April 2008, progeSOFT, leader in low cost CAD solutions, has jointed to the LifeGate®’s Renewable Energy, choosing to consume in its establishment a 100% renewable energy. The choice to pass to the renewable sources represents for progeSOFT a considerable engagement in favour of environmental protection and a sincere  wish  to make their own activities less harmful for the ecological system. 

Till now about 90 percent of all the electric energy produced in the world  derives from the conventional sources of energy (oil, coal, gas…). These substances are not only the main source of atmospheric pollution but also sooner or later they tend to exhaust their deposits. 

progeSOFT will avoid  with the LifeGate® Renewable Energy the emission of 18.6 tons of CO2 per year and the combustion of 56 barrels of oil. 

"It is an honor for progeSOFT to participate in the LifeGate® project", declared Dino Spatafora, sales director for Italy, "in our modest position we should assume a duty of improving our habits of energy consumption because the renewable sources do not exhaust themselves and have a natural characteristic of an eternal renewal." 

progeSOFT (www.progesoft.it): 
progeSOFT, a software house, that has been specializing in the development and distribution of the CAD (Computer Aided Design) software for more than 20 years. It’s a founding member of the ITC (IntelliCAD Technology Consortium) and it enters in the ITC executive committee. 

LifeGate (www.lifegate.it): 
LifeGate, a platform, network and advisor for sustainable development, promotes a new lifestyle and an economic model “people planet profit”. The LifeGate’s division on renewable energy is an only Italian exclusive supplier of clean energy, recognized by the Authority.

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рrogeSOFT has localized progeCAD 2008 Professional for Russia!

Cоmо, Italy, March 31, 2008 – today рrogeSOFT announced the release of the progeCAD Russian version. Now progeCAD 2008 Professional is also available in the Russian language!

progeCAD is a generic 2D/3D CAD with a DWG native format. The software is unique due to its compatibility with AutoCAD and supports AutoCAD files from the version 2.5 to 2008. ProgeCAD has similar look and feel with AutoCAD, but costs only the tenth part of the popular CAD software. And now the progeCAD software has been localized for Russia!

Beside the traditional features available in AutoCAD LT, progeCAD users get a number of remarkable functions belonging exclusively to the software and directed to provide its greater efficiency. From now on these feutures can be appreciated by the Russian users in their own language! Among these exclusive progeCAD features: an opportunity to use the programming languages VB, VBA, C ++ and Lisp, PDF and JPG printing, PDF to DWG convert, visualization and editing of Acis Solids, an ALE module to insert graphic symbols in the drawings, counting over 10.000 electrical, mechanical and interior blocks, O2C export and many others.

It is possible to download a fully functional  30-day trial version of the Russian progeCAD 2008 Professional on the Russian page of the manufacturer’s website: www.progesoft.com/rus_index.html.


"For progeSOFT the year 2007 was marked by its entering onto the Russian market. In 2008 the company has taken a decisive step forward approaching the Russian CAD user. Now Russian users can estimate the progeCAD software at its true worth in their native language as well ", has commented Damiano Croci, progeSOFT overseas sales director.


About рrogeSOFT 

рrogeSOFT, Como, Italy has been specializing in CAD for over 20 years. The company is a founding member of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium Board of Directors. The progeCAD software is used successfully in Europe both by personal users and large corporations such as PIRELLI, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, ABB Group etc.

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progeCAD Smart! the free CAD forum has fallen victim to hackers.

25 March 2008 morning the website usual content of the smart! forum (http://support.progesoft.com/smart)  was replaced by an image claiming the action to be carried out by the Keravnos group.

The hacked material was quickly removed from the site, that meant the visitors managed to access the forum once again

progeCAD 2008 Smart!, powered by the most recent IntelliCAD engine, is derived directly from the professional versions of progeCAD, and maintains all the base functionality of its outstanding parents for free.
Not only progeCAD 2008 Smart! is free, but it is also related to a charitable initiative in favour of Doctors Without Borders for the Darfur.

"Who could be interested in attacking a website promoting free software and linked to charity initiatives?
I hope it is a problem of an error in estimation made by that unknown group presuming themselves ‘Hacker’.
We also know many prankster hackers and computer vandals who used software tools and regularly probed the defences of websites to see if they suffer well-known vulnerabilities. This experience will help us to improve security " said Damiano Croci, Smart! responsible for progeSOFT

progeSOFT website is back and intact again! Normal services are resumed!