31 January 2014

Another year over, and a new one just begun

Festive holidays have passed us by here in Stuttgart and without snow too. Many are happy but I feel somhow cheated and slightly dissapointed. Winter without snow is like a Chrismas tree without decorations on it, just not right. On the other hand not having to scrape ice off the windscreen for ten minutes is also nice.

Palette CAD-wise it has been a very good start to the year. The new upgrade 8.1 is in it's final testing stage and should be finished next week. The wiz-kids upstairs in the programming department have manged to pack-in more than 70 new features and improvements into this upgrade and I must admit even I am truly impressed. Some of my favorites include the new easy way to position the sun live in the plan, new light fittings feature under insert tab and a fantastic Google like search feature for materials and objects. A whole list of these can be found in Palette CAD 8.1 help menu (F1) under "New features in Palette CAD 8.1". Make sure you take some time to check it out for yourself when you get your copy or have a read in our next "Tip of the month" installment in February!

We were once again at Kok 2014 in Wels, where brought along our new 52 inch touchscreen toy with in-development internet planner Palette@HOME for our visitors to try out. The feedback was very positive and most people found it very easy and intuitive to use. We also added our newest member of the team to the program, Palette Cat, which visitors thought was a very fun touch.


The fair itself was very good as always, lots of new ideas and inspirations. Only drawback was that some of the big boys decided not to present there this year. Not to worry as there was still plenty to see and do as you can see from some of the pics below.

3D model printer, fully integrated with Palette CAD of course


Some of the handwork on display was truly mesmarising

In other developments, updates in the tiling and stove catalogues are almost finished so these should also be making their way to our service partnership users during February.

Such a great start and so much more to come throughout 2014, it's really going to be a busy and an exciting year for Palette CAD and our users. Thank you all once again for being a part of our adventure. Until next time...

Greeting from Stuttgart,
Your Palette CAD-Blog Team






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