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The Foolish CAD Manager Blog

I found this relatively new CAD Manager blog via the Autodesk University Blog Network. Marla, from one foolish CAD Manager to another, welcome to the foolish world of CAD blogging! The Foolish C... Read more →

The Aussie CAD Geek asks...

At the AutoCAD 2010 launch Steve Johnson, armed with a video camera, asked a bunch of CAD Bloggers a rather obvious question. This video is the result: A gaggle of geeks - www.blog.cadnauseam.co... Read more →

Autodesk Gallery - Design on show

Having seen "The Gallery", on Scott's Labs Blog , I was keen to visit and delighted to find it was the location for the AutoCAD 2010 Backstage Pass Event . When I arrived much of the display area was... Read more →

A surprise feature on TypePad

It was a pleasant surprise, and honour, to read TypePad's monthly newsletter and find I was the featured blogger! I didn't know until another TypePad'er at work told me this morning. I'd had a late... Read more →

Snagit shows how File Properties should be done

Right Click Properties on an image in the Snagit 9 Captures and you get this dialog It isn't that remarkable apart from one feature . The Location property is a URL that opens the containing fol... Read more →

Back from the blackout with a new look

It looks like the New Zealand Internet Blackout protest may have worked . While off-line I made some changes to the design, template and banners on all my blogs. As before the banner images will ch... Read more →

Today this site is blacked out in protest #blackout

UPDATE 2009-02-23: Looks like the Blackout Protest, and related submissions, may have worked: Computerworld John Key delays copyright law The government may suspend S92a if no agreement is reach... Read more →

AutoCAD 2010 - It's Parametric!

Parametric* Constraints are not new in CAD but are in AutoCAD 2010. I think their arrival, along with free form modelling, reflects a real change in attitude from Autodesk towards the application that... Read more →

Keep sending Autodesk CER Reports

If you crash and the Customer Error Report (CER) report dialog appears, send it and include your email contact. You'll add to information resource which helps trace fixes, perhaps even find out which... Read more →

AutoCAD 2010 - Rotate Viewport, PAPER/MODEL

AutoCAD 2010 introduces a couple of refinements for working in Layout (paperspace) viewports. Rotate Viewport, Rotate View! Previously to rotate a layout view you had to rotate the viewport UCS,... Read more →