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The First AutoCAD 2009 Books

These books/courseware are written by industry experts and the same courseware used by Autodesk Training Centers (ATC) around the world. These new books/courseware will be available worldwide in about 7-10 days from www.autodesk.com/store AutoCAD 2009: Transitioning from AutoCAD 2008 (English) Using hands-on exercises, students learn about the productivity changes from AutoCAD® 2008 to AutoCAD® 2009. Students learn how to efficiently navigate the new ribbon tabs and panels and use the Menu Browser and Quick Access toolbar. This courseware teaches students... Read more →

AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT Discussion Forums

Join a great community of yours peers in solving issues and learning new tips and tricks, as well as make some great friends and sometimes watch the humor and egos (TT) at play . The dynamics of discussion forums is usually about someone having a problem motivating them to post so looking at a forum does not give a complete picture of any product as most that are not having problems or questions don't post in the forums unless they... Read more →

Autodesk Impression 2 for Download by Autodesk Subscription Customers

Turn your DWG and DWF files into an impressive hand stylized rendering without having to break out those smelly ink markers, pencils, or talent. Unlike other methods you can update your rendered image when your DWG file changes instead of having to start all over again in the process. Images stylized in Impression provide another way to see the project instead of a exact 3D crisp rendering which communicates to some as a completed design, the 2D or 3D DWG... Read more →

Autodesk DWG TrueView 2009 Now Available for Free as a Download - Now Including Measure Objects

http://www.autodesk.com/dwgtrueview "Use the free* DWG TrueView™ to accurately view, plot, and publish authentic DWG™ and DWF™ files. And now, DWG TrueView™ incorporates all the functionality of DWG TrueConvert™. This means you can translate any AutoCAD® or AutoCAD-based drawing file for compatibility." New Features in DWG TrueView Raptor Beta 4 Enhanced UI with the addition of Ribbon Navigation Measure objects with these new commands: Distance, Area, List, Locate Point, Region/Mass properties, and Object Snaps Navigate drawings in 2D and 3D with... Read more →

Google Alerts for AutoCAD 2009

I have been using Google Alerts to notify me by email for various subjects. It is another way to see what is being said without having to scrub the Internet for the latest information. Here is what I received this morning for AutoCAD 2009 Alerts: Google News Alert for: "AutoCAD 2009" Driving Design With AutoCAD 2009 InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA The AutoCAD 2009 portfolio seems to have overcome many of those obstacles starting with the ease of use. The company said... Read more →

Download AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009 Free!

You can download the 30 day fully functioning trial now and the products will be shipping to all as of March 25th 2008. Give the products a trial and see what has changed and what is new. You can use the new ribbon and task based user interface and even customize it or turn it off and use AutoCAD the way you have always done, your choice. AutoCAD Home Page www.autodesk.com/autocad AutoCAD 2009 New Features Workshop AutoCAD 2009 30 Day... Read more →

Autodesk.com is updated for 2009 Products

The official Autodesk 2009 product launch is now commencing and the products will now be shipping. You can see AutoCAD 2009 information at www.autodesk.com/autocad. Read more →

AutoCAD Express Tools

We are looking for some feedback on what your top AutoCAD Express Tools are as well as any comments. It takes less than a minute so please add your feedback and be heard. Many of the old tools are now part of the AutoCAD base product but there are still some that reside in the optionally installed Express Tools. Link to Survey Express Tools Rock On! "Don't work so hard making a living that you forget to make a life"... Read more →

AutoCAD History from Version 1 to Release 2009 Which is the 23rd Release

I have now rolled my 10 year old unofficial AutoCAD History website into this blog for easier maintaining and updates. Check it out on my left sidebar of this blog under the Spotlight Pages section. Much more formatting and illustrations and images will be added. Since there were millions of hits to the old history site I figured it was time to do something more with it and make it easier to maintain. AutoCAD Release History AutoCAD 2009 (23) March... Read more →

AutoCAD Team Tip: AutoCAD 2009 QVDRAWING and QVLAYOUT

This AutoCAD Team Tip was submitted by Mathavan Arugalaimuthu of the AutoCAD QA Team. AutoCAD uses a Quick View framework to allow user to quickly browse / switch all the open files, all layouts in a file. QV Drawing and QV layout use the QV Windows to navigate between open drawings or layouts within a drawing. QVDRAWING: QVDRAWING helps to quickly switches between the drawings using the drawing previews (1St Level Drawing Preview Windows). Or switch to different layouts from... Read more →

Going Green - A Day for Green Beer and Limericks

Happy St. Patrick's Day blog me, I'm Irish ;-) Read more →

AUGI HotNews - March 2008, No. 58 - AEC Edition Is Out!

Lots of great articles in this latest version and all for free just like AUGI membership and all the perks. AUGI HotNews - March 15th, 2008 Some of the excellent articles: The Price of "Free" Studies have shown that people value what they pay for. But how do you reconcile that with the "free" nature of the Internet? Chris Lindner, AUGI President, ponders this in relation to AUGI. Autodesk University 2008: Share Your Expertise TIPniques: Design Review Brian Benton reviews... Read more →

AutoCAD Team Tip: AutoCAD 2009 - Tag Your It

User Tags a productivity Enhancer This AutoCAD Team Tip is from Randall "Randy" Young who is on the AutoCAD QA Team. I am not going to lie to you, the Menu Browser may not be as efficient to navigate as the pull down menus, but with its new search technology I believe it can be more affective. Creating user tags can make finding commands easier in the menu browser. By default no tags are assigned to commands, but when they... Read more →

Latest List of AutoCAD Support Hot Issues March 2008

The hot issues are a list of issues that have been reported and a solution. Read more →

Autodesk Subscription Value

This blog article was submitted by Florida based AutoCAD user Brian Benton. Check out Brian's blog for more http://cadablog.blogspot.com/ How often do you (or the company you work for) update your AutoCAD software? How much does it cost? What are the benefits of upgrading? How difficult will it be for our users to upgrade? These are but a few questions CAD Managers and IT Directors ask every March. Why? Because it is the time of year for the newness of... Read more →

Missed the Wienermobile yesterday...

Yesterday I saw the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile for a fleeting moment then it was gone. Read more →

Free One Click 2D and 3D Design Collaboration - Updated ShareNow Utility from Autodesk Labs

This free utility from Autodesk Labs allows you to one click publish to the free hosted Autodesk Freewheel from your AutoCAD based products as well as Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Freewheel is for quick and easy sharing of designs online in the DWF format. Read more →

AutoCAD Team Tip: Anatomy of an AutoCAD 2009 Tooltip

This AutoCAD Team Tip is from Randall "Randy" Young who is on the AutoCAD QA Team. According to Wikipedia “The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small box appears with supplementary information regarding the item being hovered over.” AutoCAD has had tooltips for a long time, but very little ability to customize them.... Read more →

I Better Get Busy, I made the Autodesk.com Home page ;-)

I have been swamped with the Autodesk 2009 product line launches, the beta projects wrapping up on many of the products, took a week off and went hiking and shutterbugging in Southern Utah, and then I got sick. No time for any of that now that I have hit the big time with my blog being on the main page of Autodesk.com. I have a few blog posts in draft I will finish up and get them online like the... Read more →

AutoCAD 2008 Layer Isolate Settings Tip by Michael Beall

The Layer Isolate feature has been around since at least the Bonus collection back in R14. In AutoCAD 2008 they kick it up a notch by adding a Settings feature whereby you can opt to either turn Off the layers you don’t select to isolate, or Lock them … which kicks in the new A2008 Fade control feature. Here’s the new prompt sequence with a running commentary… LAYISO Current setting: Hide layers, Viewports=Off In the past, any layer not selected... Read more →

Leaping off on a Walkabout Photo Trek

I took off yesterday headed for Southern Utah's Bryce Canyon, Escalante, Paria and other places to unwind, relax, and take photos. I am posting this via a connection of my Blackberry as a modem. I will be off the grid for the most part for the next few days except to upload photos to my Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/btl/. Today I am hiking Death Hollow Slot which sounds ominous but is spectacular in the colors and the snow. My GPS tracks... Read more →

augijp.augi.com now live (AUGIjp サイト)

4 Years in the making and thousands of Japan based AUGI members have a new site.... Read more →