Caddie Vio scoops top Lightworks prize for photorealistic rendering
SHEFFIELD, UK (16 November 2009) – Lightworks, the world’s leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics
software, with over 3 million users worldwide, today announced the results of the latest Lightworks Image Competition and awarded joint top prize to Caddie's very own Marius Louw.
In addition to winning the top prize, 2 of the 5 'highly commended' entries were also created in Caddie and rendered in Caddie Vio.
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Caddie Centurion office moves on Friday 23rd October - New contact numbers
Caddie's Centurion office will be moving to a new larger purpose built office building on Friday 23rd October. The new address will be:
Caddie
Design House
121 Amkor Road
Lyttelton Manor
Centurion
0157
The new offices are easy to find as they are next to the Centurion theatre. There is plenty of parking and more space with better training facilities.
Please make a note of the new contact numbers from Monday 26th October:
Telephone: 012 644 0300
Fax: 012 644 1158
Email and web addresses remain the same.
Caddie 15 is on display at Interbuild at the NEC in Birmingham UK, from today (Sunday 18th October) to Wednesday 21st October.
Sunday's visitors commented very favourably on the ease of use and value for money of Caddie and of particular interest were the digital terrain modelling, 3D architectural tools and the Vio photo-realistic rendering. If you are visiting the Interbuild, make sure you drop by the stand - IT33 in Hall 5.
After the success of the Gauteng launch, many of us thought that it would be difficult to repeat in Cape Town, but we could not have been more wrong. Clients arrived in droves and were treated to a masterful demonstration by Caddie's Marius Louw of some of the new features certain to save users time and increase their productivity.
Before the team even arrived back into their offices the user comments started flowing in with feedback such as:
'Caddie 15 works like a charm and the migration from 14 was seamless...'
and
'Very exciting launch... with every launch I realise what you quietly insert into Caddie to give us an excellent product that keeps up with technology'
After a weekend to recouperate the tour continued on to Namibia with events in Windhoek and Walvis Bay. Both of these events being well attended with clients praising the presentations and the software. Two very strong requests from Namibia are for additional training and for more accessibility to Caddie for students. Both of these will be addressed over the coming months.
The tour takes a break until the 8th October, but that is an exciting day with two launches - one the ever popular Durban event at the Royal Natal Yacht Club (contact leonid@caddie.co.za to reserve your place) and the first UK showing of Caddie 15 at the CUKUG user group meeting in Bromsgrove (contact Clare Kent clare@peter-kent-architect.net) to reserve your place.
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Caddie 15 Launch – Bytes Technologies, Midrand
The first event of the Caddie 15 Launch Tour took place on 10th September at the excellent Bytes Technologies conference centre in Midrand South Africa. Although registration opened officially at 9.30, delegates arrived from 7AM to beat the traffic and ensure they got a good seat at the presentation.
Whilst taking advantage of the refreshments and networking with colleagues and competitors alike, before the official presentation, the delegates were able to watch a choice of the latest Caddie training videos on large screens, view Hewlett Packard's latest scanner and plotter offerings from Graphicomp and see some of the capabilities of Caddie when used as a basis for third party development courtesy of Cadastral Computing.
The Gauteng Caddie Launch is traditionally one of the largest regular software launches in the South African calendar and as SpaceWorx's Rudd van Deventer said 'It's a regular event in our calendar and one we always look forward to.'
Graphicomp's Graham Roy added, 'Somehow Caddie just pulls in the crowds, of all the events we do the Caddie launch gets by far the best attendance'.
After an introduction and presentation of the coveted 'Caddie caps' by Gerhard Mostert and Leonie van der Merwe, the delegates were treated to a Keynote speech by Caddie's Managing Director Derek Bretherton followed by a presentation of the new features of Caddie 15 by Caddie's Marius Louw, showing enhancements for all the disciplines as well as many new features in Caddie's 'Lightworks' based rendering package Caddie Vio which was launched at last year's event.
Caddie Vio has already made its mark in the rendering world - Vio renders scoring 'highly recommended' in the quarterly worldwide 'Lightwork Design' rendering competition and being used for product promotion for Lightwork's new release - quite some achievement for a product just a year old considering there are over 2 million users worldwide utilising the same rendering engine - a testament to both the Caddie users and the product itself.
The delegates’ response to Caddie 15 can best be summed up with some of the feedback received on the day:
'Caddie 15 is awesome...'
'The new features are out of this world - please keep up this wonderful and amazing work'
'Its time to update from Caddie 9…'
'Amazing'
'Such a fantastic launch...'
And also by Derek Bretherton who added: ‘It was a very rewarding launch. Much of our development is driven by the requests and feedback of our existing users and clearly they liked what they saw today. The presentation was regularly interrupted by rounds of applause from the floor as the new features were demonstrated, and looking out over an almost full auditorium and seeing so many smiling and awestruck faces was very satisfying for everybody who has worked so hard to prepare for this event - its going to be a tough one to follow next year, but I can't wait for the next event in Cape Town next week'.
The Cape Town launch takes place at Bellvista Lodge, Bellville Park Campus on Wednesday 16th September at 10am. If you haven't already booked your place, telephone 012 665 0000 or email leonid@caddie.co.za
For pictures of the Gauteng launch see us on Facebook
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Getting the information you want about Caddie just got easier!
Whether you are an existing customer needing a bit of help, or just interested in finding out more about Caddie you can get immediate answers to your questions from a real person just by clicking the Live Support link at the top of the page.
Simply click the link and one of our trained staff will be there to assist you.
Caddie UK User Group Meeting visits the Savill Building in Windsor Great Park
The Savill Building in Windsor Great Park, the eye-catching sea-shell inspired addition to the Royal Park with its towering single-cell space residing beneath its undulating green-wood roof, played host to the latest Caddie UK User Group meeting recently.
The Spring meeting for the Caddie UK User Group, one of four held each year at different locations around the UK each year, provided the group members with an informative and thought provoking day of workshops on Caddie and the efficient use of the ‘DWG’CAD drawing format; the use of the latest photovoltaic technology for the capture of solar energy within buildings; and a case study in carbon efficient housing by one of the group’s own members.
The day’s Caddie workshops, hosted by ACS’ Andrew Wheatley, dealt with a variety of topics, covering aspects as diverse as Linetype scaling through to the placement of light sources in the Caddie Vio photorealistic rendering application. Users also saw how to use Caddie to produce road sections from 2D drawings utilising tools from the Caddie DTM, Survey and Civil Applications, all illustrated using real-world based examples. The day closed with a Q&A session to cover members’ operational queries and thoughts on the future development of Caddie; helping users make the most of what must be almost unique in term of major CAD software packages, direct access to the makers of their Caddie software.
The Caddie UK User Group meets four times a year with direct input each meeting from ACS to provide insight and feedback into the development of Caddie.
User group meetings provide members with up to 6 hours of formal CPD at each meeting, and give opportunities for networking, ideas and work sharing.
Caddie UK User Group membership is just £45 per year and open to any licensed Caddie user.
Further information on the Caddie UK User Group can be obtained by emailing
Clare Kent or from the user group website www.architect-net.co.uk
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Department of Local Government and Housing in Polokwane standardize on Caddie
Caddie is the preferred CAD software for the Department of Local Government and Housing in Polokwane in the Northern Province of South Africa.
After researching and evaluating all possible CAD options, the Department of Local Government and Housing Northern Province in Polokwane has standardized on Caddie for all their design and draughting requirements.
Pictured at the hand over of the multi-user network license are: Marius Louw (Caddie), Maite Mpholoane (Department Housing), Rabone Rachidi (Department Housing) and Belinda Cowden (Department Housing).
Training: Caddie Announce the first 2009 Developers Training Seminar
The first 2009 Caddie 3rd party developers seminar will take place on Thursday 12th March in Centurion South Africa.
The training is open to all registered 3rd party Caddie developers but places are limited so pre-booking is essential. For further details contact Caddie support on +27 (0) 12 665 0000
Impak choose 275 copies of Caddie 14 for home education
Leading supplier of home study courses in South Africa, Impak. empowers parents with their products to teach children at home. Impak currently has over 3000 students ranging from primary to secondary education. They have a matric pass rate of 93%. Impak uses Guides,video, and will now use the power of 275 Caddie 14 packages to teach their technical subjects. Caddie has been part of the education process in South Africa for the last 20 years.
Pictured receiving the packages: from left to right are Pieter and Elize Botha (Impak), Vic du Preez (Caddie), Johan Labuschagne (Impak) and Derek Bretherton (Caddie).
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The day’s Caddie workshops, hosted by ACS’ Andrew Wheatley, dealt with a variety of topics, covering aspects as diverse as Linetype scaling through to the placement of light sources in the Caddie Vio photorealistic rendering application. Users also saw how to use Caddie to produce road sections from 2D drawings utilising tools from the Caddie DTM, Survey and Civil Applications, all illustrated using real-world based examples. The day closed with a Q&A session to cover members’ operational queries and thoughts on the future development of Caddie; helping users make the most of what must be almost unique in term of major CAD software packages, direct access to the makers of their Caddie software.
The Caddie UK User Group meets four times a year with direct input each meeting from ACS to provide insight and feedback into the development of Caddie.
User group meetings provide members with up to 6 hours of formal CPD at each meeting, and give opportunities for networking, ideas and work sharing.
Caddie UK User Group membership is just £45 per year and open to any licensed Caddie user.
Further information on the Caddie UK User Group can be obtained by emailing 
