Between the Lines

Jay Leno's Green Garage

See Jay Leno's solar and wind system for his car garage in the embedded video below or at www.jaylenosgarage.com. I got the rare opportunity to visit with Jay and his team a couple weeks ago in his secret car collection buildings and it was unbelievable to say the least.

I recently provided some AutoCAD 2009 upgrade training to Jay's team who use Autodesk products like AutoCAD and even Autosketch in the designing one off replacement parts for Jay's world class car collection when Jay breaks them. I got to reverse engineer a Model T Ford bearing cap in 3D while there. I met some of the worlds most experienced and knowledgeable engineers, car lovers, and top notch fabricators in his shop. This is also where I met the legendary Eddie Paul who is a legend in metal fabrication and designing cars for the movies, mechanical sharks, new types of motors and just about everything else using AutoCAD 2009 and 3ds Max and soon Autodesk Inventor.

I even got a slick ride back to my hotel in Jay's hydrogen cell powered GM SUV which runs on hydrogen. I would love to have a hydrogen powered vehicle but with only 40 of them made so far they run about 1 million dollars so the price needs to come down to an affordable level.
One funny thing I found out is Jay is a happy mouse clicker on a computer "click" "click" "click" "click" when only one click was needed. He is a very down to earth guy off camera and like myself he does not sleep much and is always going.

    

Cheers,
Shaan

AutoCAD 2009 Tutorial Videos Published on YouTube

These 13 video tutorials for AutoCAD 2009 features were recorded by my coworker Heidi Hewett.

1. AutoCAD 2009 Demo Introduction
2. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 2- Quick Access Toolbar
3. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 3 - Menu Browser
4. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - Part 4 - Ribbon
5. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 5 - Status Bar
6. AutoCAD 2009 Demo - part 6 - Quick Properties
7. AutoCAD 2009 - part 7 - QuickView layout
8. AutoCAD 2009 - part 8 - QuickView Drawings
9. AutoCAD 2009 - part 9 - ToolTips
10. AutoCAD 2009 - part 10 - Action Recorder
11. AutoCAD 2009 - part 11 - Working with Layers
12. AutoCAD 2009 - part 12 - ShowMotion
13. AutoCAD 2009 - part 13 - Navigation in 3D

Thank You Heidi.
-Shaan

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The AutoCAD Guys Video

Happy Monday!

AutoCAD Product Managers Eric "Captain Hawaii" Stover and Doug Cochran discuss and show some AutoCAD 2009 features.

 

Stay tuned for more videos.
Shaan

 

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Catching Up After almost 2 weeks in San Rafael

I have been in San Rafael and San Francisco California for most of the past 2 weeks. I had many meetings and some management training to attend. I got to see a bunch of coworkers I have not seen in sometime as well which was a bonus. I also stayed with a good friend and spent the evenings talking, BBQ'ing, and seeing old places as I used to live in the Bay area. It was nice seeing the area and friends but the traffic is even worse...I even video taped one commute to later speed up to a Caffeine Commute (6x speed) to the Autodesk office like I have done in a video from back in 2004 "Have I Snapped? Updated 6-22-04".

I took quite a few photos in the Bay Area and some are getting quite the recognition. You are free to use the images personally. The sizes are large enough even for dual monitors or large screen background displays. I know quite a few have used my scorpion under UV light photo as a screen background or various Utah desert images.

            

Other popular photos used as desktop wallpapers.
      

More of S.Hurley's photos

 

I have a bunch of tasks and email to catch up on and some blog postings. :-)

Have a great weekend!

Second Guess Thursday

 A little fun video diversion for this Second Guess Thursday LINK

Jason Pratt's YouTube'd Tutorial on AutoCAD Layouts and Publish

New YouTube video: How to use Layouts and Publish in AutoCAD
2 parts.

Actually despite Jason's reservations his voice was not all that bad although you could tell he was in a empty office. I liked that he did not have a mono toned boring tutorial voice and it did not at all seem canned or over prepared  as it was a freestyle demo for fun and benefit of others.

The only content remark I would mention is that I noticed is Jason did not show you can hide (default) the Layout tabs and now with AutoCAD 2008 even reorder them and rename them as you would a Excel spreadsheet tab (wicked cool).

Keep those tutorials coming Jason and others feel free to join in and share a tutorial with others. I did post on YouTube the When Stupid Tourists Attack" Kangaroo video with that awful background music sung by Scott Sheppard of the blog http://labs.blogs.com/.

Cheers,
Shaan