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@ AU, are you? Autodesk University 2011 #AU2011

As I write, according to the countdown on Shaan Hurley’s blog, it is a mere fifty six days and five hours until Autodesk University 2011, Las Vegas, begins. However another deadline is approaching rapidly if you are thinking of attending and haven’t registered yet. General Registration opened mid September but if you register by October 11th you can save up to us$500 on the 3 Day pass. Although I love attending AU it seemed a remote possibility this year. However that changed last week with some assistance from Autodesk Public Relations, via the AutoCAD Blogger Council, in the form of... Read more →

AutoCAD gets ’App’y! — Autodesk Exchange Companion Apps

AutoCAD is perhaps the ultimate multi-purpose design application packed with tools to create pretty much any geometry. Sure, industry specific applications excel in their niche but AutoCAD is the great all-rounder. Need a solid modeller, or maybe a mesh modeller, perhaps some surfacing? I suppose at some stage you may need to document it and AutoCAD can do that too. There are lots of tools but what if you want to do more, easier, faster? Consider “AutoCAD the platform” able to be extended, programmed, pushed into all sorts of roles with scripting, programming interfaces & developer tools. Drawing that polyline,... Read more →

Meeting other AutoCAD Bloggers at an AutoCAD Event

One benefit of working for The Warehouse is you get your birthday off. I usually defer mine to make the Auckland Anniversary long weekend even longer. That's why, a couple of weeks back, I finished work on Thursday anticipating a long lazy weekend at home with no plans to fight the holiday traffic. I was also going to finally decide what to do for a summer holiday. For the past several years this has been sorted long before summer as I've joined a cycle tour in New Zealand or elsewhere. I'm not doing that this year and had put off... Read more →

SnagIt + MindManager 7.0 = Happiness!

One of the best accessories for SnagIt is the “ MindManager Output ”. Sadly this was broken when I upgraded to MindManager 7 . Yesterday I attended the Revit Tech Conference and today I was transcribi... Read more →

Share a screen capture in a Jing

The Jing Project is an experiment from TechSmith , the screen capture/recording people, who are best known for SnagIt Camtasia. It offers a little of each product in a slick, easy to use, form for bot... Read more →

Why MindManager? Easy!

5 hours of Meeting Notes. Minutes to issue by when? Glad I captured it in MindManager … Export to Word (a few formatting tweaks), Export to PDF, Export to PowerPoint…. Email Exports + orig... Read more →

MindManager Pro 7 Ribbon vs Toolbars, which uses less screen real estate?

Following on from my earlier post on the “Fluent UI” one of the comments I’ve seen about MindManager Pro 7, and Office 2007, is concern at the amount of screen used by the ribbon in comparison to tool... Read more →

AutoCAD, or AutoCAT, Usability Testing

After reading Mark W. Kiker’s post on Autodesk Usability Feedback I found this old footage, while cleaning up some old media folders, which dates back to AutoCAD 2006 (released in 2005) . As it may... Read more →

Windows Live Writer, nice price but not for me

If you are serious about blogging an off-line editor is an essential tool. TypePad have a good on-line editor but I rarely use it as it’s still slow cumbersome in comparison to a local editor. As a... Read more →

Towel Day!

Thanks to Melanie for reminding me it’s “ Towel Day ”. Disclosure: Although I’m a DNA fan I didn’t remember to carry a towel all day. However, I did inadvertently photograph the Vogon Constructo... Read more →