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AUGI AutoCAD Wish List Top Ten Cycle One February 2009

I want to thank AUGI’s President Mark Kiker, the dedicated and hard working AUGI AutoCAD Wish List volunteer Brenda Richardson, and the AUGI membership for another great cycle of nomination and voting for the AutoCAD Wish List. While I cannot provide details on future development publicly, I can say you will be pleased at our listening and knocking more items off the Wish List. You, the user of our products are vital to defining the direction and future functionality of our products.  We at Autodesk sincerely appreciate your helping shape the future of Autodesk products!

1. Transparency of Objects Submitted by Brian Fryhover
2. Plot All Layout Tabs Without Using Publish Submitted by Candice LePorte
3. Fade Colors of XREF Submitted by Girish Gohil
4. Add More Parameters and Constraints to Dynamic Blocks Submitted by James Hitt
5. Turn Off Objects Regardless of Layer Submitted by John Semanko
6. Double Click in a Viewport to Exit Viewport Submitted by Karl Goulding
7. Multiple XCLIP of XREF Submitted by Laura Smagin
8. Intersection Snap on Solids Submitted by Forrest Hoffnar
9. Select Like Objects Submitted by Dave Fox
10. Change Properties Across Multiple Sheet Submitted by Gary Murphy
11. Send Shaan on a free trip to visit Hawaii CAD Camp with Yoshi Honda, Brazil, India, Kuwait, China, Turkey, Japan, Singapore, and Down Under to meet with AUGI members and give free refreshments and share AutoCAD Tips and Tricks.

OK so I added number 11 myself but the remaining 10 are great wish list items for AutoCAD.

Detailed Voting List for 2009 Cycle One http://www.augi.com/autocad/results.asp?cycle=ACAD010

AUGI membership is free and there are many many benefits to the membership. Get involved and network, Share and Learn. Don't just sit on the sidelines, make a difference.

Your Wish, Is Our Command!

Shaan Hurley
Autodesk Platform Technology Evangelist

Shaan's Digital Design Rodeo Roundup Resources

I had the pleasure to present to the Seattle based PSAUG Puget Sound Autodesk Users Group last week. I called this my Shaan's Digital Design Rodeo Roundup Seattle 2009 as a fun theme name as I am a digital design rodeo clown with my warped humor and presentation style and loving the live Q&A even the tough questions with horns. I promised I would provide my resource links to all that attended and am sharing below.

Resources

Shaan’s blog http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/
Shaan’s on Twitter http://twitter.com/mrcadman

AutoCAD 2010 Help Documentation and Resources now available online

AutoCAD 2010 Website http://www.autodesk.com/autocad

• AutoCAD Exchange http://autocad.autodesk.com
• Autodesk  Blogs http://blogs.autodesk.com
• AUGI http://www.augi.com
• AutoCAD 2010 Learning Path http://www.autodesk.com/autocad-learningpath
• AutoCAD 2010 New Features Workshop
  http://www.autodesk.com/autocad-newfeatureworkshop
• AutoCAD 2010 Tutorials http://www.autodesk.com/autocad-tutorials
• AutoCAD 2010 Cue Cards http://www.autodesk.com/autocad-cuecards
• Online Version of AutoCAD 2010 Help http://www.autodesk.com/autocad-help
• Autodesk Official Training Courseware http://www.autodesk.com/learningtools
• AutoCAD TrueView ~ DWG Viewing and Conversion  Free  http://www.autodesk.com/dwgtrueview
• Autodesk Design Review 2010: Free http://www.autodesk.com/designreview
• Autodesk Labs http://labs.autodesk.com

Autodesk Assistance Program Offers Help to Displaced Workers

If you would like me to present to your group in person or over the web please contact me for a fun time covering most of the AutoCAD based products.

Cheers,
Shaan
Platform Technology Evangelist 
Direct      415 507-8432
Mobile     415 328-6747
Email: shaan.hurley@autodesk.com
Twitter http://twitter.com/mrcadman

AutoCAD 2010 Tips and Tricks by Lynn Allen

AUGI and Lynn Allen of Autodesk released a sneak peek at the new AutoCAD 2010 Tips on the AUGI AutoCAD forums. All it takes is free AUGI registration and you get more than the Tips and Tricks, you get so much more with AUGI.

AUGI Members Only Exclusive! - AutoCAD 2010 Tips & Tricks

Cheers,
Shaan

Do you have a webcam, a microphone, and want virtual beer?

If you do, how about attending an   impromptu town hall meeting of AutoCAD based product users discussing various topics,exchanging ideas and tips and getting to know each other. Just an experiment to figure out the rough edges and what works.

Is anyone interested in seeing each others faces live in a webcam and hearing their voices in a virtual meeting of CAD and Design Professionals?Think of it as a live discussion group with faces and voices. Could be a great deal of fun, or a fun awkward bumpy experiment.

Of course time selection would be critical to allow for the most around the globe to participate so perhaps a Thursday mid morning.

One more clarification is that there will not be the ability to serve pizza and beer, so it will be a Bring Your Own.Virtual Refreshment And Virtual Pizza “BYOVRAVP”. I know someone will ask but please do not bring your Virtual Hookah pipe. Physical clothes not virtual are required.

Maybe this wild and crazy idea is all a result of being snowed in again and getting some cabin fever from being cooped up in the basement office far too long.

If you would be interested in participating and think I should go full steam ahead towards the first inaugural event, just reply with suggestions on format and topics in the comments to this post.

It does sound fun!

Cheers,
Shaan

Autodesk University 2009 Call for Class Proposals

If you want to teach a class or lab session on any Autodesk product at Autodesk University 2009, now is your time to get your overview paper on your proposed class submitted.

Call for AU 2009 Proposals Open until April 30, 2009. Submit today!

Yes it is time to begin thinking about AU again and this year it will be held in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay. This is the top multi industry design professional training and networking event! In addition to great classes and meeting top peers in your industry there is quite a bit of fun to balance out things out.There is a photo gallery from Autodesk University 2008 Flickr photo set to see some of the fun and photos of this large event.

I hope to see you at AU!
Shaan

AUGI Wish Lists Voting Period February 2009

It is that time again to vote on AUGI member nominations to the Autodesk product wish lists. If you want something to be considered in a future product version this is one of your chances to move it up the list in priority as Autodesk takes the wish list very seriously.

No excuses just go vote as it only takes seconds. If you are not an AUGI member yet, membership is free and many benefits come with membership. Join AUGI Now!

AUGI Wish List Page

• AutoCAD ballot
• AutoCAD Civil 3D ballot
• Autodesk Inventor ballot
• Autodesk Revit Architecture ballot

Cheers,
Shaan

2008 What a Year

I am in my final week of holiday vacation (all of Autodesk is) as well as the last Monday of the year 2008. What better time to reflect on the year. There were many highs and lows for 2008 in my life I thought I would mention a few.

The year was filled with travel to visit friends, Autodesk product user groups, and customers around the world including the countries of Brazil, China, Kuwait, Turkey, Kuwait, and UAE in addition to all over the North America. I now have a full passport and need to get new pages added or I will be left unable to travel Internationally. I really enjoy speaking with users of Autodesk software around the world and learning how they use the software and what they design.

Other highlights in no particular order:

• Getting milk and cookies in my room from the AU2008 Team.
• Meeting  celebrity Autodesk customers Jay Leno and Eddie Paul.
• Attended and presented at 3 Autodesk Universities this year China, Japan, and Las Vegas. This makes the total AU events I have attended 14.
• The First Blogger Social at AU2008 was a success and will be even bigger and better next year.
• Traveled with the Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture for a year including a visit with entertainer Jay Leno and then gave it to the real Matt Murphy at AU2008.
• Made so many new friends around the world.
• Presented at FOCUS Kuwait, and over 500 people attended. Thank you Binu!
• Presented in Istanbul, and while in Turkey I visited Cappadocia and experienced the wonderful food, people, and scenery. Thank you to my 3 Turkish friends Can, Orhan, and Erhan of the Daily AutoCAD Blog!
• Had a great time with members of AUGI Japan in Yokohama Japan and a spectacular trip to Kamakura with a traditional Japanese lunch included.
• Meeting the Techsmith Team who develop the two software tools I have used almost daily for 12 years.
• I continue to work with some of the smartest and most creative people in the design and visualization industry. This is not a suck up, it is absolutely true. My success is directly related to those that design, develop, test Autodesk software as well as the awesome customers that design amazing things using our software.
• 2008 was the 10th year anniversary of me working for Autodesk and since I left a mechanical design seat out there in the design world. I received my gold badge.
• Received the top hit count and visitors of any Autodesk blog, and many Autodesk web sites. This blog celebrated 5 years and had 312 posts this year and millions of readers by both web and RSS. Thank You!
• Got the additional Autodesk title of Platform Technology Evangelist which is a fancy title for a geek.
• There are so many design related blogs and the number of Autodesk product blogs continues to climb.
• My oldest son started college.

Lows of the year:

• In November I had a blast, literally when my gas fireplace malfunctioned and blew up with me in front of it.
• Rough personal start to 2008 but after many trips hiking in the deserts of Arizona and Utah got things all worked out. The desert and hiking is one of the most therapeutic environments to get a clear head and to think.
• I still have many photos to process and publish.

As I spend the remaining few days of 2008 on holiday, I am spending that priceless time relaxing with my family as well as some fun with the kids sledding on the large amount of snow we received here in Northern Utah.

  

Have a very happy and safe New Years,
Shaan

AUGI Board of Directors Election Results - What

Recently at Autodesk University 2008 the candidates for the new AUGI Board of Directors were introduced and members of AUGI encouraged to participate in the election to get new members of the board. There were some excited candidates willing to step up and volunteer in the difficult job of being a board member of one of the largest independent CAD Communities in the world. Due to the challengers having to exceed 67% voting and none reported as making that percentage no changes were made to the AUGI Board.

Update 12/30/08
Apparently I misread the first AUGI Board of Directors election announcement and there is some confusion on the election results. The current AUGI Board of Directors is trying to decide what next with all AUGI members watching. Nothing like a good twisting election story these days.

AUGI Election Results

Cheers,
Shaan

AU2008 Wednesday - AutoCAD Wish List

The following official 2008 AUGI AutoCAD Wish List was presented onstage by AUGI President Mark Kiker to Autodesk Vice President of the PSEB Platform Products Guri Stark at the AUGI Annual Meeting held at Autodesk University 2008.

 

AutoCAD Wish List from AUGI 

1. Convert PDF to DWG
2. Solid Hatch Opacity Setting
3. Design File Locking
4. Import PDF into DWG or DXF (DONE and in the AutoCAD Subscription Bonus Pack 2)
5. Lock Viewport scale While allowing panning
6. Send all Hatches to Back
7. Compare two drawings
8. Block Manager
9. Improve PLINE edit Tool
10. Freeze in All Viewports except current

Traveling Home Today

After almost two weeks in China and Japan I am packing to head back home. Due to my flight crossing the international dateline, my flight will arrive before I leave but only on a calendar and clock as there is no time warp travel going on although it would be nice to be able to travel around the globe in a split second.

I had a great time and met many new friends and customers in both China and Japan where Autodesk Universities were held. I spent yesterday with my friends from AUGI Japan in the region around Kamakura visiting the beautiful shrines and temples. We also spent a excellent traditional Japanese lunch with Autodesk Japan’s Wataru Doi.

 

I want to thank all whom I met in China and Japan including customers, employees, partners, user communities, event organizers, and locals for their excellent hospitality while visiting their countries. It was an absolute honor to be presenting at Autodesk University China  and Autodesk University Japan which were both first time events and a great success.

It has been a great trip but I will be glad to be back home in my own bed which I have only seen for a few days in the past 4 weeks. I have so many things to write up, photos to process, follow up from meetings, and of course the time zone adjustment to make in the next few days.

I also must get ready for the Autodesk University in Las Vegas in the not so distant future.

Check out the new Autodesk University 2008 Show Guide.

Cheers,
Shaan

Congratulations to Mike and Melanie Perry

The big news for me today is not just the US elections (US residents please make sure to vote regardless of your choice), but rather the news that Mike and Melanie Perry have a new son.

Mike and Melanie are some of the most active volunteers for AUGI and I have known them for many years and appreciate all they do, and they do do a lot.

Thanks to Richard Binning @Binrock on Twitter alerting me to this momentous occasion of the birth of a new Autodesk product user.
Congratulations to @MikePerry & @MelaniePerry!

”Birth of beta son:
Declan Glen Perry 
7lbs 12oz and 21" 

I wonder if Declan Glen Perry has long frizzy red hair and an English accent like his father? Baby photos are soon to be released, I am sure of that and if not I will Photoshop Mike on a babies body.

The only sad note is Melanie wont be attending Autodesk University in Las Vegas this year but she does have a valid excuse and I will keep an eye on her hubby to keep him out of trouble.

I am currently in Shanghai China preparing to go to the first day of Autodesk University China 08. Yesterday was spent exploring Shanghai and an area just outside the city with fellow Autodesk coworkers Joseph Wurcher, Ray Eisenberg, Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture, and Matt Olding.

Cheers,
Shaan

Amazing event by FOCUS Kuwait Users Group Meeting

I presented yesterday in Kuwait to about 450+ people mostly CAD Managers, Architects and Engineering team leads and members of the FOCUS Kuwait users group. Although my computer decided to give me troubles working with the projector so I used another presenter’s machine as Sundar C of Omnix was presenting on AutoCAD for Architects at the event.
Things went very well.

 

 


It was amazing how well organized this users group is and the committee and Binu Mathew, Mohamed Iqbal, Thomas Chandy and many more who worked tirelessly on the events success and helped me greatly. I extend my deepest gratitude to the FOCUS Kuwait committee and the many members that attended. I made many new friends I hope to visit again in the near future. I have never signed so many certificates in one seating or had my photo taken hundreds of times in one day. Speaking with the members was an absolute pleasure and I appreciate all the hundreds of written suggestions and questions which I will be answering.

I would like to sincerely thank the sponsors such as Dr. Jayant Deshpande of Omnix in Dubai UAE who attended and is the Gulf Region Autodesk Distributor for being a generous event sponsor as well as the local Kuwait resellers and partners such as G.I.C. and Al Sarraf computer Services.

I took a photo after dinner of the Kuwait Waters Towers off the Fifth Ring Motorway.

Dubai UAE tomorrow and then home for a few days before heading to Shanghai China for Autodesk University China 08 and then Yokohama Japan (AUJ) for Autodesk University Japan 08.

Cheers,
Shaan

Now in Kuwait for Meetings and Presentations

Today I meet with multiple Autodesk customers in Kuwait. To say it should be a very interesting and educational day might be an understatement.

Tomorrow I am presenting much of the day to many Autodesk and AutoCAD users that are members of the FOCUS Kuwait users group.

I am still amazed at how long the user group members waited for me to clear customs in the Kuwait airport, over 2 hours and they were still smiling when I emerged.

 

 

 

Kuwait is very hot and humid even at this time of the year. The humidity feels like 200% (not really but feels like it) and the temperature is above 31c. I did happen to notice the blue striped water towers on the way to my hotel and must go see those for photos tonight or tomorrow night. My hotel room looks down the waterfront and the city towards many famous landmarks as well as new construction underway. I am trying to learn some Arabic words but that is pretty difficult but I am trying.

Cheers,
Shaan

Get Out and Vote on Your AutoCAD, Revit , and Inventor Wish List Items October 2008

No politics, mudslinging, hot air, hanging chads, or cheesy rhetoric involved in this voting.

The AUGI Wish List for Autodesk's products AutoCAD, Revit and Inventor are now open for voting after a month of AUGI members. This voting follows a period of AUGI members submitting their nominations for wish list items for consideration to be added to products.

We at Autodesk take this wish list seriously and try to do all we can from the top voted items. The wish lists are presented to the VP of the division for the products at Autodesk University. Although we cannot add all items overnight and some may be technically challenging, we do review and try to add them to the products and they become some of the favorite additions to our products. We on the AutoCAD Team just added some of them and released them in the AutoCAD Subscription Bonus Pack 1 which will later be added to a future release of AutoCAD. The Bonus Packs are a way to get new features before they are added to the product.

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AutoCAD Wish List
AutoCAD Wish List Ballot

Inventor Wish List
Inventor Wish List Ballot

Revit Architecture Wish List
Revit Architecture Wish List Ballot

AUGI membership is free and much more than the wish list such as free Autodesk product training classes, networking with 100,000 members, forums, and more. 
Get involved what do you have to lose, instead think about what you have to gain.

Cheers,
Shaan

AutoCAD Users Turkey, Kuwait, and Dubai

I will be presenting about AutoCAD and its future development as well as other topics in Istanbul Turkey, Kuwait, and Dubai in the next two weeks. I want to invite all AutoCAD customers in the region to the events or to possibly arrange for a private meeting at your office to discuss your use of AutoCAD and the future of AutoCAD. All events and meetings are free. This is not a sales presentation but focused on product use and technical topics. I am extremely excited to visit customers in these locations and honored to have been invited.

• Istanbul Turkey October 16-22 Two events planned. One held 17 October 14:00 at MİMAR SİNAN GÜZEL SANATLAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ Link. 
• Kuwait City Kuwait October 22-26  FOCUS Kuwait Users Group Event on the 24th of October
• Dubai UAE October 26

If you are interested in the events or meeting with me while I am in your region, please contact me by sending me an email or enter your information in my survey for this trip. Sign Up Survey

Please tell your coworkers, fellow students or faculty, and AutoCAD user group members about these presentations and visits.

Sincerely
Shaan Hurley
Platform Technology Evangelist
Autodesk, Inc.

AUGI Top DAUG 2008 T-Shirt

Go view and vote for the new AUGI TOP DAUG tee shirt design. AUGI membership is free and there are plenty of benefits like training top ten wish lists, AU discounts, along with about 100,000 members to network with.

There are some very creative designs! Go vote before October 17th.
http://www.augi.com/autodeskuniversity/tshirts.asp (you must login to vote but membership is free). I

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I recently posted a flyer to my Flickr Autodesk and AutoCAD History Gallery from AUGI’s past back from when they were known as NAAUG North American AutoCAD Users Group.

 

Cheers,
Shaan

Planned Presentation Visits to Turkey, Kuwait and Dubai

I will be in Turkey, Kuwait, and Dubai in just about two weeks for user group presentations and customer discussions.

• Istanbul Turkey October 16-22 Two events planned. One held at the local University Link.  I will be in Cappadocia Turkey on the weekend with my friends from the Daily AutoCAD blog Erhan and Orhan Toker.
• Kuwait City Kuwait October 22-26  FOCUS Kuwait Users Group Event on the 24th of October
• Dubai UAE October 26

I am truly excited about the events and locations and honored to have been invited. I hope to meet many people using Autodesk products while there. I am also excited to see the geography and architecture and will post photos from the events and local photo trekking,

In keeping with my invitations to chat while traveling, If you are an AutoCAD user and interested in a private discussion about AutoCAD with your team at your office or over a cup of coffee, please send me an email.

When I return I only have a few days rest before heading to Shanghai China for Autodesk University China 08 and then Yokohama Japan (AUJ) for Autodesk University Japan 08. It is like a world tour in a month all before AU 2008 in Las Vegas.

While sitting on plane is not my idea of fun, the reward is meeting our customers around the world and talking with them.

 

 

 

Cheers,
Shaan

Good time in Kansas City

I presented to the Midwest CAD Technology EXPO as well as the Kansas City AutoCAD Users Group yesterday, and had a fantastic time.

  I also showed off the real clay Matt Murphy Clay head Sculpture as well as a 3D laser scanned and 3D printed version of the clay head in ABS material.

Pete Southwood of Autodesk showed some features of AutoCAD Map 3D that non GIS users would like such as drawing cleanup and the multiple users able to edit the same DWG.

Between the presentations I spent some downtime sitting and talking with the lead architect and project construction manager of a major retail chain about their challenges and also about sustainable architecture and technology. One topic of our conversation that we discussed at length was how we need to get more young people interested in technology architecture and engineering, or we are in for a poor future. What was also an eye opening learning experience for me was how retail stores are trying to save energy as well as he told me about how some modular buildings for residential are not your mobile homes, but made of high end construction quality and materials. Sometimes the greatest discussions and educational opportunities take place spontaneously.

After the Kansas City AutoCAD Users Group I spent time talking with several members, so long that I left too late for dinner at Jack Stacks or the Summit Hickory Pit and the only thing left open I the area was McDonalds... I was surprised that Kansas City restaurants on a Tuesday night for the most part close at 9-10 PM. Missing some great KC BBQ was a sad thing, but the discussions were worth trade off.

I am now headed for breakfast (do they have breakfast bbq in KC), then the airport for travel back to Salt Lake.I wish I had more time to visit with more people perhaps even Mike and Melanie Perry up in St Louis, but unfortunately not this time.

 

Cheers,
Shaan

Autodesk University 2008 Blogger Social

The time and date has moved to Tuesday, December 2, 4-5:30PM so that it does not conflict with the important AUGI Beer bust and annual meeting. So if you are a Autodesk product blogger make sure to sign up and be there as it will be a great opportunity to met other bloggers, Autodesk employees and perhaps some special guests.

Mike Perry of AUGI BLAUGI has no excuse to not attend now, and perhaps may treat us to a lesson on how to river dance!

Sign up for the First Blogger Social at AU
Sign Up Here

Yes, we love bloggers and respect their independent voices!

Shaan

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AUGIWorld Magazine September October 2008 Edition FREE and Available Now

The AUGIWorld magazine is just like AUGI membership, free and full of great benefits. The new issue is out and packed with wholesome goodness to assist you in your job using Autodesk products, These are fellow product users and volunteers for the most part creating this excellent magazine.

AUGIWorld magazine - September/October 2008 issue out now!

Thank you AUGI!

Cheers,
Shaan

35,000 Miles Planned Next 3 Months

Not by bicycle or hiking, but by plane basically around the world.

I have quite a lineup this fall for trips to customer events like 3 Autodesk Universities (Shanghai, Tokyo, Las Vegas), A trip to Istanbul, Kuwait, and Dubai and a trip to Kansas City.  Of course I cannot fly non-stop direct to most locations and go through cities in transit like Seoul Korea, Paris, and Bahrain.

I never really get that excited about the travel process itself. All that time sitting in airports and in a seat for the equivalent of days in economy class in a high altitude fast flying aluminum cylinder. Being the places and meeting the people is the exciting part and makes the hassle of all the travel well worthwhile.

More details about the locations, events, and people soon like getting to visit the Daily AutoCAD crew in Istanbul Turkey along with local AutoCAD users, the CAD Midwest Technology Expo in Kansas City hosted by Autodesk Premier Solutions Partner Mid-West CAD, as well getting the honor of speaking at the FOCUS Kuwait group. If you, your user group, or company is located in one of the locations such as Shanghai, Tokyo, Istanbul, Kuwait, Dubai, or Kansas City, I hope to meet you and can stop by and make office visits for discussions just send me an email.

Dates:

• Kansas City Missouri September 30
• Istanbul Turkey October 16-22
• Kuwait City Kuwait October 22-26
• Dubai UAE October 26-27
• Shanghai China November 3-8
• Yokohama Japan November 8-13
• Las Vegas Nevada November 30- December 7th

 
If you have a large AutoCAD user group meeting and would like me to attend and/or present on topics like “Autodesk and AutoCAD past present and future”, “helping shape the future of all Autodesk products”, or perhaps out for a bite to eat, please send me an email with details of the meeting or event and perhaps I will be visiting your location.

I also might have a few locations more to add to my travel like Phoenix and a remote chance of Mexico City and Sao Paulo Brasil.

Luckily today I only have 598 miles to travel going to San Francisco and San Rafael California.

Autodesk University Links:

Cheers,
Shaan

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AUGI DESIGN ACADEMY 2008 London, England

Helge blogged and alerted me about the event:
http://mcdcad.eu/2008/09/02/augi-design-academy-2008-25th-and-26th-of-september/

Join AUGI and the fine industry experts at ADA 2008 in London the city of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
25 & 26 September, 2008 Register Now

AUGI Design Academy – London features more than 60 information-packed Autodesk software courses and multiple opportunities to network with peers. Besides the education edge you’ll receive, enjoy the 2^nd Annual AUGIuk Beer Bust, continental breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, and giveaways every day.

2 Days, beer bust, breakfast, lunch and snack as well as top presenters, did I mention beer bust, and London, cant beat that.

I won’t be there unfortunately but someone please send me pictures and a report of the event.

Cheers,
Shaan

Twittering at AU ~ Tweet Tweet

Richard Binning posted about one way to keep up to date on what is occurring at AU this year by following a Twitter feed AUGIatAU.

What are you doing? Follow AUGI at AU using Twitter

I am on Twitter as well but I still don’t understand the hype unless at an event which it makes perfect sense otherwise Facebook solves all the networking and networking. I am still giving Twitter a fair shot and Richard’s post had a great YouTube linked video on Twitter.

Don’t forget the Facebook groups for AU as well. I will be organizing events and activities and meetups in Facebook and perhaps Twittering in between.

Autodesk University 2008 Facebook Group

Autodesk University Japan Event Group

Autodesk University 2008 Shutterbug Event

Cheers,
Shaan @mrcadman on Twitter

AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1 Released

Autodesk Subscription customers today can download the new Autodesk Subscription Bonus Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2009. This Bonus Pack can be downloaded via the Subscription Center. This Subscription Bonus Pack is currently available in English for the 32-bit and 64bit AutoCAD 2009. The download is about 80MB.

AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack – Customer Wishlist Enhancements
Extend the capability of AutoCAD® 2009 with this bonus pack that offers some highly requested AUGI wishlist items before the next AutoCAD release.

The AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack provides many useful AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) functionality requests, including:

• New measurement capabilities You can measure the distance, radius, angle, area, and volume of selected objects or a sequence of points.

• SPLINE to PLINE

• Reverse PLINE edit

• Rotating viewport and have the view rotate with the viewport

• Erase unreferenced unnamed objects including PURGE 0-length objects like blank spaces in text etc.

The following commands and system variables have been added or updated for AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1:

Commands

• MEASUREGEOM
• PEDIT
• PURGE
• -PURGE
• REVERSE
• SPLINEDIT

System Variables

• DELOBJ
• PLINECONVERTMODE
• VPROTATEASSOC

Notes:

• AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1 can only be applied to AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD Revit^® Architecture Suite 2009, and AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2009. It cannot be applied to other products.
• AutoCAD 2009 Update 1 is required in order to run AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1. It will be installed with AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1 if it has not already been installed.
• In AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1, new and updated functionality (commands, system variables, options, and warning messages) displays in English only. If you install this bonus pack on a non-English product, all new and updated functionality displays in English.

Cheers,
Shaan

(note: I am wondering why the blackout of any recent coverage or crediting of my blog postings and news by some in the online CAD “press”, pundits, or CAD news aggregators…Perhaps they are censoring me for some obscure reason or perhaps less insidiously they just don’t have the updated RSS feed)

Shaan in Seattle Next Week for Puget Sound Autodesk Users Group

Next week I will be speaking at one of my favorite user groups in Seattle with many of whom I call friends. Sign up and attend the meeting and get involved with the local user group as well as bring your Autodesk and AutoCAD questions and feedback.

July 8th,2008 Seattle Washington – Puget Sound Autodesk Users Group http://psaug.org/

Cheers,
Shaan