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What to do - 10 Hours between flights at L.A. International....

I’m soon off to another conference which happens to be at “The Yacht Club” – about 300 metres from the AU Venue in Orlando. Any ideas on how to fill a 10 Hour gap between flights at L.A. International? It will be 12 hours to get there followed by another 5 hours to Orlando… Read more →

Artistic CAD? - Meet Vespa

At Autodesk University there was a lot of talk about “Vespa” but it didn’t refer to cute little Italian scooters (right). What is Vespa? An “application concept” being previewed at AU. This is not a product, or even a beta, and the presentation was subject to a disclaimer* that you may never see any of it in a release product…. So what does Vespa do? The idea is to take precise, too precise, 2d output from CAD applications as an AutoCAD Drawing (.dwg) or Design Web Format (.dwf) export and transform it into an artistic sketch/illustration. I can do that... Read more →

AU Review at "Point of Beginning"

Point of Beginning review the Autodesk University 2005 event. AU at 13: Realizing Ideas - Point of Beginning. Via CADwire.net Read more →

FreeMind Import for MindManager

FreeMind is great open source mind mapping software. MindManager users can now use a free Mindjet Labs add-on to import FreeMind map files into MindManager Pro 6. FreeMind Import ~ www.mindjet.com/labs. Read more →

X3 Unlucky for some

It’s said Corel made the new release CorelDRAW X3 to avoid an unlucky release 13* but it didn’t help Corel U.K.’s launch featuring London Zoo's “Christopher the Chameleon”… IT Sneak: The curse of Corel. * Maybe with good reason; Carol Bartz still mentioned, even apologised for, the infamous AutoCAD R13 (1994) at Autodesk University this year. Read more →

Corel Wordperfect to support Microsoft Office XML Formats

Corel will add support for the new Office 12 XML formats to Wordperfect when Office 12 is released. Via and more comment at: Brian Jones: Office XML Formats : Corel to support Microsoft Office Open XML Formats. Read more →

A little bit about Vista Graphics

It's from a Microsoft Flight Simulator related blog, so games focused, but there is some useful info on the Microsoft Windows Vista DirectX Graphics system changes. The Little Wheel Goes in Back : What I Know About Vista. “Vista will include the next generation of DirectX--Direct 10 (a.k.a. DX10). The current version is DX9 and it's available on Windows XP. Vista will support both DX9 and DX10. Why both? The biggest reason is that DX10 will not work on currently available graphic cards. It's just changed too much to be compatible” Read more →

How to get around an ADT "Command in progress can't save"

Sometimes when you save ADT will give a message: Document ":\\.dwg" has a command in progress. Hit enter to cancel or [Retry]: Hitting enter will usually result in the same message again. Try entering SAVE on the command line as this will usually get past the command in progress message. Read more →

A new Boss at Autodesk

I was going to write about this but Randall has said it all already. Smooth Transitions at Autodesk: Bass to President and CEO; Bartz to Executive Chairman - aecnews.com. So, what about an Autodesk CEO Blog Carl? Read more →

Emailing DWF's

Nice DWF Viewer tips from Mark In the Dynamic Interface: DWF Send Finally!!. Read more →