Get Two Online eClasses for the price of One!

The team here at CadimageTools are pleased to announce the availability of a program of Online eClasses, which can be ordered through our website as of now.

To get you started, we’re going to be giving away a second eClass to everyone one who purchases one from now until the 19th of February. All you need do is email customer.care@cadimagetools.com to let them know which eClass you’d like free once you’ve purchased one.

To find out more about the eclasses, follow this link to our website.

Tags: eClass, promo, training

ArchiCAD Master Template – Now with Cadimage Legends

The ArchiCAD MasterTemplate (AMT) is a comprehensive resource to enable you to quickly maximize the potential of ArchiCAD. It features a highly developed, fully customizable project template (TPL file) filled with presets and tools to speed the creation of models and construction documents, as well as a detailed sample PLN file showing the template put to full use.

The ArchiCAD MasterTemplate is the creation of Eric Bobrow and Scott Bulmer of Bobrow Consulting Group (BCG).

Over the last 6 months Eric and Scott have been working with the team at Cadimage to create the Cadimage Legends that are now available for the ArchiCAD Master Template.

Normally the Cadimage Legends are sold as an extension to the AMT, however, if you purchase AMT before the end of the year you will receive the Cadimage Legends for Free!

Click here to be taken to the AMT Website.

Read what customers have to say about the ArchiCAD Master Template.

If you require any further information regarding AMT please contact Eric Bobrow on template@bobrow.com

Tags: master template

Preparing for 2010…

It is now 5 years since we launched the Cadimage Tools Online!

In this time we have sold over 10,000 Tools and Upgrades and have attracted customers from far and wide. A big thank you is extended to all our customers.

We have big plans for 2010 and decided we should do a little “housework” in preparation for these plans.

This “housework” should only take you a minute or two to complete and will help us provide you with a higher level of service without the need to bombard you with emails!

In the ever increasing Online World we appreciate that constant emails may simply get overlooked. For this reason we have introduced two email classifications so you can choose which emails you would like to receive from us:

• Monthly Newsletters – fairly self explanatory 12 emails a year summarising all our news
• Promotional Emails – irregular emails drawing attention to promotional activity we are undertaking (for example our current 2-4-1 Promotion)

In addition to emails we provide a number of other communication methods that you can choose use, these are outlined below.

In addition to this we would also encourage you to supply us with some additional information regarding your company so we can provide better targeted material. This information includes:

• Current ArchiCAD Version
• Number of ArchiCAD Licenses
• ArchiCAD Reseller (if listed as a Cadimage Tools Partner)

Simply logging in to the Cadimage Tools website will take you to where you can update and confirm these details. Even if you are happy with the current settings/information we need you to confirm them so we know you are happy!

In appreciation of your time and effort and to encourage you to confirm your information in a timely fashion we are offering an incentive! All those customers who confirm their details prior to Friday 18th December will go in to a draw to win one of 3 prizes of a Cadimage Suite of their choice.

Communication Methods

Aside from regular email contact we use other communication methods that may be more suited to you. These include:

• Cadimage Tools Blog – This Blog contains regular updates. You can subscribe to it via RSS and have it delivered to your RSS Reader automatically.
• Cadimage Tools Twitter – Provides little snippets of information and links that you may find useful
• Cadimage Tools Facebook – A Facebook Fan page for our Facebook customers

Thank you once again for your business over the last 5 years and for taking the time to help us Prepare for 2010!

Interim Releases

As we go through support tickets and emails, we often get reports of ‘issues’ in the tools that we need to patch up. Often this doesn’t take very long, but the process of fixing everything that has been reported takes time, as does getting the completed package properly tested and ready for release. We appreciate that in some cases, having to wait a month or two is just too long though, so that’s why we’ve introduced Interim Releases.

The Interim Releases will be issued much more frequently than the Official Releases so that you can get your ‘fix’ as soon as humanly possible. The interim releases will be given a basic check-over to make sure that they don’t do anything horrid to your ArchiCAD setup or your projects, so you can be confident in using them on production computers.

We’ll be working to get issues you report into an interim release as soon as possible, but sometimes we may not be able to fit all the fixes in before we make an interim release. You’ll be able to see which things are fixed in the Release Reports (in the Help Centre), and which are still outstanding. If in doubt, you can always just contact us (via support ticket, email, facebook, twitter, skype etc). At the moment, you can only download the latest available Interim Release for each tool, but we will be allowing access to the full history of all Interim Releases shortly.

To get an Interim Release, go to the Downloads page and click on Interim Releases from the sidebar on the left.

You’ll then see a grid of all the available Interim Releases. Simply click on the Windows or Apple logo to download the Windows or OSX files, and once the download is finished, you can install as normal (follow the instructions here if you’re unsure).

If you do encounter any problems while using an interim release, please let us know which one/s you are using when reporting issues.

Tags: interim, interim releases, releases

Downloads Page Updates

We’ve just made some pretty major changes to our Downloads page to make it not only easier to use, but to allow you to access even more than you could before. We’ve also added completely new Interim Release and Manual Installation sections to really help you get the most out of the Tools.

The Downloads page now has 4 options in the sidebar on the left, allowing you to access each section.

Current Releases

The Current Releases are the latest versions of the tools for the current ArchiCAD version. At the time of writing, this is ArchiCAD version 13, and the current releases are almost all version 13.1.

Anatomy of the Page

The Green area is the sidebar, which lets you choose which section you want to see. The Purple area indicate which Operating System version you have selected, and allows you to change it. The Blue area shows the tools or suites that you actually own. Tick the boxes on the left of any of the list items to include that in the download. The Yellow area is the tools or suite that you don’t own, but you can tick the boxes on the left of any of those to get a 30-Day free trial of them. Finally, the Red area is the Download button. This will start the download process.

The Interim Releases are explained here.

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Buy One and we’ll give you another!

Cadimage Tools is pleased to wish you a very Happy November! Starting right now, if you buy any one Tool or Suite from us, we’ll give you another one (of the same or lesser value) completely free!

Just buy any Tool or Suite from now until the 13th of December, and then email customer.care@cadimagetools.com to let them know what you’d like as your free gift. You don’t even need to make it something different, it could be another license of the same product if that’s what you want.

Note: You are not limited to one free Suite/Tool; for example, if you buy 5 Design Suites we would give you 5 Documentation Suites - Free - if that’s what you wanted!

Also: This offer doesn’t apply to upgrades, only full Tool/Suite purchases.

Tags: 2 for 1, promo

Day 13 – They’re Here!

The Team here at CadimageTools are very pleased to announce that we’ve just released the Tools for ArchiCAD 13!

They are available for download from our website immediately, just login and go to My Account – Downloads, or follow the link below:

http://www.cadimagetools.com/myAccount/downloads.aspx

At this stage, all tools are available except Revision Manager(and, by extension, the Documentation Suite), which is getting a bit of ‘extra care’ to make sure that it plays nice with the new Teamwork. It’ll be released in about a week.

Tags: 13 Days

The 13 days of Cadimage Tools!

So ArchiCAD 13 has been announced & Graphisoft are not the only developers who have been busy.

To celebrate the upcoming release of ArchiCAD and the Cadimage Tools, we’re going to be counting down the 13 days from now until the tools arrive by offering you a daily glimpse of what we’ve been doing for the last few months.

As of right now, you can buy or upgrade the version 13 Cadimage Tools from our website. Anybody who has purchased the tools since the start of August will receive a free upgrade of those tools to version 13, and anybody upgrading their tools before the 13th of October will get 13% off the upgrade price!

Be sure to check in each day on our Blog, Twitter, or Facebook pages.

Tags: ArchiCAD 13

Cadimage Tools – Now 100% more Social!

Cadimage Tools are very pleased to announce our presence on Twitter and Facebook!

Various members of the Cadimage Tools team will be tweeting to let you know about what kind of things we are doing with the tools, related news that may be of interest to you, or just general comments to help you get to know who we are and what we do. Feel free to follow us and send @replies whenever you want.

We’ve also set up a page on Facebook so we can share information about us and what we’re doing. We’ll be publishing photos, videos and links from time to time, plus activity updates when we do things that you might be interested in. You can ‘Become a Fan’ of ours to keep track of us, and you can also leave messages on our wall or in our discussion area.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Tags: facebook, twitter

Free Tracking Curve Tool

We are very pleased to announce the release of our new Tracking Curve tool. The Tracking Curve tool is completely free and is available for immediate download. Follow the link below to check it out and start downloading:

http://www.cadimagetools.com/trackingcurves.aspx

The Tracking curve tool allows you to produce forward tracking curves for 3 different vehicles(Articulated Truck, Rigid Truck, and Car). The objects are fully parametric and can be easily setup using our Icon-based interface.

Once you have the tracking Curve Tool, follow our quick tutorial video to see how to use it. This is available below, as well as in the Tutorials section of CadimageTools.com.

Registration with CadimageTools is free, and is the only requirement to download the Tracking Curve Tool.

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