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I have posted here the white paper "Best Practices for AutoCAD Migration" because a couple have had issues when downloading it from the Autodesk FTP server. This white paper covers many of the best practices to follow in order to make migrations much more easy.
Cheers,
-Shaan
The next SFAUG meeting will take place on Monday, May 3rd and will be dedicated to AutoCAD. Shawn Gilmour from Autodesk will present the new release AutoCAD 2005.
Doorprizes
Time and place:
May 3rd, 6-8pm.
SFSU Downtown Center
425 Market Street, room 2601/2602
More Information on SFAUG see http://www.sfaug.org/
I will be there along with a few other Autodeskers to assist and answer any questions people may have. Please introduce yourself to me as I always enjoy meeting local users of Autodesk products and understanding how they use our products.
Don’t miss it.
Cheers,
-Shaan
If you are interested in enrolling to be considered for the next autodesk Inventor eBeta, the enrollment is now posted.
From: http://betaprograms.autodesk.com/betaweb.htm
Autodesk Inventor® Beta Opportunity
If you are interested in participating in this Beta program, please fill out the registration page with your contact information. All participants who are accepted into the program will be contacted via email with instructions on how to download a Beta version once it becomes available.
- Please use your business email and
information to participate.- Please do not use free email accounts such as hotmail.com or yahoo.com as that can disqualify your participation in the beta program.
- Failure to enter the below listed code exactly on the enrollment process may prevent your account from being approved.
Enrollment Opened 04/28/04
Click Here To EnrollCode: CROSSFIRE
Posted
04/28/04
Are you aware that the Autodesk Inventor® Team now have their own blog?
http://autodesk.blogs.com/in_the_machine/
The other day I was passing through the Autodesk Civic Center lobby and saw ADT power user, author, and trainer Paul Aubin standing there. I said "howdy" and then proceeded to show him around my office and the hardware lab and grab a bite to eat. He was here doing some training. It is always wise to keep our staff up to date on our products and usage from an outside expert since we dont all work in design offices.
Cheers,
-Shaan
Lee Ambrosius has written some tools to work with the new AutoCAD 2005 feature Background Masking and posted beta versions on his AutoCAD related blog "Beyond the UI". Lee is a wealth of information and tools for AutoCAD.
LInk to Lee's post with the download of the tools:http://hyperpics.blogs.com/beyond_the_ui/2004/04/background_mask_1.html
The tools:
Cheers,
-Shaan
I would like to introduce and welcome the Inventor Team to the world of blogging. It was so easy to convince them of the value of blogging.
In The Machine Blog Link: http://autodesk.blogs.com/in_the_machine/
I am also working on other teams to start publishing tid bits of knowledge, tips and tricks, and product info to a blog. It is as easy as writing an email in an online mail program. The ability to immediately publish to an audience and it naturally spreads via aggregators and links around the world without any programming or red tape is powerful. It is like a view to the inside track with up to the minute fresh information in many cases. The blog also allows for some more personal contact with customers and fellow technology freaks. I cannot tell you how many emails I have received directly from this blog and the content but there have been many and some great friendships. It is also about benefiting the reader with tips and information they can use or were not aware of.
I just found out that many have started reading my blog on their Yahoo home pages as you can add a RSS feed on your Yahoo home page. Steven Papke of VizDepot.com was also going to add this blogs RSS feeds to his great Viz resource web site.
Cheers,
Shaan
From Robin: "Inspired by your Viz Gallery have started my own CAD Gallery containing a mix of old & new work + some CAD play stuff."
Robin also mentioned that Typepad may support DWF files and I will connect with them to see what can be done to expedite this. Imagine Blog hosted DWF galleries!
Check out this blog at: http://rcd.typepad.com/
If you know more CAD related blogs, please email me the links.
Cheers,
-Shaan
The Autodesk web site has now been updated with the updated AutoCAD Migration Tools. There is also a migration best practices document.
http://www.autodesk.com/migrationtools
Best Practices for AutoCAD Migration PDF (62 KB)
Tools includedThe following four tools are included in the Autodesk Customization Conversion Tools download:
1. AutoLISP Compatibility Analyzer details AutoCAD® 2004 and AutoCAD® 2005 compatibility issues found in AutoLISP and Menu LISP files. AutoLISP Compatibility Analyzer searches for known AutoCAD 2004 and AutoCAD 2005 compatibility issues. When an issue is found, an explanation of the compatibility issue and suggestions on how to correct it are provided.
2. Command Alias (PGP) Porter designed to help you bring your custom command aliases from previous versions of AutoCAD into AutoCAD 2004 or AutoCAD 2005. You can also use this tool to add, replace, or remove command aliases from any AutoCAD PGP file.
3. ScriptPro takes AutoCAD scripting to a new level with an easy-to-use interface, logging, reusable project files, enhanced scripting with new keywords and utilities, and robust error recovery. Using ScriptPro you can apply a set of commands to multiple drawings by simply specifying a script file and the list of drawings that you would like to apply the script to.
4. Layer State Converter allows you to convert between the layer states created by LMAN (one of the AutoCAD® Express Tools) and the saved layer states introduced in AutoCAD® 2000i software. To use Layer State Converter, type one of the following commands on the AutoCAD command line:
CONVERTLS - Converts AutoCAD layer states to LMAN layer states.
CONVERTLMAN - Converts LMAN layer states to AutoCAD layer states.
Terry over at Dotsoft has done it once again with Toolpac 8.0 for AutoCAD. He has packed over 675 tools to increase productivity in AutoCAD into his new release of the popular ToolPac 8.0 for AutoCAD.
For more info see the ToolPac website:
http://www.dotsoft.com/toolpac.htm
Cheers,
-Shaan
Tutorial on the new AutoCAD 2005 feature, Tables.
by Alireza Parsai of http://www.cadpanel.com/
Click the following link to view the tutorial
http://www.cadpanel.com/trainees/2005tables/040425tables2005.htm
Thanks Alireza for all of your great tutorials available on your web site and caddigest.com.
Cheers,
-Shaan
I was told about a store in Marin named The Marin Brazil Store. I was able to get my new favorite soda from Brazil and many other things I got hooked on during my recent trip to Brazil.
Cheers,
-Shaan
Beyond Megapixels - Part I
By Joe Marney thetechlounge.com
This is a great article and the author promises more. He clearly explains why you should not be sucked in by the number of megapixels in digital cameras today. A 5 megapixel camera can be better than a new 8 megapixel camera.
I just purchased a Canon S1 which is 3.2MP but has an awesome optical zoom and built in image stabilizer to prevent those common blurred images because of moiving the camera when shooting. I had to get a new camera because my Canon S45 was with me on a recent kayaking trip and fell in seawater with me.
-Shaan
Now some quotes from the article to peak your interest.
"An 8 megapixel outputs a larger, higher resolution image than the 6 megapixel cameras and is therefore superior, right? Wrong."
"A photosite (one of the millions of receptors on a sensor that capture each pixel) on an APS sized sensor are larger than a photosite on a 2/3” sized sensor, and due to its larger size, it can capture light more easily. This light is digitized into the information that makes up your final image. Analogously, imagine 8 million 16oz cups versus 6 million 5-gallon buckets that are all filled with water. The water is then poured into two rectangular reservoirs measuring 300 feet by 150feet. While the area of water in the two reservoirs is equal, the water collected from the 5-gallon buckets is much, much deeper."
One of the artles reader's comments to the article adds more data:
"One of the things to take note, is alot of the current 8 Megapixels Pro-sumer cameras on the market right now (Canon Pro1, Sony 828, Olympus 8080[not sure], etc) Use the same Sony 5MP Sensor. The sensor itself is actually 5MP but produces an 8MP result. Furthermore the smaller sensor size on the pro-sumer cameras increase the noise, chromatic abberations and other things, it also kills the ability to create a shallow DOF. "
Go read the article - Link to Article
I had a family of possums wake me and my family up around 3AM this morning. There were three baby possums running around my yard. I went to take some photos and they turned out to be more curious than I was. I kept a sock on my hand to prevent my scent from being on the baby possums so that their mother would not reject them with human scent. I took a few photos then set them on their way to find their mother.
Cheers,
-Shaan
The Autodesk DWF Composer product website is www.autodesk.com/dwfcomposer.
You can purchase the product through Autodesk resellers or at http://www.autodesk.com/store for $99!
You can even upgrade the full Volo View 2 to Composer for $49.
See what Mark Douglas of MKM did with DWF and Hyperlinks Link to Article
Autodesk DWF Composer Overview
Improve the efficiency and speed of the entire design review process—review, markup, and revision—with Autodesk®DWF™ Composer. Built around the DWF™ (Design Web Format™) file format and developed specifically for engineering design data, DWF Composer helps you reduce costs, errors, and cycle times by keeping the whole process digital.Facilitate team communication and increase productivity with easy-to-use DWF and DWG file viewing and printing, round-tripping of markups directly back into the AutoCAD® 2005 family of products, comprehensive redlining and annotation tools, complete sheet set organization, and powerful status-tracking capabilities.
Faster, More Efficient Collaboration and Review
By enabling team members to work with electronic sheet sets, Autodesk DWF Composer streamlines the review process. Even design professionals unfamiliar with CAD will find it easy to use the DWF Composer tools to review, mark up, and revise sheet sets and communicate changes to other members of the project team.
Review
Mark Up
Revise
Integrated Markups Only Autodesk DWF Composer supports complete round-tripping of markups, annotations, and other changes into the AutoCAD 2005 family of software products. You never have to reenter information. The designer can then go through all the comments on the sheet set and incorporate changes or initiate another round of reviews. The DWF Composer markup capabilities combine with the navigation capabilities of AutoCAD 2005 to make tracking changes easy.
DWF for Design Data
DWF is the way to go for sharing design information, because the file size is smaller and faster to transmit than either native design file formats or widely known alternatives like PDF. DWF files can be as small as one-tenth the size of PDF files. And unlike JPG, TIF, or PDF, they retain the intelligent design data of the original drawing. The result? Members of your extended team see exactly what you intended.DWG Viewing
You can use DWF Composer to review and mark up drawings, maps, and models in DWF or DWG files, because DWF Composer includes functionality for viewing and plotting DWG files. Since the DWG viewer is built on the same viewing technology as AutoCAD software, you are assured of full drawing fidelity. View and plot DWG files and then publish them as DWF files for quick and easy distribution and design review even by non-AutoCAD users.
Workflow and Productivity ToolsDWF Composer provides a variety of tools for an expedient and successful review process. Add, delete, and reorganize DWF files and sheets, including timelines, images, specifications, and other project information, to create discipline-specific sheet sets or archives. Change review status and quickly address open issues by selecting Question, For Review, or Done in the Markup Properties dialog box. Use markup tools to add comments to drawing sets electronically. The Markup Tab of the Drawing Set Navigator automatically records markups as you make them.
Below is an image of Doug Look the Autodesk DWF Composer Product Manager in a DWF Composer box.
If you are interested in beta testing these products, make sure to use the code when enrolling on the second page. Also we require that you use a identifiable email account not one of the free ones like hotmail or yahoo.
Cheers,
-Shaan
From: http://betaprograms.autodesk.com/betaweb.htm
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AutoCAD® Mechanical & Mechanical Desktop 2005 Beta Opportunity
If you are interested in participating in this Beta program, please fill out the registration page with your contact information. All participants who are accepted into the program will be contacted via email with instructions on how to download a Beta version once it becomes available.
Enrollment Opened 04/22/04
Click Here To Enroll
Code: PATHFINDER
Posted 04/22/04
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AutoCAD® Electrical 2005 Beta Opportunity
If you are interested in participating in this Beta program, please fill out the registration page with your contact information. All participants who are accepted into the program will be contacted via email with instructions on how to download a Beta version once it becomes available.
Enrollment Opened 04/16/04
Click Here To Enroll
Code: Yukon
Posted 04/16/04
I have started some other image galleries including the Viz Image Gallery (http://autodesk.blogs.com/photos/viz_gallery/).
Please feel free to email me images you want to show off that used Autodesk Viz. I also need you to state in the email that you release the images for use by Autodesk and also what you want in the credits.
There is also an Architectural Desktop Gallery by Chis Yanchar coming soon.
Sincerely,
Shaan Hurley
Technical Marketing Mgr / Beta Mgr.
PTD Group (AutoCAD and Viz)
Autodesk, Inc.
Read more on Chris Yanchar's blog Between the Walls about the new Viz Release.
I also posted a photo of Autodesk Viz 2005 Product Manager Michael Woodcox celebrating the launch and shipping of the product in my Daily Grind Photo Blog:
To enroll to be considered for this eBeta opportunity go to:
http://betaprograms.autodesk.com/betaweb.htm then follow the instructions especially the code name.
Cheers,
-Shaan
From Mark Douglas MKM & Associates
"MKM is excited about the power DWF will bring to its office. We look forward to the day when we can jetison PDF and use DWF exclusively for many great reasons. Here's just one....
Open the below DWF file in the free Autodesk DWF Viewer. It will open directly to a Plan sheet. Here you will see there are Detail bubbles. If you CTRL-Click the Detail bubble it will HYPERLINK you RIGHT to that detail Number on another Sheet. Using Autodesk DWF Composer has cut our Back check times in Half!! This was sooo easy with a little Lisp code and Robert/Myself's brain power. Plus has some cool AutoCAD tables in it."
"LISP Used to link the detail bubbles to the hyperlinked details: Here is a explanation on what it does and how it works for our Company. We typically name our drawings. Job Number first then the Sheet name. So it looks like this.....040001S1. 040001S2..and so on. Well the code strips out the information from the DWGNAME variable and makes. 040001 & S1. Then takes the Number from the detail Bubble. Say S2. Then Puts them together. 040001S2. Then creates a hyperlink to the drawing. Using Misha's Convert Hyperlink to DWF then you're all set. here is the Code I use. It originated from some other code, then modified to fit our needs.The Bottom part of the Code after the Hyperlink part is from Misha, A little too complicated for me. But works!!"
Autodesk Introduces Powerful Visualization Software That Takes Conceptual Design to the Next Level
Autodesk VIZ 2005 is for designers who need the power to realistically explore design concepts, communicate design intent, and easily share work with clients and prospects.
Read more in the press release.
Click Here
New Whitepaper to be posted on http://www.autodesk.com/autocad in the next week or so.
A successful network installation of AutoCAD® 2004 and AutoCAD 2004–based software products depends not only on good planning, but also on sufficient testing of product functionality in a real-world business production environment. This white paper outlines considerations in successfully migrating from AutoCAD® 2000i to AutoCAD 2004 at Sasaki Associates, a large, multidisciplinary design firm with offices in Watertown, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, California, and about 160 CAD users companywide.
"EVEN AFTER 12 YEARS, the most frequently requested articles are those on paper space. So, after many moons (and many pleas from readers), it's time to dust off these tips and update them to reflect the new features in AutoCAD 2005.
A great deal of confusion still surrounds paper space, as evidenced by the extremely large turnout at Autodesk University for the "Lost in Paper Space" class (perfectly taught by Dan Abbott). There are also many different theories regarding the proper route to perfect paper space. I'll attempt to present the pros and cons of all sides and let you decide what works best for you."
Check out the updated information from Ellen Finkelstein on AutoCAD 2005 at her website. Ellen is the author of the very popular AutoCAD Bible books.
Features Shown:
Tables
Fields
Sheet Sets
Command tool palettes
Layer groups and descriptions
Text background masks
Trimming hatches and hatching almost closed areas
Plotting in the background
ZOOM Object option
New COPY command default
http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/autoCAD.html
Cheers,
-Shaan
Check out the Avatech Solutions eDemo list.
Examples of the available eDemos which are web videos that play in the Windows Media Player:
A first look at the latest version of AutoCAD. Find out how new features and capabilities are going to help your bottom line in this exclusive new demonstration.
See the benefits of AutoCAD Electrical in this demonstration by one of our technical experts. He'll show you the intelligent electrical controls design, the automation of the electrical controls design process, and how AutoCAD electrical is the fast, flexible, and easy solution to your Electrical design needs.
Building Systems Test Drive Webcast Recording
Avatech gets you on the road to success with this session to show you the best features of Building Systems . Before you get behind the wheel of Building Systems we’ll steer you through:Best practices for a speedy implementation of new software
Tips and tricks of Building Systems
A sneak-peak of the workshop on the 30-day trial software
Revit Test Drive Webcast Recording
Avatech gets you on the road to success with this session to show you the best features of Revit . Before you get behind the wheel of Revit we’ll steer you through:Best practices for a speedy implementation of new software
Tips and tricks of Revit
A sneak-peak of the workshop on the 30-day trial software
Inventor Test Drive Webcast Recording
Avatech gets you on the road to success with this session to show you the best features of Inventor. Before you get behind the wheel of Inventor we’ll steer you through:Best practices for a speedy implementation of new software
Tips and tricks of Inventor
A sneak-peak of the workshop on the 30-day trial software
Revit Webcast Recording Available
If you’re not familiar with Autodesk Revit, this streaming presentation is the perfect opportunity to gain in-depth understanding of its many revolutionary features, including:Parametric change technology—when you make a change anywhere in your building project, it’s automatically updated everywhere
Fluid interaction with other Autodesk software
Immediate increase in productivity
Superior design and documentation capabilities View Part 1 of the presentation
View Part 2 of the presentation
View Part 3 of the presentation
You can order a free AutoCAD® 2005 Trial CD-ROM or a run the fully operational online AutoCAD® 2005 streaming trial.
AutoCAD® 2005 30-Day Trial CD
(This offer is valid only in the United States and Canada. For countries outside the United States and Canada, contact your local Autodesk Authorized Reseller)
Link to Order Form
AutoCAD® 2005 Streaming Trial
(Stream a full version of AutoCAD® to your desktop for 30 consecutive days at no cost. Create, view, save, and plot your own files and fully experience exactly how AutoCAD software operates in your work environment.)
Link to Streaming Trial
Make sure to have a look at the documentation to see what some of the new features are.
Link to Features Documents
Comparing AutoCAD 2005 with Previous Releases PDF White Paper
Cheers,
-Shaan
From Misha (Misha Belilovskiy) of Autodesk who posted this trick in a reply to a discussion thread in the public Autodesk discussion group for AutoCAD 2005.
You can't do it using AutoCAD UI but it is possible if you are not afraid editing your Tool Palette source ATC file. Here is how you do it.
If you would like to replace Auxiliary scale in tool properties (for instance with LTSCALE) you can do the following:
Cheers,
-Shaan
I have recently received multiple requests from people for some printed or online resources geared for MicroStation Users migrating to AutoCAD. I even got the request from customers in Latin America while on my trip there.
Is anyone aware of any available materials? If there are not any, perhaps this is an opportunity for an author.
From the basic they call them levels and we call them layers up to ther more detailed issues like MDI differences, reference file differences, and more.
Please email me at shaan@autodesk.com.
Thank you,
Shaan
Nice online article showing the HIDE command options and results.
Also check out the site http://www.archidigm.com
Cheers,
-Shaan
Are you aware that you can combine multiple network licenses into one license? If you have a mix of network licensed products, you can combine them into a single license file for running a mix of licensed products or releases.
This could also be the products you upgraded in Autodesk Subscription program. Then when you roll out the new version you could continue to use the prior release until all your users have migrated or moved to a new project to start the new release.
Knowledge Base Article from http://support.autodesk.com
Link to Knowlege Base Article
http://support.autodesk.com/getDoc.asp?id=TS65928
Cheers,
-Shaan
Scott Sheppard of Océ just posted the following to the public Autodesk DWF discussion group for the Océ Publisher for DWF to LDF:
"Our QA is testing a release candidate now.
http://folders.buzzsaw.com/constructionmanagement/public/OceClientTools.exe?public
The file size is 15.104.512 bytes. The version is 1.6.1.619. Report any
problems directly to me as the rest of the Océ organization will become of
this release when marketing issues a "Go Bulletin."
Cheers,
-Shaan
As a true AutoCAD master, Lee wrote and shared a quick LISP for the new AutoCAD 2005 feature Background Mask.
Link to Lee's article with a LISP file
Cheers,
-Shaan
Michael Beall of cadtutor.net has posted his April 2004 Grab Bag of tips and tricks for AutoCAD. It is definitely a nice resource for tips and he has a very easily digestible approach to training. He also has a newsletter titled The AutoCAD Toolbelt which is also a very worthwhile and valuable AutoCAD resource.
http://www.cadtutor.net/michael/index.html#
http://www.cadtutor.net/acad/index.html
Cheers,
-Shaan
Update:
Cadtutor.net is actually run by David Watson, a CAD professor at University of Greenwich in England and Michael writes some content for this site.
From the press release today
"Autodesk Design Web Format for Document Exchange Now Supported by HP Large-Format Printing Solutions"
"SAN RAFAEL, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK - News), the world's leading design software and digital content company, today announced HP's support for the Autodesk® Design Web Format(TM) (DWF(TM)), the optimum file format for the distribution, communication and printing of engineering and design documents. The two companies will combine HP's leadership in large-format printers with Autodesk's expertise in design and engineering software to offer a highly efficient method of exchanging and printing design documents throughout the engineering project lifecycle. Together, HP and Autodesk will leverage their knowledge to address the requirements of building, manufacturing and infrastructure design professionals who need to continually improve productivity and simplify the process of printing engineering documents."
"As a leader in developing design applications for architects, engineers and other design professionals, Autodesk is qualified to understand the specific demands for sharing rich design data," Guayente San Martin, product marketing manager, Inkjet Commercial Division, HP. "Autodesk shares our commitment to advance collaboration and print accuracy within engineering processes, and DWF offers an ideal method for everyone involved in the workflow to exchange, view and print design documents with the highest fidelity."
Cheers,
-Shaan
From:
Shawn Gilmour
autodesk
Once a year I jump on my bicycle and raise some money for a good cause that helps people in our community. This year I will be riding for The American Lung Association as they celebrate their 100th anniversary. I will be riding in their Bike for Breath ride on Saturday, May 29 in their 65 mile ride. My goal this year is to raise $2500 in sponsorship money and that is where you can help. By donating to this great organization you will help support people with asthma, emphysema, lung cancer and other respiratory problems. They also provide information, materials and programs to keep kids educated on the hazards of smoking.
I ride for this cause because my father passed away from lung cancer 15 years ago. With your tax deductible donations I hope to help the lung association fight lung related diseases.
How do you donate?
The easiest way to donate using a credit card. I am riding in the Bike for Breath - The Two Rock Ride. Select Sponsor a rider and enter my name “Shawn Gilmour”. Follow the instructions from there.
I will be collecting your donation before the ride. (The ride is on May 29th)
Any donation is welcome.
Please take a few minutes to sponsor me so that you can make a difference in someone’s life.
Sincerely,
Shawn Gilmour
Platform Technology Division
autodesk
shawng@autodesk.com
DWF Writer 2
The Autodesk® DWF™ Writer is a certified Microsoft® Windows® system printer driver, so you can publish DWF files by simply selecting Autodesk DWF Writer from your standard Printer Name drop-down list in any Windows application.
The DWF Writer also works with other CAD applications that do not offer built-in DWF publishing, such as Bentley® Microstation and Solidworks®.
DWF™ Writer requires one of the following operating systems: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home or Professional; Windows 2000; Windows 2003 Server.
I even showed in a past post that I could produce DWF from MicroStation as well as even the old AutoCAD R12.
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2003/10/dwfwriter_2_bet.html
Cheers,
-Shaan
Update: Some such as Bentley may not want you to know you can print to DWF from their products as they removed my response to a post asking about DWF support in MicroStation on their discussion group mentioning the DWF Writer. In any case if someone wants to know if they can print to DWF from MicroStation, the answer is yes and it is much smaller than a PDF which is better suited for Word documents instead of design documents. There is a small free viewer available for download. The free DWF Viewer is located at: http://www.autodesk.com/dwfviewer-download
Give DWF a try you may find you prefer the DWF format for exchanging design documents more easily and in most cases much smaller and more visual fidelity than other electronic formats designed for other purposes.
Chris Yanchar wrote a very nice blog article on Timber Framing and ADT. It is always amazing to see what our customers do with our products and their success.
If you have an exciting or interesting use of our products or the products you design using our products, send me an email at shaan@autodesk.com with the subject line of "Blog" and the details and I will spotlight it in this far reaching blog with thousands of unique readers per day. This is the most active CAD/Autodesk related blog currently on the web.
Here are some screenshots (click thumbnail for larger image):
The Link to the Blog "Between the Walls" article
Cheers,
-Shaan
This benefit as well as others are detailed on the Autodesk Subscription web site and in the Subscription Program Guide which should have been included in your subscription welcome kit. So if you upgraded AutoCAD 2002 to AutoCAD 2005 on subscription, you can continue to use your AutoCAD 2002 seats as well as the AutoCAD 2005. At $420 for AutoCAD subscription it is a real bargain and cheaper than upgrading each year on 12 month upgrade cycles especially when you consider the other benefits such as web support and e-Learning content.
Autodesk® Subscription is the best way to stay current with the latest design technology-while gaining the benefits of simplified software management, easy budgeting, e-Learning, and web support.
For a fixed annual fee, you get access to software enhancements that keep your design tools up-to-date and make the most of your investment. Autodesk Subscription includes the following at no additional charge:
Access to all upgrades released during the subscription term Download of extensions for products under subscription Use of e-Learning lessons and knowledge assessments Web support for your Autodesk products under subscription (if included in your contract; not available for 3ds max) Use of previ
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