Music
Mark Knopfler at the Bowl of Brooklands
I’ll be at the Bowl of Brooklands seeing Mark Knopfler this weekend. Comments to follow. UPDATE: My report on the concert
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Auckland
Auckland Unplugged
Visiting Auckland? A few suggestions of things to do from the Xtra Travel Site. Auckland Unplugged Auckland may be our biggest and busiest city, but there's more here than just Jafas and traffic jams… All those are just in the Auckland City region. You must also visit Waitakere,
AutoCAD
New Ads for Autodesk
Ralph has a link to the new Autodesk Print Ads, love the command line one “Crazy Eyes&rdquo
AutoCAD
New Autodesk AutoCAD and ADT 2006 newsgroups
These new “2006 newsgroups have appeared today: * Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2006 (Web Browser) * Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2006 (News Reader) * AutoCAD 2006 (Web Browser) * AutoCAD 2006 (News Reader) * AutoCAD LT 2006 (Web Browser) * AutoCAD LT 2006 (News Reader) ABS 2006 stuff is appearing in * Autodesk Building Systems (Web Browser) * Autodesk Building
Radio
Dave Allen tribute highlight
Highlight from the BBC Radio 4 Tribute broadcast. Dave Allen: “I’m an atheist, thank God”
AutoCAD Architecture
ADT 2006 Preview: New Project From Template
This long awaited feature allows you to set up a new Project by “cloning” an existing Project. The entire project structure and content is copied complete with the Apj file, all folders, constructs, elements, views, sheets and sheet-set file. The new project details are also applied where required. This
AutoCAD Architecture
ADT 2006 Preview: Space Gross/Net/Usable Boundaries
Space measurement was one of the prime reasons we migrated to ADT from AutoCAD as soon as ADT R2 was released in NZ. That was a long time ago but since we established a large amount of data using AEC Space objects we never bothered changing to the AEC Area
AutoCAD Architecture
ADT 2006 Preview: New AEC Modify Tools
There are some new AEC tools. As we are dealing with fitting layouts my favourites are: * Array * Reposition From * Space Evenly * Centre. The video shows these in action better than words can! Download/View ADT 2006 AEC Tools.wmv (703.5K)
AutoCAD Architecture
ADT 2006 Preview: Display Themes & External Data Linking
Display Themes: Allow the display of any AEC Object in a Viewport to be controlled by specific object/property data based on a specified theme. A simple example would be space shaded on the basis of its area but you could choose any other object property or property set data
Radio
BBC Radio Tribute to Dave Allen
A tribute to Dave Allen on BBC Radio 4 Dave Allen: The Sit Down Stand Up “As a tribute to Dave Allen, who died last week, we are repeating this programme which was first broadcast in January this year”
AutoCAD Architecture
ADT 2006 Preview: Project Standards
One of the greatest benefits of using ADT is its use of Styled Objects whose appearance is controlled by a Display System. This allows control of an objects form and appearance and easy transfer of these settings between different drawing files. All our Shop Fittings and Department/Building/Site space
AutoCAD Architecture
Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2006 Preview
The NDA has ended for beta testers so I can share some of the new features in ADT 2006. I’ve chosen a few features that will be particularly applicable to our store layout work. This is only a small selection of what is new and I'll link