Save the Date! ALACAD's AUGI CAD Camp Comes to Birmingham on September 30th! - Join ALACAD for a full day of training at a fraction of the usual price. Whether you work with AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, Map 3D or Inventor, you'll learn something new which will help you work smarter, not harder.

Autodesk Presents the AutoCAD® Map 3D Online Advisor - Spend a few minutes walking through our interactive online advisor. By answering some simple questions, the advisor figures out how you're working today, and lets you know if AutoCAD Map 3D is the right product for you. Get started now; click here.

ALACAD Is Excited to Announce Our 20th Anniversary! - In April 1988, Kirk Newell opened Alabama CAD/ CAM, Inc. (later to become ALACAD) with the goal of becoming the leading AutoCAD reseller in Alabama. Since that time a number of CAD/ CAM software packages and resellers have come and gone, but ALACAD has become one of the leading Autodesk Authorized Value Added Resellers and Authorized Training Centers in the Southeastern United States. We are proud of the reputation we have earned for being the most customer-oriented CAD/ CAM reseller and training center in the Southeast, and we will never forget that it is you, our customer, that has made us what we are today and we look forward to serving you for another 20 years. Thank you for your patronage.

Autodesk Announces Its 2009 Product Line - Click here to view the new product line and then click here to register for a free rollout event near you.

ALACAD is now an Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, VIZ and Mental Ray reseller - ALACAD is now authorized to sell Autodesk Design Visualization solutions. Create breath-taking, photorealistic 3D rendered models and virtual tours that allow your clients to "see" your finished project before it even leaves the virtual world. Call us at 888-442-3100 to ask for a free trial cd today!

New Hydraulics and Hydrology Extensions for AutoCAD Civil 3D Now Available - The Hydraflow Hydrographs and Hydraflow Express extensions for AutoCAD Civil 3D software are now available, adding important storm water hydraulics and hydrology capabilities to AutoCAD Civil 3D. The Hydraflow Hydrographs Extension is a comprehensive solution for watershed analysis and detention pond design, from simple sites to complex watersheds with interconnected ponds. The Hydraflow Express Extension provides a collection of powerful calculators that solve everyday hydraulics and hydrology problems for culverts, channels, inlets, hydrology, and weirs. This can be downloaded from the Autodesk Subscription Center.

Autodesk 2005 Retirement - Autodesk will stop selling upgrades and crossgrades from Autodesk 2005 products on March 14, 2008. This means that after that date Autodesk will no longer provide technical support for those 2005 products and users of 2005 products will be unable to upgrade and will have to purchase a new copy of the software. These products include: AutoCAD LT 2005, AutoCAD 2005, Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005, Autodesk Land Desktop 2005, Autodesk Map 3D 2005, Autodesk Raster Design 2005, AutoCAD Mechanical 2005, AutoCAD Electrical 2005, and Autodesk Inventor Series 9.

Autodesk Announces Its New Plant and Process Design Solution: AutoCAD® P&ID
... and ALACAD is one of the few resellers in the US authorized to sell this new product. Create, modify, and manage piping and instrumentation diagrams with AutoCAD P&ID software. Built on the popular AutoCAD platform, AutoCAD P&ID is easy to use and familiar to designers and engineers, so design teams can get started immediately with little or no training. Common tasks performed every day are streamlined to boost productivity, while component and line information is brought straight to drafters as they work. With simple reporting, editing, sharing, and tracking of design information, your projects start easier, run better, and finish sooner. To see an online webcast about AutoCAD P&ID, click here.

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FREE Download! Autodesk® Inventor LT™
Autodesk Inventor LT makes it easy to create, share, and edit 3D part models from different CAD systems. It allows you to quickly import, export, create, and modify 3D part models in many common file formats to meet today’s increasing need for communicating in 3D. This software includes: multi-CAD translation capabilities for leading 3D file formats, 3D part model creation and editing, automated mechanical drawings, genuine DWG interoperability and photorealistic rendering. Click here to download now.

Announcing Diana, Autodesk's Online Building Soution Advisor - Whether you're an architect, structural or MEP engineer, designer or drafter, Autodesk has the right design software for you. Autodesk solutions are designed to support information and management needs throughout the building lifecycle. Simply access the online advisor for a few laughs and and a free personalized recommendation. Get started.

Congratulations to Dan Griffin, General Manager of Precision Grinding, Inc. on winning an iPod Shuffle by attending ALACAD's Autodesk 2008 Product Launch!

Autodesk Is Retiring Its 2005 Product Line
Autodesk will stop selling upgrades and crossgrades from Autodesk 2005 products on March 14, 2008. If you choose to upgrade before January 15, 2008, you can save 10% off the suggested retail price when you purchase a subscription with your upgrade. Call us to upgrade today!

Autodesk 2008 Product Launch Seminar Powerpoint Slides
Click here to view Keith Waite's powerpoint slides from his seminar on AutoCAD 2008. Click here to view powerpoint slides from the Autodesk Inventor 2008 seminar. Click here to view James Murphy's AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 slides. Click here to view Alice Craig's AutoCAD Architecture slides and click here to view her Revit Architecture slides. If you would like to save these slides to your computer, just right-click the link and then select Save Target As, choose the location you would like to save the slides to on your computer and click Ok.

Autodesk 2008 Product Line - The new 2008 Autodesk® product line delivers on the promise of design innovation with 2D and 3D tools that open the door to digital prototyping environments and allow customers to experience the impact of their design ideas before they are built. Click here to see the full product line, as well as the announcement video, RSS feed and more!

ALACAD News Now Has an RSS Feed! - Stay up to date with the latest CAD news. Just paste http://www.alacad.com/alacad.rss into your feedreader and you'll be instantly notified when news and events are added to our website.