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AUGI AutoCAD Wish List Top Ten Cycle One February 2009

I want to thank AUGI’s President Mark Kiker, the dedicated and hard working AUGI AutoCAD Wish List volunteer Brenda Richardson, and the AUGI membership for another great cycle of nomination and voting for the AutoCAD Wish List. While I cannot provide details on future development publicly, I can say you will be pleased at our listening and knocking more items off the Wish List. You, the user of our products are vital to defining the direction and future functionality of our products. We sincerely appreciate your helping shape the future of Autodesk products! Read more →

AutoCAD 2010 Language Packs

I wanted to point out an important detail in my blog post AutoCAD 2010 Language Packs German and French Available You can only install within language families currently. Read more →

AutoCAD for the Mac

I have in the past posted about AutoCAD on the Apple Mac platform. Read more →

AutoCAD 2010 Getting Sticky with Ribbon Sticky Panels

In AutoCAD 2010 there is now a new ribbon option we call sticky panels. You can now tear off a ribbon panel to the drawing area. It will remain on your drawing area much like a toolbar would. Read more →

AutoCAD Exchange News Michael Beall is AutoCAD Expert of the Week and New TeknoChronicles Episode

Have an AutoCAD question, you have the opportunity to ask a master of AutoCAD on the AutoCAD Exchange site is the Ask an Expert section. The AutoCAD Exchange is free after signing up and contains many great resources and opportunities for networking. This week the expert is well known “The AutoCAD Trainer Guy” Michael Beall. Read more →

Free Autodesk Imagine Virtual Event Today

Tuesday May 19, 2009 10:00 AM. – 5:00 PM. EDT (7:00 AM – 2:00 PM. PDT) There will be many presentations as well as Autodesk employees posted in the virtual booths to take your questions on the many new products. I hope to “virtually” see you there as I will be participating in the chat sessions such as “Straight Talk about AutoCAD 2010 Benefits“. Sign Up Now Cheers, Shaan PS: Only 196 days until Autodesk University 2009! Read more →

Focusing on the AutoCAD Fantastic Four

In June, I will begin to focus on my Autodesk Platform Technology Evangelist position and less on managing all Autodesk product betas. Read more →

Autodesk Imagine Virtual Event May 19th, 2009

The Autodesk Imagine Virtual Event is an online live event with interactive chat sessions included. Tuesday May 19, 2009 Read more →

Autodesk MyFeedback Portal and Forums Closing May 30th 2009

Our current MyFeedback platform used for running Autodesk product betas has grown way beyond its originally designed structure and we are looking to introduce you to a new Autodesk Feedback Community over the next few month. We are also reorganizing the management of Autodesk betas. Beta projects will be managed individually on this new community by each of the four Autodesk Divisions. We will be retiring MyFeedback on May 30th 2009. We will be moving future betas to our new... Read more →

Get Certified with the 2010 Beta Exams for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit Architecture, and AutoCAD Civil 3D

The Autodesk Professional Certification program is pleased to announce the release of the 2010 beta exams for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit Architecture, and AutoCAD Civil 3D. Read more →

AutoCAD 2009 Update 3 Released Today

In an effort to continue to improve the quality of our products we are releasing a free AutoCAD 2009 Update 3 after it has completed customer beta testing. This update (Service Pack) includes both AutoCAD Update 1 & Update 2. Read more →

MEASUREGEOM Hotfix Released for AutoCAD 2010 Products

There is a new hotfix in response to Customer Error Reporting (CER) reports we have received from customers. This solution applies to all AutoCAD 2010 based products such as AutoCAD 2010,AutoCAD LT 2010, AutoCAD Architecture 2010, AutoCAD Mechanical 2010, DWG TrueView 2010, and more listed in the ReadMe. Read more →

AutoCAD 2010 - Rotate Layout View with Viewport, Like a Ninja

AutoCAD customers have been asking for the option to rotate the view with their associated viewport. This was a top item in the AUGI AutoCAD Wish List June 2007 submitted by Bill N. With AutoCAD 2010 we have added the ability to rotate objects in a viewport with the viewport easily without having to become a UCS ninja master. Read more →

Creating Complex Boundaries with AutoCAD and 2D Hand Rendering Styling

I was doing some planning work for a new pond in my backyard and thought I would share a cool tip. When drawing a 2D layout of my yard’s landscaping I was presented with the problem of duplicating the flowerbeds border with the grass regions. Instead of copying and drawing outlines which could cause problems with the splines I used for the curved shapes, I used the trick of creating a new boundary polyline with a Hatch. Below is a tutorial on how you can do the same trick and as a bonus showed my design styled in Autodesk Impression. Read more →

We Want Your Feedback on Transparency Support in AutoCAD

The AutoCAD Product Design and Usability Group would appreciate your feedback and input on using Transparency in AutoCAD. Currently there is no Object Transparency support in AutoCAD but we are researching this for consideration in the future. Read more →

New TeknoChronicles of Z - Episode 4: Rabid Prototyping

A new episode of the TeknoChronicles of Z has been posted on the AutoCAD Exchange as well as YouTube. This is the fourth episode and titled “Rabid Prototyping” Take a break and watch this video to get a mid-week laugh. Read more →

Vote for AU 2009 Sessions!

Hopefully you got your Autodesk University 2009 session proposals submitted by this last weekends deadline if not there is always next year. There were more proposals this year to review than for last years AU 2008. Now is the time to go vote for the sessions you want for AU from the many submitted proposals. There are some really great proposals! Read more →

AutoCAD 2010 Test Dynamic Block

Now with AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010 in the Block Editor there is the ability to test your block speeding up the creation of powerful Dynamic Blocks. Read more →