Heidi Developer Guide

Developer Guide

version 10.1 - Public

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Third Party Software Program Credits

ACIS Copyright © 1989-2001 Spatial Corp.
Copyright © 1999-2000 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org) subject to its license terms and conditions (http://xml.apache.org/dist/LICENSE.txt).
Typefaces from the Bitstream © typeface library Copyright © 1992.
HLM © Copyright D-Cubed Ltd. 1996-2006. HLM is a trademark of D-Cubed Ltd.
AutoCAD © 2008 and AutoCAD LT © 2008 are produced under a license of data derived from DIC Color Guide © from Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc. Copyright © Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc. All rights reserved. DIC and DIC Color Guide are registered trademarks of Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.
Portions of this software are based on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
Active Delivery© 2.0 © 1999-2004 Inner Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
ISYS and the ISYS logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of ISYS© Search Software Inc.
Copyright © 1988-1997 Sam Leffler. Copyright © 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Copyright © Lingea s.r.o. 2006
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Copyright © 1996-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved
Copyright © 2002 Joseph M. O'Leary.
PANTONE © Colors displayed in the software application or in the user documentation may not match PANTONE-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE Color Publications for accurate color. PANTONE © and other Pantone, Inc. trademarks are the property of Pantone, Inc. © Pantone, Inc., 2004.
Pantone, Inc. is the copyright owner of color data and/or software which are licensed to Autodesk, Inc., to distribute for use only in combination with certain Autodesk software products. PANTONE Color Data and/or Software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of this Autodesk software product.
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RAL CLASSIC © RAL, Sankt Augustin, 2004.
Representation of the RAL Colors is done with the approval of RAL Deutsches Institut für Gütesicherung und Kennzeichnung e.V. (RAL German Institute for Quality Assurance and Certification, re. Assoc.), D-53757 Sankt Augustin.
This product includes code licensed from RSA Security, Inc. Some portions licensed from IBM are available at http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/.
The Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine Copyright © 1994-2003 Wintertree Software, Inc.
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Patents
Heidi software is patented by Autodesk, Inc.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Technical Publications and Graphics Engineering team for designing, writing, editing, illustrating, and producing the Heidi Developer Guide, with special thanks to Rob Fjerstad, manager of graphics engineering:

Matt Arrott, Jack Bayt, Terri Beauséjour, Michael Butler, Merrill Camilleri, Carey Clutts, Zay Collier, Bob Covey, John Falkner, Ashu Goel, Subu Gupta, Tanvir Hassan, Billy Hsu, Norbert Jeske, Erik Larsen, Jeff Kowalski, Mark Kumler, Brian Mathews, Josh Natarajan, Tracy Pelon, Fabio Quintanilla, Usha Sanagala, Ben Sellers, Lourdes Sodari-Smith, Scott Sheppard, Jim Stiefel, Natarajan Srinivasan, Dan Thompson, Corey Toler, Jon Tyson, Vivek Verma, Eric Wagner, and Richard Weiss.

Thanks also to the Hardcopy Engineering team for their work on the HDI Hardcopy supplement to the Heidi Developer Guide:

Jack Bayt, Terri Beauséjour, Irene Corpuz, Umang Dhamija, Mark Feldman, Jack Horng, Steve Iliff, Pramathesh Kumar, Mark Kumler, Charles Lee, Ram Mummidi, Tim Scully, Rob Sinkler, Dan Thompson, and Daniel Yu.

This guide was written by Richard Weiss based on the original specifications by Billy Hsu, Tim Scully, Scott Sheppard and as noted in the text.

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