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Our CAD Vacancies page has just been updated.  We are looking for a variety of mechanical design engineers with experience in different fields and with different software.  We are also looking for electrical design engineers, please take a look and send us your CV if you wish to apply.

Nova Design are now on social networking sites Facebook & Twitter.  To stay up to date with everything Nova please become a fan and follow us using the links below

Further strengthening our team, we would also like to welcome Greg Hodge to Nova Design.  Greg, working in sales, is experienced in the automotive, aerospace and machine tool industries with specialist knowledge in fixturing and metal joining.

We would like to welcome Tom Morris to the Nova team.  Tom, who graduated from Worcester University in 2007 has joined us in Sales & Marketing after previously working for Alta Systems.

Autodesk have today released Service Pack 1 for Inventor 2010, Autocad Mechanical 2010 and also Autocad Electrical 2010.

Both x32 and x64 versions are available for download.

Inventor 2010 – http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=13713884&linkID=9242019

Autocad Mechanical 2010 – http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=13842127&linkID=9240898

Autocad Electrical 2010 – http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=13777929&linkID=9240738

These will be installed at Nova over the next couple of days. I’ll provide feedback as required.

A recent issue has come to light :

When trying to launch AutoCAD 2010 as a non-admin user or any other new user whose windows profile was created after AutoCad installation you may get the following errors/warnings:

- Unable to load profile file. Some profile information saved in last session may not be restored.
or/and
- Customization file load failed. File not found: acad
or/and
- Font not found: simplex, Specify Font for FONTALT
or/and
- Missing workspace ribbons

As discussed here – http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=6224260

I can confirm the following fix (as provided by Greg.Toews) works.

If the user’s registry profile is corrupt for some reason you can also just delete it and then start AutoCAD. AutoCAD will then create a default profile from scratch. (HKCU\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\Rnn.n\ACAD-nnnn:nnn)

SolidWorks have recently issued a patch (V2009 SP4.1) to fix the major issues encountered by SolidWorks 2009 (especially X64 edition) and Internet Explorer 8 installed on the same workstation.

So far, we’ve found no issues with the service pack and IE8 runs fine.

I’ll provide more feedback as and when if things change.

Further to popular demand, Nova have updated their CAD Humour cartoon page.

The aim is to refresh the cartoons on a weekly basis. Please bookmark / subscribe to our RSS feed for news of the latest updates.

1st August 2009 is 21 years since Nova Design started trading.

On behalf of the management team and our team of design engineers, I’d like to say thank you to all past, current and future clients.

Heres to the next 21 years !

Simon – Business Development Director – Nova Design.

Useful CAD Tool for Autodesk Inventor 2010, allows features to be quickly re-named.

http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com/blogs/blog/view/Rename_Features/