Vale Rich Sales (Salesoft CAD Solutions)
A quiet genius
Not all CEO's can be Carl Bass
i was listening to this, podcast link below, and the recent news of tech CEO pilgrimages to Florida to meet with the incoming... Conversation with Carl Bass - Former CEO of Autodesk and Maker of All Things Awesome | Manufacturing Spaces By Pete Oxenham This week Carl joins us to share
AutoCAD
A challenge for Andrew Anagnost, make this using only the advertised product
Why do Autodesk show things that can't be done with the product being advertised? I recently got this advert on Facebook: The link went to a bundle offer for AutoCAD LT subscription: Look at that image: * Can AutoCAD LT do proper 3D? No. * Can it render? Not that
Business
End of an era, as Autodesk leaves Shaan Hurley
On Tuesday 30 March 2004, I posted this on TypePad: Getting Started This is the first post to see how it all works. Read other weblogs, thought I'd have a go myself. RobiNZ CAD Blog The reason I chose TypePad, then a new'ish (public launch October
AutoCAD & Revit mouse wheel unwanted zoom extents after panning
Not sure when it started but both AutoCAD & Revit started Zooming to extents after a 'hold the wheel' mouse pan. Maybe something changed (mouse driver) or working on a remote connected machine impacts timing... Bit of a searching I found an Autodesk forum post (about AutoCAD) but
An AutoCAD thing I wish Revit had
When you just want to put something in the middle of two other things/points without the hassle of dimensioning and EQ constraining, arraying or whatever… A “Mid between 2 points” snap override would be handy.
AutoCAD Toolbars live on?
AutoCAD appeared (in use at ZF Transmissions) about 01:20:00 into the marathon Microsoft Build Day One keynote. It was a segment about ‘empowering first line workers”: I.e. the ones who do actual work… It was interesting but what got my attention were the toolbars. I Love the
Next generation of Autodesk BIM 360 announced #AU2017
BIM 360 revision announced
My favourite AutoCAD Command?
Shaan Hurley recently asked: “35 years of AutoCAD, what is your favorite command?” Mine is an ancient one that doesn’t even have a button in the current ribbon user interface: OOPS! OOPS predates the current Undo/Redo commands and, from my sketchy memory, was used to restore the geometry
This AutoCAD 2018 update is critical
Software Updates, Service Patches, Bug Fixes. Call them what you will they come around fairly frequently. However, this AutoCAD 2018 & AutoCAD LT 2018 update for an earlier update comes with a rare instruction to install this month! Check out Heidi’s blog post for more details and how to
Oh look, it is 2018 already
An Easter surprise ‘present’ from Autodesk!
Autodesk University
Bravo Carl Bass
Not all CEOs can be Carl Bass, bravo for saying this (screenshot below) (about Donald Trump)