Between the Lines

Videos of the Subscription Advantage Packs for AutoCAD Architecture 2010 & AutoCAD MEP 2010

I posted 3 videos over on the Between the Walls blog for those that are AutoCAD Architecture 2010,and AutoCAD MEP 2010 and on subscription. You can now get the new Subscription Advantage Packs from the Autodesk Subscription Center.

The covered Subscription Advantage Packs:

• AutoCAD Architecture 2010 Renovation Subscription Advantage Pack
• AutoCAD Architecture 2010 Productivity Subscription Advantage Pack
• AutoCAD MEP 2010 Duct Transition Subscription Advantage Pack

Videos of the Subscription Advantage Packs for AutoCAD Architecture 2010 & AutoCAD MEP 2010

Also checkout the AutoCAD 2010 Timesaver Tools Subscription Advantage Pack as well as many other Autodesk 2010 product Subscription Advantage Packs.

AutoCAD 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack - TimeSaver Tools

Get a preview of future product features now as an Autodesk Subscription customer.
Available NOW on the Subscription Center

Hide and isolate objects: A top AUGI request, AutoCAD users now have the ability to turn on and off objects regardless of layer. Because of this key timesaver, you no longer need to track down objects across many layers in order to hide information that isn’t relevant while you update a drawing. And you can quickly show or hide the objects again as needed.

Select Similar: Another top AUGI request, now you can save time selecting objects with similar properties (such as same layer or linetype, blocks or xrefs with same names, etc.).

Create Selected: With this new tool, you can quickly create a new object to your drawing based on the properties of another selected object, by matching the object type and properties.

Hatch to back: Another key AUGI request, this new capability makes it easier for you to select all hatches in a drawing, then send them to the back of the drawing, streamlining the process of working with hatches.

This Add on can also be installed on multiple other AutoCAD 2010 based products such as AutoCAD Architecture 2010, AutoCAD Mechanical 2010, and AutoCAD MEP 2010

There are also other Subscription Advantage Packs now available for many Autodesk products such as:

AutoCAD Architecture 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack - Renovation Extension 2010

AutoCAD MEP 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack
Duct Transition Extension 2010

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack - Point Clouds, Roundabout Layout, and General Enhancements

AutoCAD® Map 3D 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack - Point Clouds

And many more!

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AutoCAD Architecture Designed Buildings

The Autodesk Marketing Team is actively looking for compelling images of AutoCAD Architecture-designed multiuse buildings for use in upcoming marketing visualization images. 

It should be easy to find some that would like some visibility and promotion of their architectural designs. I know when I visited Kuwait last year, the region was predominantly using AutoCAD Architecture and were involved in these two buildings under construction.

If you are interested in submitting a project for consideration, please contact Kyle Herring at kyle.herring@autodesk.com for details. 

Deadlines for image submission are rapidly approaching, so act quickly if you’d like to have your project considered for use.

 

Cheers,
Shaan

See The Difference with AutoCAD 2010 Tour 2009 First Week Completed

Had a great week with Lynn Allen, Heather, Lisa, many Autodesk partners, and hundreds of customers last week on the See the Difference with AutoCAD 2010 Tour. We were in Orlando, Atlanta, and San Diego. I met a great amount of customers from single person design firms to some major cruise lines and movie studios using Autodesk products and looking to learn more. I covered a wide array of Autodesk products in the AutoCAD Family including AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD Architecture 2010, AutoCAD MEP 2010, AutoCAD Mechanical 2010, AutoCAD Plant 3D, and some future cool things like the upcoming Alias Sketch for AutoCAD.

The travel schedule was a little tight with the three events one after the other but we made it.

Sign up to attend the free events. Lynn Allen and myself will be winging around the North American continent in October.

October 6 Orlando, FL 

October 7 Atlanta, GA 

October 8 San Diego, CA 

October 13 Columbus, OH 

October 14 Montreal, QC 

October 15 Edmonton, AB 

October 20 Boston, MA 

October 22 Washington DC

I am posting photos of the events.
See The Difference with AutoCAD 2010 Tour 2009 Photo Gallery

Tomorrow I take off for this weeks leg of the tour in Columbus, Montreal, and Edmonton. I hope to see you at the events!

Cheers,
Shaan

For those social media butterflies on Twitter you can follow me at @mrcadman or now on the new Google Wave at 3dhurley@googlewave.com

See the Difference Tour with AutoCAD 2010 Tour in October

Sign up to attend the free events. Lynn Allen and myself will be winging around the North American continent in October.

I will be covering the AutoCAD Family of products such as AutoCAD Mechanical and AutoCAD Architecture  with features and tips as well as a discussion on the possible future technology and trends. I have a bunch of content to fit in a 90 minute presentation making for a fun challenge. No fancy bus or stage roadies on this tour but should be fun.

I will also be lining up some customer and user group visits while on the tour so contact me  if you want to meetup.

“Take a Journey through the AutoCAD Family of Products
Shaan Hurley, Platform Technology Evangelist”

Sign Up for the See the Difference with AutoCAD 2010 Tour locations.

• October 6 Orlando, FL 
• October 7 Atlanta, GA 
• October 8 San Diego, CA 
• October 13 Columbus, OH 
• October 14 Montreal, QC 
• October 15 Edmonton, AB 
• October 20 Boston, MA 
• October 22 Washington DC

Hope to see you along the tour!
Shaan

See the Difference with AutoCAD 2010 Tour in October 2009

I will be presenting along with Autodesk’s own Lynn Allen and some fine Autodesk partners for a busy October schedule. Please come visit with us for these free events. I will be covering a potpourri of AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD based products AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Architecture, and AutoCAD MEP  with my favorite tips and tricks. I will also be talking about Autodesk Impression and the AutoCAD Exchange as well as hopefully some really cool future possibilities.

I will also be lining up some customer and user group visits while on the tour so contact me  if you want to meetup.

See the Difference with AutoCAD 2010 Tour
Autodesk Technical Evangelists Lynn Allen and Shaan Hurley

• Tues. Oct. 6 Orlando Florida
• Wed. Oct. 7 Atlanta Georgia
• Thurs. Oct. 8 San Diego California
• Tues. Oct. 13 Columbus Ohio
• Wed. Oct. 14 Montreal Quebec Canada
• Thurs. Oct. 15 Edmonton Alberta Canada 
• Tues. Oct. 20 Boston Massachusetts
• Thurs. Oct. 22 Washington DC

http://acad.experience.autodesk.com.

Map of the tour below.

A grand total of 14,023 domestic air miles which are equal in my book to 7 international miles for each domestic mile traveled. I will be jumping during most of the flights so that I can reduce my carbon footprint by half. The warped/twisted theory is that if the plane has to only carry my load half of the trip it saves fuel. Of course I am joking about the jumping part saving fuel. ;-)

I am also working out a schedule for other events coming up including Autodesk University in Las Vegas which is only 88 days from now.

I hope to see you on the tour!
Shaan

AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010 Update 1 (SP1) Available for Download

The first Update (aka Service Pack) to AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010 are now available for download. This update addresses over 160defects and issues reported by customers, product support, and Customer Error Reporting “CER” data, One of the highlight fixes is the fixing of attaching multiple Xrefs at one time.

There is a new change for Autodesk Subscription customers in this Update 1. If you are a subscription customer a balloon notification periodically displays in the InfoCenter making you aware of how much time remains before your subscription expires.  The Updates for AutoCAD Architecture 2010, AutoCAD MEP 2010, and AutoCAD Mechanical are currently undergoing pre-release beta testing on http://beta.autodesk.com.

AutoCAD Updates and Service Packs Updates & Service Packs

• AutoCAD 2010 Update 1
• AutoCAD LT 2010 Update 1
• Readme

Tom Stoeckel has also blogged about this Update 1 for AutoCAD 2010 on the AutoCAD Support blog Without a net ~ Update 1 Released for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2010

Cheers,
Shaan

AutoCAD Architecture 2010 Key Feature Series from AUGI

In reading through my AUGI Hotnews emails after returning from a lengthy vacation, I noticed a great article series for AutoCAD Architecture 2010 features. It was written by Tharakesh Ananthakrishnan of OMNIX International Dubai who is a very knowledgeable Autodesk Authorized Instructor that I had met while presenting in Kuwait last October at the Kuwait FOCUS Users Group meeting (Amazing event by FOCUS Kuwait Users Group Meeting). Tharakesh was also the first Autodesk Certified Professional in the Middle East. I hope to get back to Kuwait and UAE really soon as the people and experience was top notch in addition to some really mind blowing construction projects using AutoCAD Architecture.

If you are looking for a nice overview of AutoCAD Architecture 2010, then this three part series is definitely worth reading to get up to speed.

You may need to register for a FREE Autodesk User Group International “AUGI” membership. With AUGI at almost 100,000 members I am pretty sure most of the readers here are already members with all the great resources offered by AUGI membership.

• AutoCAD Architecture 2010: Key Features, Part 1 – May 2009
• AutoCAD Architecture 2010: Key Features, Part 2 – June 2009
• AutoCAD Architecture 2010: Key Features, Part 3 - July 2009

Cheers,
Shaan

AutoCAD Reference Manager “Refman”

How can you update and re-path AutoCAD drawing reference files such as other drawing files, fonts, or plot configuration files after a path has changed?

Reference Manager is the answer. In AutoCAD 2004 the Reference Manager was added and it is included with other AutoCAD based products like AutoCAD Architecture, and AutoCAD Mechanical. The tool is easy to add drawings and see where reference files were found or not..You can search, select all, invert selections, edit selected paths and even use find and replace paths in batch. The Reference Manager can run outside of AutoCAD and without AutoCAD running.

You can locate the Reference Manager from the Windows Start Menu > Programs > Autodesk > AutoCAD 200x > Reference Manager

 

Cheers,
Shaan

Focusing on the AutoCAD Fantastic Four

In June I will begin to focus on my Autodesk Platform Technology Evangelist position and less on managing all Autodesk product betas. I will be the mouth and ears for customers, the design and development, and product management teams.

I am adding 3 more great products to my hat for my position as Autodesk Technology Evangelist. In addition to AutoCAD, I am now involved with AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD MEP, and AutoCAD Mechanical and what I call the AutoCAD Fantastic Four. I am truly excited for having the cross discipline focus. These products are used by millions and relied upon and Autodesk is continuing to improve them based on customer feedback. They are not going anywhere or being retired they are being focused together with the same AutoCAD DNA they share which will result in a much more consistent and powerful features using more coordinated team resources.

I will continue same as always on this blog Between the Lines the same as I have the past 6 years but will have more time to dedicate to writing more tips and tricks and cover more products, user groups, and great customers as well as traveling for events and speaking engagements.

Before coming to Autodesk, I was a mechanical designer involved in a wide variety of large projects from process equipment, pressure vessels, shell & tube heat exchangers, large bridges, hydroelectric and navigational locks, nuclear steam generators,and military watercraft. Having been involved in a wide variety of projects gives me a diverse background of project experience and disciplines to draw upon in my jobs at Autodesk.

Please let me know how I am doing or what you would like to see in the blog. If you want a very large audience for AutoCAD tips, I would be happy to publish your tips and give you a very visible credit and potentially get you fame and fortune, ok maybe not fortune but thousands read this blog daily.

Sincerely,
Shaan Hurley MoMH (Man of Many Hats)
Autodesk Platform Technology Evangelist

MEASUREGEOM Hotfix Released for AutoCAD 2010 Products

There is a new hotfix in response to Customer Error Reporting (CER) reports we have received from customers. This solution applies to all AutoCAD 2010 based products such as AutoCAD 2010,AutoCAD LT 2010, AutoCAD Architecture 2010, AutoCAD Mechanical 2010, DWG TrueView 2010, and more listed in the ReadMe.

MEASUREGEOM is a command that was released to AutoCAD 2009 Subscription customers last fall in the AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack 1 and was also included in the AutoCAD 2010 based products. It added new measurement capabilities such as measuring the distance, radius, angle, area, and volume of selected objects or a sequence of points.

If you entered your email into the CER dialog and hit this issue you should receive an email from Autodesk alerting you to a fix in the near future.

Link to Hotfix

If you crash an Autodesk product (hopefully not), please make sure to send in the CER report with details and your email with each and every incident so we can research the problem.

Cheers,
Shaan

Architectural Flavored AutoCAD

For those using the Architectural flavored AutoCAD AutoCAD Architecture or considering it here is a nice 5 minute demonstration of the upcoming AutoCAD Architecture 2010 product by Autodesk’s ACA ninja Kelcey Lemon.