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A Week Off

Autodesk is closed this week so I am trying to relax, unwind, and enjoy the time. For the past few days I have been hiking around Southern Utah from Capital Reef, to Escalante, and then over to Bryce Canyon. Read more →

The Best, the Rest, the Rare 100 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know

This post on cad-notes.com has to be the best AutoCAD blog post I have seen this year. Read more →

Autodesk Design Suite

How SWEET it is! The Autodesk Design Suite was announced and made available today. Designed for architects and designers who want enhanced concept design, sketching and best-in-class 3D visualization capabilities to complement a familiar AutoCAD workflow. Products in the Autodesk Design Suite AutoCAD Alias Sketch for AutoCAD 3ds Max Design Autodesk Showcase Alias Design Read more →

AutoCAD eTransmit Secret Ninja Trick the Text Template

Have you ever wondered how you can pre-populate your custom notes included in an eTransmit transmittal package? This is one of those secret AutoCAD Ninja trick that is not well known. Read more →

AutoCAD and Revit Interoperability at AIA

AutoCAD Product Manager Guillermo Melantoni will be presenting at the 2010 AIA Convention this week in Miami. If you are interested in AutoCAD as well as AutoCAD interoperability with Revit, plan to see Guillermo. Friday June 11th – Main Theater - AutoCAD – Revit Interop. from 4:00 – 4:30PM Read more →

Do You Use CAD Software and Point Cloud Data?

The AutoCAD Product Design & Usability Team is looking for participants for a research study focusing on users who both use CAD software and Point Cloud data and how they currently incorporate the point cloud data into their work.. Read more →

AutoCAD Data Extraction: Take Your Drawing to the Next Level

This is a guest post is by Edwin Prakoso of http://CAD-a-Blog.com. AutoCAD has been used as drafting tools for decades. In the beginning, people used AutoCAD to replace manual drafting table. Many people are still using it that way, at least in my country. I am not sure how people are using AutoCAD in your region today, but I believe many people are still using it that way. Many AutoCAD users forget that Autodesk has added many new features that can increase their productivity. Read more →

My Snagit 10 Giveaway

I seriously use Snagit every day for something and would have a hard and painful time producing documents, presentations, and much more without it. A screen capture tells a thousand words and crosses language barriers. Read more →

AutoCAD 2011 Yin-Yang Symbol Creation Exercise & More

This post is not on Chinese philosophy, but how to create the well known Yin-Yang symbol in AutoCAD in six simple steps. I had some extra energy today and put this together quickly. The exercise shows how easy it can be using simple AutoCAD command methods to create cool geometry. This would be a good simple exercise for students and those just learning AutoCAD. Read more →

Autodesk Design Review for the Apple iPad...

I was recently asked for the popular Autodesk Design Review product from Autodesk (which is free) is currently Windows based, to be considered for other platforms. It appears the Autodesk Labs Team is working on some cool things and discuss the possibility of Autodesk Design Review on the Apple iPad. Read more →

Troubleshooting AutoCAD Graphics Issues

Randy Young, the Graphics System Software Quality Assurance Engineering lead guru for the AutoCAD Team wrote an excellent article on solving the worlds troubles, well at least AutoCAD Graphics related ones. Read more →

AUGI AutoCAD Wish List May 2010 Voting Results

The voting has completed and the votes tallied for the top ten AUGI May 2010 AutoCAD Wish List items nominated by AUGI members. Make sure to get involved with the AutoCAD Wish List. Read more →

AutoCAD 2011 ~ POP Goes the Material!

In AutoCAD 2011 Autodesk has worked to break the myth of AutoCAD being just another 2D application. This year the AutoCAD materials now show bump maps real time in the viewport. This is achieved by enabling The Advance Material effect. The effect is normally enabled by default but if it is not you can enable it by doing the following. Read more →

Hadrian Beta 2 Live!

“Just what is Hadrian Shaan” I knew you would ask that question first. Hadrian was a Roman Emperor born in Rome in the year 76 AD and led a very interesting life with his architecture interests. OK, Hadrian the codename for the next release of AutoCAD Plant 3D which does about everything you need for process and plant design built on the powerful AutoCAD platform. Hadrian Beta 2 is available for download https://beta.autodesk.com. Read more →

AutoCAD Free Plugin of the Month for June 2010 ~ Dimension Patrol

Chances are it has happened to you when you received drawings from someone else you have dimensioned components but something does not add up. Hopefully you notice there is a discrepancy and the person has cheated with dimension value overrides or you could be headed for a headache in fabrication or construction. Stephen Preston Autodesk DevTech Americas Manager wrote a nice plugin that will help you identify these overridden dimensions as well as including all the source code to see how it was accomplished. Read more →