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
Back in 2007 I called " Align, the forgotten AutoCAD hero " as it can move, rotate and scale in one operation yet it didn't get a toolbar/ribbon button! Heidi has posted a great introduction showing t...
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...
I thought he was joking when he said: "I'm going to blog about my philosophy of 3D AutoCAD" then this appeared: William Le Couteur's Autocad Blog: 3D Drafting:My philosophy With which he crea...
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
Did Bill Gates miss an opportunity to make money? Find out in Part 3... Through the Interface: An interview with John Walker - Part 3 This is the third part of the series documenting my recent i...
The whole article is interesting but the quote, in bold , is a gem! Through the Interface: An interview with John Walker - Part 2 "And I think that in the entire history of the software indus...
Kean Walmsley has posted Part 1 of an interview with, AutoCAD founder, John Walker. It's an interesting look at the beginnngs of the company and John's view of it's development in the early, pre-Bartz...
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Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2009 based service packs, the “big” between release bug fixes, are out. This time they have been re-branded from Service Packs to Product Updates . What’s in a name, apart from c...
Having just wasted some money on the new(er) toy I arrived home to an email warning my CAD subscription was expiring soon . I read it thinking “They send that early, it’s not for months!” until I saw...
The AutoCAD Ribbon, like others , seems to evoke only strong reactions. You either love or hate the major component in the biggest AutoCAD interface overhaul since the shift from DOS to Windows. From...
Ok, maybe not quite 2009 but there are more than 30 pages, 6mb, of AutoCAD 2009 Tips Tricks available for download at Lynn’s blog. Lynn Allen's Blog: AutoCAD 2009 Tips and Tricks booklet has arr...
