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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. This will be the 13th annual event so I hope nobody is superstitious. This should be quite a experience in the 100F+ degree heat surrounded by nothing but flat white salt and people launching up to 200+ pound rockets to... 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 balance between speed and responsiveness, Windows Vista and SP1 deliver a level of performance that has the greatest positive impact on the system’s usability.This guide looks at the following areas of performance improvement: Making configuration changes that help a computer... 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 all nice and rendered immediately. It is pretty cool and gives a glimpse at house a company in the future may allow simple drag drop or changes to be reflected without having to know 3D design and using a rendering/visualization... 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 3D modeling in AutoCAD, and maybe discuss about the future too! Guillermo will be attending Siggraph (LA Convention Center) from August 12th to August 15th2008, and is willing to meet as many users as possible (and can definitely visit you... 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 coaster riding, or going out on the town but the CAD Geekfest has quickly turned into a photo trek. This year I wanted to make the offering a little more detailed and look for fellow shutterbugs and arrange car pools... 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 no matter the technology, service, or object they are used by. Be Kewl -Shaan wearing his Kühl brand hiking shirt. 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 AutoCAD 2009. The download is about 80MB. AutoCAD 2009 Subscription Bonus Pack – Customer Wishlist Enhancements Extend the capability of AutoCAD® 2009 with this bonus pack that offers some highly requested AUGI wishlist items before the next AutoCAD release. The... 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 blog) AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008 PISTE Import Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008 AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009 PISTE Import Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009 Data Management e-Learning Site Design – Pipes e-Learning Transportation – Alignments e-Learning Transportation - Assemblies... 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 to design process plant piping) 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 heat or just need an excuse to have fun this ones for you. Beat the Heat - Frozen Beer on a Stick and Beer Ice Cream Photo Erincooks 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 nuclear powered ship crushing ice and bumping polar bears to the North Pole for the best possible solar eclipse viewing. Steve Jobs' Diet Secrets (Forbes.com) John Walker Bound for North Pole Nuclear Ninety North: Fourmilab Unattended 2008-07-19 to 2008-08-06 John... 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 Marcelo! 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 LT webcast to share tips, tricks, and shortcuts for users of AutoCAD LT. Kate is a maestro with AutoCAD LT and has a blog dedicated to AutoCAD LT named LT Unlimited. Watch AutoCAD LT Webcast now! 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 is to listen and speak with customers about what they use, like, and dislike as well as speed bumps in their current workflow that we might be able to help solve together. I also research problems and work with testing... 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 Joseph Wurcher BLAUG: http://au.autodesk.com/ AU 2008 Session Catalog! AU 2008 Session Catalog (XLS format) current only for right now and subject to change. For AutoCAD alone there are 136 sessions accounting for over 13,410 minutes. AutoCAD PowerTrack 3D—Create, Modify and... 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 engines in 3ds max was something to be shown. When I showed it at one location in Asia people thought I was fooling them, but I showed them step by step and convinced them it was indeed AutoCAD rendering. If... 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 based on the customer examples we receive. We know there are some issues related due to extreme/large coordinates (object a great distance from the origin 0,0) and the CPU FPU Floating Point precision and rounding but want all examples. If... 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 as seen in AutoCAD 2009 Download aMaze.dwg 2MB Download Maze.dwf View it in Freewheel nothing to install works in most browsers on most operating systems. I updated the link so you do not need to log into Freewheel. When you... 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 and dear to my heart and was started 10 years ago when I started at Autodesk. I figured surely there must be one master command list with history, but there was not and I set out in my free time... 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. Please make sure to update your RSS feedreader to the following to stay connected to this blog. The link in AutoCAD Communication Center will remain fine. http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/rss.xml or http://feeds.feedburner.com/BetweenTheLines Thank you for reading and commenting through the years. Read more →
AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009 Update 1 has been released to customers to improve the product experience. Read more →
