Be sure to register for a webcast with Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and Senior VP Amar Hanspal coming up this week. Last year I had the privilege of seeing a similar event live (a webcast without the web!) and the effort that goes into production was amazing. This year I’
Have you ever minimised AutoCAD (Windows 7 64) and not been able to maximise it from the taskbar? The button is live (glows when you hover), the preview shows the application and the full application window shows when you hover on the preview. Any attempt to maximise via the taskbar,
A couple of tweets between CAD authors @thecadgeek & @SWGeek (right) combined with a need to reprint a sheet, several times, prompted me to think about the paper wasted with CAD. I read the tweels and dreamed this post up while waiting for my car pool ride, how green is
UPDATE 2010-03-05: AutoCAD Tips Contest is Extended to Monday March 15th, 2010 and additional CAD/Revit e-book prizes added. Like the earlier announcement, it will be closed at 12 PM Jakarta time. Edwin, CAD Notes blog, has announced an AutoCAD Tips contest. He has authored an Indonesian AutoCAD blog since
I was checking some changes on my blog this evening and the Autodesk Exchange sidebar component caught my eye. It says Shaan Hurley, but I think its Travis? * This will probably only make sense to a few CAD bloggers, who were in San Francisco last February, and some guy called
Had a weird problem today where, in addition to the usual double click to zoom extents, just pressing and releasing the mouse wheel would cause a zoom extents. Not very helpful as every mouse wheel pa...
I think I've filed a few Type 4 CER (see below) reports to Autodesk but can only remember one. It was on a workstation, running a beta where CER is not optional and shows on re-start if you crash out,...
Yesterday, last Thursday , a couple of weeks ago * I spent the day at an Autodesk Solutions 2009 event. Over the day most of the 2010 product range was presented by industry specific resellers and a few customer presentations. The venue, Novotel Hotel - Ellerslie, was great with free parking and,
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This is my agenda for the Autodesk Solutions Day 2009 tomorrow. It starts out so neat but I know how it will end up. If you see someone scrawling illegible notes on a Tablet PC say hello!
1,683 days ago I joined the Autodesk beta portal MyFeedback.com. Today MyFeedback goes off-line forever, to be replaced by a new community on a new platform: http://beta.autodesk.com I was just...
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I had an AutoCAD license borrowed while upgrading the server to a new license file. Handing it back proved to be a problem because the lic had gone. A quick trip to the Autodesk Discussion Group revea...
Last week I presented to the Revit User Group Auckland about "ribbonisation". It was a background to the development of the Fluent User Interface, otherwise known as "the ribbon", based on several presentations I have seen over the years. I suspect it was possibly the only
