Eric D. Colburn, PLS

Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News: NVIDIA Quadro Lets AutoCAD 2011 Designers Achieve Maximum Productivity.

NVIDIA has announced improved workflows for AutoCAD 2011 designers using NVIDIA® Quadro® certified  graphics processing units (GPUs). NVIDIA promises visual accuracy, fast 3D performance and high reliability with their Quadro professional graphics solutions.

About NVIDIA and Autodesk

NVIDIA first shook up the computer graphics industry in 1999 by inventing the GPU. This new visual computing standard provided enhanced interactive graphics on a wide range of devices including tablets, portable media players, notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA’s expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible.

Autodesk and NVIDIA are strategic partners collaborating extensively, yearly investing thousands of hours of collective engineering, to certify the Quadro GPUs for AutoCAD. NVIDIA has also invested more than 10 years in application specific optimizations to optimize AutoCAD performance.

With the release of the AutoCAD 2011 line of software by Autodesk, and all of the new features and visual styles designers can implement in 2D plans or 3D models, the NVIDIA professional-class Quadro GPU promises to let designers expand upon the complexity of their designs. The ability to better visualize our designs using the AutoCAD 2011 should bring increases in productivity and eliminating waste as we move closer to BIM.

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CHECK THIS OUT – PRINTER INK CARTRIDGES AND LASER TONER!

I don’t know about you, but my land surveying business runs on printing supplies and a lot of ink. The printing supplies used to deliver your hard copy plans can be expensive. Check out 123inkjets.com and see if you can save some of your hard earned money by buying your printing supplies through them.

123inkjets.com offers printer ink cartridges and laser toners for all major printers such as HP, Cannon, Lexmark, and Dell. They say they make the shopping experience easy and fun, offering high quality products to meet your needs. They also provide a 1-year risk free guarantee for consumers, and free shipping on purchases of $55 or more.

I found the ink cartridge I use for my plotter at over half off (53% less) the price I usually pay. The technical specifications given on their website for my ink cartridge is:

“Our high quality black inkjet cartridges use high-density, pigmented ink to produce crisp, sharp characters and deliver great-looking results, page after page. Ideal for business or home users who want professional-quality, long-lasting printouts. This high quality inkjet cartridge was professionally re-engineered in a manufacturing facility that uses state of the art processes to insure that this cartridge will print as well as the original.”

123inkjets.com can be a good OEM inkjet and toner alternative.