Automobile
If you did one of those brand word association tests about "Chrysler" would you think of the world luxury? Car dealers take it on the chin - Stuff.co.nz "Pity the luxury car dealer. While for some buyers, money's still no object, the recession continues
AutoCAD
Autodesk Design Review can do transparent fills, AutoCAD (& Revit too) need it. If you have an opinion on this have your say in this survey: We Want Your Feedback on Transparency Support in AutoCAD - Between The Lines Blog
PowerPoint
Olivia Mitchell has great advice on how to deliver a PowerPoint based presentation that stands out from the crowd... Little-used methods to make the delivery of your PowerPoint stand out There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery. Most speakers still rely on
Autodesk University
In 2001 a guy walked into our office with a new design application. He passionately demonstrated it and left an impression. While the software was Revitlutionary the thing I really value from that day is knowing Phil Read. We've met occasionally over the years, both at AU and
Revit User Group NZ
Details of the next Revit User Group - Wellington (RUGWELL) meeting and 60 second NZ BIM Content Survey 27th May 2009 - Meeting No. 13 - Proposed Agenda Location : Beca's Offices, 77 Thorndon...
Show us the most useless thing on your desk. Quite cute but slows down my, already slow, typing!
AutoCAD
Over on the AutoCAD LT blog Kate has a great post with demos of my favourite "forgotten" AutoCAD command. Why move, rotate, even scale, when you can just: Align objects in AutoCAD LT* 2010 - ltunlimited.typepad.com * Although it's shown in LT, new for 2010, Align
CAD and BIM General
Remember the cool Augmented Reality I saw at the Autodesk Gallery, and seen at Autodesk University 2008. The Gadgeteer found it in a Lego Store! Our Lego Store Goes High-Tech "Imagine a magic mirror that when you hold a Lego box in front of it, a three dimensional
Share a book that made you laugh. I think he's a funny genius, which makes me... (see the red sticker) Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington
The car that defined FWD
AutoCAD Architecture
David Koch is working through an extremely detailed tour of the new AutoCAD Architecture 2010 User Interface on his blog The Architect's Desktop. Part 3 concentrates on the Home Tab of the Ribbon, earlier posts on the Application Button and Ribbon modes. AutoCAD® Architecture 2010 - UI Changes: * Part
Formula 1
As much as I admired his ability, I wasn't really a Senna fan. However the memory of that race, that tragic weekend which ended both Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna's lives is still very real, fifteen years later. Ayrton Senna dies after 190mph crash - May 2