Last night I attended the Autodesk New Zealand Design Masters Quiz (2007 Launch event). It was a mix of serious, well mostly serious, software demonstrations and quiz show fun. “Pre-Quiz” Dealer and Customer presentations showcased the full product range with AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor and Map demo’s featuring in the
Is this a first for New Zealand? Wellington has seen a 3,500 tonne building on a train but taking a Building Ideas Show on the road is an unusual solution for a problem posed by New Zealand’s geography and population distribution. Faced with the challenge of presenting BIM
I just completed my installation Architectural Desktop 2007 at home. I started it up and it all worked fine until I tried to close a drawing. Hitting the X caused the processor to hit 100% and after about 30 seconds a fatal error. Thinking maybe it was a bad install
Details for the New Zealand Autodesk 2007 Launch event are on-line. It changes every year, as the format is refined, but this post about the 2006 event shows it goes far beyond the average software launch. Register now at the Autodesk NZ site. Autodesk New Zealand Design Masters Quiz * When:
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Space can represent many things as the image (right), from http://www.visualthesaurus.com shows. As Architectural Desktop & Building Systems evolved different requirements for measurement, display, grouping, and analysis led to a combination of objects, each with unique capabilities, simply to model and display 2D Area and 3D space;
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CAD drawings can look too precise but now with AutoCAD Visual Styles they don't have to
RSS is a powerful thing. Checking the blog feeds last night I notice someone is planning to be in Auckland on May 9th for the Autodesk Design Masters Event (2007 Launch)… * Since confirmed, pencil it in your diary, details to follow…
I ran, almost literally, into Ed Goldberg at Autodesk University and having read his articles over the years it was great to finally meet him in person. Even in the huge AU crowd, we met between sessions in the foyer, he stood out with his rather distinctive trademark hat! He
In the It's a visual world... post I mentioned that the new graphics in AutoCAD 2007 will place greater demands on PC graphics. You can tune the machine by selectively removing some of the more demanding settings, shadows especially, but a better card means a better experience. Besides
They say it's a visual world and that is the theme of the 2007 releases. Creating, editing, navigating around and rendering AutoCAD 3D has been made significantly easier, heck it’s just plain fun! To achieve this the AutoCAD has had a significant overhaul and this core benefits
Just getting used to the fact that it’s already March, where did the first two months of 2006 go?, then you find out it’s 2007 already! Not quite, but the new ‘07 AutoCAD based products are on the way. Check out Chris and Shaan’s posts with links
I’m not a fan of the “AutoCAD for Architects” tag that is being used for Autodesk Architectural Desktop but think this, from the website banner, is even worse: Better, doesn’t seem like a very impressive claim so here is my take on it: * Architectural Desktop isn’t AutoCAD.
