No trick as it is a Halloween treat! That's right this blogs 999th post since August 2003 is a new Autodesk Bonus Tool for AutoCAD 2007 and based products. Bonus Tools have been a long standing tradition of Autodesk developers... Read more →
Did you know the new mental ray renderer in AutoCAD 2007 will make use of multi-core CPUs or multi processors if present? Read more →
About two years ago I visited an old Victorian style house in Petaluma California that was rumored to be haunted to take some photos. Since posting about it on this blog each October the emails and visitor activity for the... Read more →
From a press release by Autodesk today about Autodesk Inventor. Autodesk Inventor PLE will be available from Authorized Autodesk Resellers beginning October 2006. To find your local Authorized Autodesk Reseller please visit www.autodesk.com/resellers Engineering professionals and students will be granted... Read more →
The following steps give an overview of semi-automating the placement of a string of dimensions with the Qdim command. This command only works for model space dimensioning. 1. Start the Qdim command. 2. Select the geometry to dimension using standard... Read more →
http://waynehodgins.typepad.com/ Wayne is a learning, technology, and futurist at Autodesk in his position as Director of Worldwide Learning Solutions. Wayne has even posted a podcast to give readers some background on his blog. In addition to his well thought out... Read more →
I presented in Kansas City last week on how to get involved in helping shape the future of Autodesk products and afterwards received an email from customer John Herrman. He mentioned after reading my blog he decided to start a... Read more →
We just launched the public Preview 1 of Autodesk Impression (code named Vespa). For people located in England, United States, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia they can download Autodesk Impression preview now. Spread the word and go kick the... Read more →
Attend a Demo Download a 3ds Max 9 30 Day Trial Key New Features and Enhancements 64-bit Release for Windows Autodesk 3ds Max 9 marks the first full release of 3ds Max with both 32-bit (Microsoft® Windows® operating system) and... Read more →
I arrived Thursday night in San Rafael located about 15 minutes North of the Golden Gate bridge. I am visiting teams and friends while here and even attended a free lunch hosted by the AutoCAD Team. The hotel I am... Read more →
This week Autodesk Plant Solutions posted a new product beta for creating, modifying, and managing piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). Geared specifically for those who work on P&IDs in the process manufacturing and power generation industries, the product is built... Read more →
I arrived in Kansas City this afternoon to a rainy welcome when I was expecting warmer weather. Tonight I got to eat dinner with coworkers Abhi and Bud at a Kansas City barbeque restaurant known for awesome food, Jack Stack... Read more →
The Freewheel team added a new feature to the http://www.dwfit.com site. The team added the ability to "eMail this DWF". Freewheel is a Autodesk Labs project http://labs.autodesk.com and gives you the ability to view a DWF without installing any software... Read more →
When you use the Join command to join objects, the following rules apply. Lines: • Segments must be collinear. • Segments can overlap. • Segments can have a gap between them. Polylines and splines: • Must be coplanar. • Must... Read more →
I rebuilt my HP TC4400 TabletPC with the Release Candidate 2 of Windows Vista the next Windows release from Microsoft still in testing but expected to be shipping this fall. I also installed the Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2007... Read more →
RSS/Email HMTP (Hypertext Mail Transport Protocol) Below is a link to a presentation I found recorded on Google Video showing a new way to email using a pull method instead of push by Meng Weng Wong and Julian Haight. Pretty... Read more →
http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc2/en/download.htm If you want to test the final beta release "Release Candidate 2" of the next Microsoft Windows operating System Vista here is your last chance. The public download should only be available for a few days. The download is... Read more →
I found a great new AutoCAD Blog by Ward Romberger thanks to RSS feeds I read I read Tracy Lincoln's heads up on the new blog TLConsulting. http://cadecorner.blogspot.com/ Read more →
The new version of the Firefox 2 web browser has just hit the web. Bear in mind this is still not the final version but a release candidate 2. There is support for Windows, Mac and Linux in many languages.... Read more →
Freewheel is the codename for the zero client DWF viewing from a Autodesk Labs project. http://labs.autodesk.com http://dwfit.com Check out Scott Sheppard's post on the Freewheel Bookmarlet http://dwf.blogs.com/articles/bookmarklet.htm Read more →
Many know I have used SnagIt and Camtasia from Techsmith for many years to record screen captures for documents or tutorials or to record videos. They are a great team producing great software that I use every day. I have... Read more →
ID: DL8112891 Plotting drawings to most raster file formats is slower in AutoCAD® 2007-based products when compared to previous versions of the same applications. This is most evident when plotting to bitonal CALS or TIFF files. This hotfix speeds up... Read more →
Thanks for the heads up Steven! Find out how you can participate in this competition, visit the website, http://www.vizdepot.com. The official rules can be found here, http://www.vizdepot.com/forums/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=53 Read more →
Thank You Mike Perry of AUGI. I almost forgot, ok so I did but I should not have. :-) Make sure to see the final wish list presented at Autodesk University. Cheers, Shaan Source: BLAUGI: October 2006 Ballots for AutoCAD... Read more →
If you are attending Autodesk University this year in Las Vegas you should check out this years AU Connect site as well as the AU Blog by Joseph Wurcher the person behind many of the things and classes that make... Read more →