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2014

May	CAD Articles
April	LD_Assistant Reviewed by Lighting&Sound America

2013

Jan	How To Speed Up Your Work
Feb	LD Control and LD Animation: How to get the Client to Interact with the Project
Mar	Kevin Denzel's Views on Rendering With LD Assistant
Apr	DMX Patch Editor by Stephen Ellison
May	Creating Seating Functions by Stephen Ellison
Jun	3D Modeling by Rufus Warren
Jul	User Coordinate System Icon
Aug	LD Assistant's 3D Solids
Sep	Move, Rotate, and Scale Faces on 3D Solids
Oct	LD Assistant's Wind, Water, Beam Turbulence and More!

2012

Jan	Professional Online CAD Training by Art Whitton
Feb	With LD Assistant's NEW Wire & Cable you can track
Mar	LD Assistant's NEW 3D Audio
Apr	NEW Pyrotechnic Effects
May	By placing the curser over any fixture,will pop-up an information
Jun	New DMX Patch Editor makes it easy to edit your DMX patch
July	The Polysolid tool makes it easy trace around the 2D plan and create a 3D shell of a venue
Aug	LD Assistant is multi-threaded in two areas: display driver and rendering.
Sep	Move selected objects quickly by using the NEW nudge tool
Oct	Create Chevron Seating using Production Tools and the NEW Array menu
Nov	The Silent Revolution - 3D Printing in the Workplace and the Home
Dec	Creating Rope Light in LD Assistant

2011

Jan	Save and share a tool palette or tool palette group by exporting it or importing it as a file
Feb	100 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know
Mar	Working on Layouts 15 - Toggling Model & Layout Tabs
Apr	Creating Planar Surfaces, Extruding Surfaces, Isolating Objects
May	Creating Practical Light Blocks, Plot Raster Images, Working on LAYOUTs
Jun	When It's Your Design That's On The Line, Why Settle For Less Than The Best!
Jul	Fifteen Reasons to Buy LD Assistant
Aug	CAD in the Theatre by David Ripley
Sep	NEW LD Assistant Task Manager, a revolutionary tool
Oct	Create a Custom Keyboard Shortcut, How Do You Share DWG Files, Text Alignment Technique
Nov	Attach an Xref, How to Create a Text Style for a Dimension, Draw 2D Isometric Views
Dec	Changes to the SNAP command, Understanding Basics of Dimension Style Settings

2010

Jan	Featured lighting designer Timothy Burke
Feb	Featured lighting designer GB Stephens
Mar	Featured lighting designer DJ Seibert
Apr	Featured Designers Users Ben Marquardt & Ruben Kuster
May	Featured lighting designer Kevin Denzel
Jun	Discovering Tool Palettes, Advanced Plotting Using Layouts, Bring Back The Lost Toolbars
Jul	Perform a real-time search for commands on the Quick Access toolbar
Aug	Featured lighting designer Chicago's Area Technical Director Nate Dillon
Sep	Layer Manager - Work With The Industry Standard in CAD Layering
Oct	Thumping and Bumping With the Best! - LD Assistant Unleashed
Nov	Meet The LD Assistant 2010 Class
Dec	LD Assistant 2010 Photometric Lights

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