Shopping for a laptop (not for me!) recently it was good to see 64 bit OS installed on all but entry level products. Given that level of acceptance in the consumer space I find it surprising to find some dedicated CAD workstations are still running the 32 bit flavour of
UPDATE 2012-09-12: The update has been reposted as Service Pack 1.1 UPDATE 2012-08-24: Posted on the download page today: “Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2013 has been temporarily removed due to a newly discovered fatal error. The AutoCAD team is actively working on resolving this
Coincidence is a strange thing. Last night I was playing around with some new TypePad Blog Themes and considering a major re-design. While that may happen it will take a while so I decided a quick “makeover” was needed. Although the design hasn’t changed I have reviewed the
Memories of Autodesk University 2011 when I saw this YouTube: AutoCAD Rocks with 7lions and eyewear designer Marcello Martino. It was great to meet Marcello at AU, seen in Shaan Hurley’s photo right. He created the red Autodesk University Glasses using AutoCAD Design Suite. The video shows the creation
Kate Morrical clears up a quirk of AutoCAD tool pallet block inserts which is user related. In short single click the tool, then place to get osnaps every time. LT Unlimited: Tool Palettes and Object Snaps The poster was confused as to why blocks inserted from a tool palette didn’
Not sure how I missed it but I’ve been busy catching up with the awesome StarTalk podcast back catalogue. It is where, to quote their own tagline: “Science, pop culture & comedy collide on StarTalk w/ astrophysicist & Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-hosts, celebrities &
There’s a handy App to manage your installed Autodesk Exchange Apps! You can check app status, install updates, access help, uninstall and rate them from one dialog. Get Autodesk Exchange App Manager free from the Autodesk Exchange website. UPDATE 2012-06-3: Must add, this is currently for AutoCAD
For AutoCAD users it’s nearly 2013. I’m quite pleased to see the r13 legacy or the silliness that is tridecaphobia didn’t have Autodesk change naming from 2012 to something daft like X3. You can preview some of the new features on Lynn Allen’s blog: AutoCAD 2013
At Autodesk University I had the chance to meet some fellow AutoCAD Bloggers and learn about a cool Autodesk initiative. Autodesk & Lenovo, teamed up to perform a, TV makeover show style, technology transformation for an Oregon Design Office - Alan Mascord Design Associates, Inc. Lenovo provided new workstations, Autodesk supplied
This started out as a review of Ellen Finkelstein’s AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011 Bible but she writes faster than I read . Not that I’m a slow reader but “Bible” is a hefty publication and has already been joined by an updated AutoCAD 2012 and AutoCAD LT
My desktop background is a random selection from my Flickr photos and changes hourly. Today I ’switched users’ to another account, to check something, and upon returning to my original logon found this AutoCAD error dialog. Perhaps you have to be an AutoCAD Insider to know why I found the
A text telling a user to try a generic “caduser” logon on a spare machine* is foiled by iOS Auto-correct. I suspect it will forever be the Cashew workstation from now on. * It was logon specific network problems preventing access to a shared folder so cashew worked fine.
