A Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him
I logged a support call for the I.E. window problem experienced after the Live Toolbar install and was impressed to get a response, from a human! The email requested more detail so I recorded a short...
CAD and BIM General
This really is Part 3! Even regular readers can be forgiven not remembering Parts 1 2 which were posted in, um, August 2004! While the last line of Part 2 read: More to follow... I must admit I didn’t...
Was having a late’ish dinner and thought that’s odd, felt like the house moved back forth slowly several times… and it had! There was a Ricter 3.7 – depth 6km quake about 20:30, a bit later one of Ric...
Back in January I posted in response to Franco Folini’s post: “Don't Quit Your Day Job to Start a CAD Blog” If you’re considering doing that this interview with Richard MacManus, a professional Kiw...
CAD and BIM General
Kenneth Wong reports on the recent Autodesk World Press Day 2007 New Autodesk Maxim: Experience it Before it's Real - Cadalyst at World Press Day 2007 Company executives unveil new products and strategies -- including a sharp focus on digital prototyping -- at World Press Day 2007…. New Autodesk Maxim: Experience
It popped up for days before I hit update… “Upgrade your MSN Desktop Search to the new Live Search and Toolbar” for all sorts of wonderful reasons. Perhaps not that wonderful as I cant remember wha...
Office
Thanks to a post by Jithen I’ve signed up for a Microsoft 2007 Technical Briefing Session (Auckland). It’s not quite “ Tech-Ed ” but should be interesting to catch up with their take on Vista, applica...
AutoCAD
As I wrote the Dashboard Layer Control post I noticed all that blank space above the Layer State control. I use the layer off, freeze, lock controls on the former Layers II (before that Express tools)...
Auckland
The Queen Mary 2 arrived in Auckland today and sails tonight. Pity due to it’s size it had to berth amongst the containers but that didn’t stop thousands, including me, going to have a look. It’s not...
Photography
I can understand Photographer Peter Bush being frustrated about losing his work however find his comment about "abstract digital crap" rather odd. I think the story reveals one huge advantage of digit...
AutoCAD Architecture
I’ve revised some of my blog categories (indexes) to reflect some recent name changes: Architectural Desktop changes to AutoCAD Architecture Revit changes to Revit Architecture Building Sy...
AutoCAD
The dashboard now contains the functions previously seen on the Layer Properties toolbar and more. In addition to the layer settings flyout it allows access to Layer Filter groups which is handy. It a...
