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Season's Greetings

The Autodesk 2010 holiday card animation. Read more →

AutoCAD Exchange Expert of the Week - Emmanuel Garcia

T'was the week before Christmas and all through the design house, no answers were found for that burning AutoCAD question not even with right-click on your mouse. The Polylines and Splines were hung from the landscaped trees with care in hopes the AutoCAD Expert of the Week would soon be there. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. –Shaan Read more →

AutoCAD for Mac Update 1 Released

The first Update for AutoCAD for Mac has just been released for download. Read more →

Entered the Game Grid Friday and a 1982 Flashback

On Friday December 17th, 2010 over one hundred Autodesk employees in San Francisco went and seen the opening of the new TRON: Legacy movie in beautiful IMAX 3D at the Metreon. Both Autodesk with AutoCAD and the original TRON sprang upon the world back in 1982. Twenty Eight years later Autodesk, AutoCAD, and TRON are still here. In 2010 TRON and Autodesk share common technology and visualization ties. Read more →

Resource for AutoCAD Network Administrators

I have known Dave Stein for well over ten years and he has always pushed the envelope of known techniques to tame large AutoCAD network installations in addition to being a good coder, and funny guy who calls them as he sees them. Now Dave has published a book for AutoCAD Network Administrators to share his knowledge in The AutoCAD Network Administrator's Bible, 2011 Edition. It is a Kindle eBook which can be read on almost any device using the free Kindle reader such as PC, Mac, iPhone, Android, etc. It is right priced at $9.99. Read more →

Factory Layout Optimization in AutoCAD

Designing a factory layout is a complicated job to do. Now you can install the free Autodesk Labs Factory Layout Optimization tool for AutoCAD and make your factory layout designing life much easier. Read more →

AutoCAD WS Mobile 1.1 is Live

AutoCAD WS Mobile update 1.1 to our AutoCAD WS mobile application is now available for download on the iTunes App Store (http://autode.sk/adicd2) for iOS devices such as the iPhone, IPad, and the IPod Touch..AutoCAD WS is free and also available ion a browser version http://ww.autocadws.com. Read more →

Autodesk University 2010 is Wrapping Up

It has been a great Autodesk University this year. Great attendance of over 7000 in person and around 20,000 at AU Virtual, great general session, great keynotes, great classes and speakers, great beer bust, great food, great mixer and social events, and an awesome preview of the upcoming TRON: Legacy movie. Read more →

AUGI 2010 Top Ten for AutoCAD

Last night at the AUGI Annual Meeting at Autodesk University 2010 Several Autodesk product wish lists were presented to Autodesk teams. AUGI members nominated and voted throughout the year their top wish list items. Receiving the list from AUGI incoming President David Harrington was Amy Bunszel Sr. Director, AutoCAD. Read more →