It begins, nearly
Well, made it to Vegas and spent the day wandering around a few Casinos which meant visiting Paris, Venice, Treasure Island and Rio. Not bad for a days walk. Just registered for AU and met Shaan Hurle...
Well, made it to Vegas and spent the day wandering around a few Casinos which meant visiting Paris, Venice, Treasure Island and Rio. Not bad for a days walk. Just registered for AU and met Shaan Hurle...
Penn Teller were not very well known in New Zealand until their show “BULLSHIT!” was screened here. I love the show and often listen to Penn’s CBS Radio's Free FM podcast while working so the op...
I’m winding into prep mode for Autodesk University. Seems very strange as until recently I thought this would mean sitting on the wrong side of the world watching the blogs, wishing I was there. I fly...
About 30 years ago a Primary (Elementary) School Teacher encouraged a 10 year old boy, named Robin, to do a special science project based on flight. I can’t remember the detail but do remember buildin...
What has this got to do with this ?
In this conversation about Autodesk University 2006 from the Autodesk Discussion Group Melanie points out that to get the most out of AU you need to: “TAKE DETAILED NOTES!!! These classes are IN...
What would a blog that dishes up all on Autodesk cover? Autodesk evangelist Pete Kelsey blogs about all things Civil / Survey / GIS
AutoCAD
If you are managing AutoCAD this would be well worth a look. I’ve attended Robert’s CAD Manager sessions at AU and learning his approach to dealing with CAD Management and relating CAD Management to the rest of the business has been very useful. If you are attending AU
With almost 500 courses and 37 sessions running at the same time sometimes the toughest part about going to AU is deciding what to miss, you can’t be everywhere! In previous years my approach was to copy/paste the course schedule into a spreadsheet and use it’s filtering
Autodesk University
Autodesk University 2006 has a blog! I’ve attended AU 2004 (Las Vegas) and AU 2005 (Orlando) but won’t be able to get to AU 2006 as the AU Kiwi has been grounded this year It’s a long, expensive, way even if only 11,000 km to Vegas…
Viz/Max legend Ted Boardman has a new blog. I’ve attended a couple of his sessions at Autodesk University and totally recommend them. He has very practical approach to getting realistic results and wonderful presentation style, also apparent in his writing. If you are attending AU get in quick
Autodesk University is the place to learn about Autodesk software and also provides a great forum to network. While the presentations and tutorials, lab sessions are great the real value is meeting many fellow CAD users. You never know where that may lead, perhaps it will be a life changing