Autodesk University
It’s more than bizarre that only a couple of months after making the 28,000km return journey to Orlando for AU 2005 I’m about to do it again. Advanced Visual Technology are a U.K. based company and their first ever user conference is at Disney Resort – The
From 2008, no paper… Beehive.govt.nz - New era for land transactions in New Zealand. All survey and land title transactions in New Zealand will be lodged electronically from July 2008, Land Information Minister Pete Hodgson announced today… Beehive.govt.nz - New era for land transactions in New
Business Week have a brief but interesting interview with new Autodesk CEO, Carl Bass. There is a re-cap of his of his journey to the top job at Autodesk which included being fired by former CEO Carol Bartz. This is surely an unusual tactic for advancing your career! It also
This is not about CAD software but is a useful read for anyone involved in creating, training or using software. Scott Adams (The Dilbert Blog) deletes 500 comments from his blog thinking they were draft copies of the published comments. Often reality and user perception can differ with disastrous results.
CAD and BIM General
It's from a Microsoft Flight Simulator related blog, so games focused, but there is some useful info on the Microsoft Windows Vista DirectX Graphics system changes. The Little Wheel Goes in Back : What I Know About Vista. The Little Wheel Goes in Back : What I Know About Vista
CAD and BIM General
I was going to write about this but Randall has said it all already. Smooth Transitions at Autodesk: Bass to President and CEO; Bartz to Executive Chairman - aecnews.com. Smooth Transitions at Autodesk: Bass to President and CEO; Bartz to Executive Chairman - aecnews.com So, what about an
CAD and BIM General
Early attempts with Pocket PC’s for on-site CAD mark-up struggled to cope with memory capacity and performance limitations. DualCor Technologies, Inc have announced The DualCor cPC – a combination Tablet PC and Windows Mobile Hand-held device which promises to solve that by offering portability, connectivity and power. It uses twin
CAD and BIM General
All Points Blog notice an interesting recent acquisition by Microsoft; Microsoft Acquires GeoTango - All Points Blog. In a very quiet note on its website, GeoTango noted on December 23 that the Canadian visualisation company was acquired by Microsoft. GeoTango is known for its 3D visualisation and content development tools.
CAD and BIM General
Ray Ozzie , Microsoft Chief Technical Officer, writes about the year that’s winding down and what’s ahead in his post Looking back, looking forward . It’s an interesting review and glimpse of what Mic...
Bentley
Randall Newton comments on Why Bentley Seems Invisible to AutoCAD Users. It’s an interesting view of a company I know little about. Is that because I’m an AutoCAD/ADT user? Bentley Systems sheds its low profile (Philadelphia Business Journal) Via AEC news.com
CAD and BIM General
Seems to be more than a few people trying to analyse and understand how blogging is impacting the CAD industry. In a post on PR, Marketing and the Business of CAD Blog Rachael Dalton-Taggart picks AutoCAD (Autodesk) as currently leading CAD blogging (by number of corporate and independent blogs). At
AutoCAD
In September 2004 I blogged about a free MindManager for AEC Add-In. This allowed Autodesk Design Web Format (DWF) files to be integrated into MindManager Maps. It was a technology demonstration from Mindjet rather than a release candidate product but showed the potential of combining CAD and Map information to
