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The Autodesk website has had its out of season "Happy New Year make-over" for 2010. Many of the 2010 products are shipping including several* that matter to me: AutoCAD , AutoCAD Architecture , Autode...
This post has been in the draft folder for too long. While travelling recently I read a post on another blog about icoFX then remembered I'd never posted it! As part of preparing our AutoCAD Archit...
Shaan Hurley has taken over Chris Yanchar's "Between the Walls" AutoCAD Architecture blog as part of his Platform Technology Evangelist role. He'll still be between lines , when he's not between wa...
Kudos to the Revit Factory for sharing the process which went into a, much needed, overhaul of the Revit User Interface for 2010. Overall I think the ribbon is a huge step forward and working across s...
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...
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...
AutoCAD
In my "year review" post I mentioned reading SolidWorks blogs . Although I don't use it understanding the "other side" is handy when you're trying to share data. It paid off recently when I needed to...
An excellent post covering Layer Filters on Daily AutoCAD prompted me to share this tip about grouping similar types of filters. If you're not familiar with filters first read this, then pop back here...
Click through to Roopinder Tara's post, of interest to me were the comments on the visibility, or not, of AutoCAD Architecture, Revit database structures and the, inevitable, "what about Mac" question...
Hardly surprising, considering AutoCAD Architecture; Is bundled with the Revit Suite (essentially given away for the price of plain AutoCAD) Is rarely promoted, if at all, as a stand-alone ap...
It's been a long time since I seriously looked at Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) as a way of sharing design information. Since then both the standard itself and applications that use it have been through several generations of development. From the IFC Wiki; * The IFC represents a data
The Problem: Open a old project with AutoCAD Architecture 2008 (ACA). Create a new view, attempt to place it on a sheet, Crash! The Investigation: My usual approach with problem files is to t...
