I am taking most of the day off Friday to attend the HellFire 13 rocket launch event on the world famous Bonneville Salt Flats which are about 80 miles to the West of where I live in Salt Lake City.... Read more →
Microsoft has made available for download a pretty good document on tuning Microsoft Vista for performance. Overview Series: Windows Vista® Performance and Tuning Overview Windows Vista and SP1 focus on delivering greater performance and overall system responsiveness. By striking a... Read more →
Project Showroom demonstrates an SaaSy idea we have been developing on to allow people customize a visualization based on materials and parts you can change. In other words you can do a remodel and see the different items you selected... Read more →
Guillermo Melantoni is an AutoCAD Product Manager in charge of new features and enhancements in 3D modeling in AutoCAD is looking for users in the Los Angeles area that can spend an hour talking about workflow, needs and pains involving... Read more →
I have attended Autodesk University “AU” for over 10 years now including the one year when we held 4 AU events. Every year I have held something unofficial such as the many years of informal gatherings to eat, drink, roller... Read more →
A new Search Engine from former Googlers is named Cuil and pronounced like cool. While it may be a alright new search engine but with more flashy results, I think that today's creative ways of spelling cool are getting tired... Read more →
Details on how to get AutoCAD R14 to run on Windows Vista Read more →
Thank you Lee Ambrosius for updating the excellent resource. System Variables List Updated for AutoCAD R12 through AutoCAD 2009 The AutoCAD system variable list is located at: http://www.hyperpics.com/system_variables The AutoCAD command list is located at: http://www.hyperpics.com/commands/ Read more →
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... Read more →
Effective today July 25, 2008, Autodesk Subscription members, as part of their benefits, can download the following new feature releases: AutoCAD® 2009 AutoCAD® 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack (detailed overview of this Bonus Pack planned to be posted today on this... Read more →
No firm answer provided yet, but Ursula provides details that may lead to you finding out the answer to that question in her blog In the Pipes in her post Drum roll please . . . Cheers, Shaan (who used... Read more →
At least around my neck of the woods which is just South of Salt Lake City Utah the temperatures have been hot with it predicted to be 101 today and muggy to boot. For those that are also in the... Read more →
Google GOOFled on Streetview results when I checked the Autodesk offices in San Rafael California. Read more →
The article was mentioning John Walker for his engineers approach to dieting with the Hackers Diet. I am sure John would get a chuckle out of this article but he is without Internet right now as he steams on a... Read more →
Marcelo Eder Cunha an Architect from Brazil in a nice feature article in CGSociety describes his process for creating a architectural design for the cover of Ballistic Publishing’s ELEMENTAL3 “Homage to Sidonio Porto”. Link to article from CGSociety Parabéns a... Read more →
Kate Morrical posted that her AutoCAD LT webcast recording is now available to watch by those that were unable to attend. The I didn’t know LT could do that! was held on July 16th, 2008. This was the first AutoCAD... Read more →
Just mentioning for those that did not know I have a new title. I am is the Autodesk Platform Technology Evangelist and a user of many Autodesk products with time spent in a design seat as a customer. My job... Read more →
Au is also the symbol on the table of periodic elements for Gold which I find fitting as AU is a golden opportunity. :-) http://au.autodesk.com/ The class schedule for Autodesk University 2008 has been published on the AU blog by... Read more →
I created a fun drawing back during AutoCAD 2007 to show off the mental ray rendering engine that had been added to AutoCAD 2007. Seeing the then updated rendering engine and the power and quality like its fellow Autodesk rendering... Read more →
AutoCAD HATCH objects are probably one of the most commonly used of the AutoCAD objects, but they do have some limitations and reported issues. We are looking for examples of problems with AutoCAD HATCH objects so we can research further... Read more →
I am curious and would like to speak with customers that use a 3D scanner or print to a 3D rapid prototyping printer in their AutoCAD workflow. If you use these technologies , please send me an email. Cheers, Shaan Read more →
Here is a AutoCAD DWG drawing file created back in 2002 for fun and testing by Aaron Johnson and recently updated by me. I have provided the DWF as well as the DWG for download and use for fun. aMaze... Read more →
Lee Ambrosius has updated the AutoCAD Command Map on his website for those wanting to search and see the command history since AutoCAD R12 and what has been added, modified, or deprecated through the many years. This project is near... Read more →
My blog hosting service Typepad threw a curve ball at me that they had problems with the large amounts RSS traffic my blog generated and whined about it. I have since found a solution to update my feeds on Feedburner.... Read more →
AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009 Update 1 has been released to customers to improve the product experience. Read more →