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Advertising Oops!

2 March 2008 at 9:49 pm » Comments (2)

I just spotted this image flash up on a banner advertisement on a CAD-related site. At first glance, I thought it was a nasty Autodesk ad promoting Revit (it's on ...more »

Customer Service 3 – On Hold

2 March 2008 at 4:23 pm » Comments (1)

What's the longest you've waited on hold? I broke my own personal best last week when I rang my bank. I phoned up, went through the menu system, typed in ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 5 – Floating Toolbars

2 March 2008 at 11:28 am » Comments (4)

There are many areas of AutoCAD 2009's new user interface that pointlessly waste your screen space. Floating toolbars do not. You have probably already noticed that AutoCAD 2009 concentrates on ...more »

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AutoCAD 2010 users: pull-down menus - is your menu bar turned on (MENUBAR=1)?
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- Yes (other)
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Revit users: are you generally using the Ribbon?
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Inventor users: are you generally using the Ribbon?
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AutoCAD users: are you generally using the Ribbon?
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- No (using an earlier release for other reasons)
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Which of these is most evil? (Choose up to 3).
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- Autodesk
- Dell
- Disney
- Gaahl
- Google
- Microsoft
- Miley Cyrus
- RIAA/IFPI/MPAA
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- Sony
- Steve Johnson
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What is your relationship to Autodesk?
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- Potential Autodesk customer
- Autodesk-related author/writer/blogger
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- Pre-release tester of Autodesk products
- Autodesk employee
- Former Autodesk employee
- Autodesk competitor's employee
- Other relationship to Autodesk competitor
- Other relationship to Autodesk
- No relationship to Autodesk at all
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A strange mix of AutoCAD, music, image manipulation and video

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Daily Archives: March 2nd, 2008

Advertising Oops!

Customer Service 3 – On Hold

AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 5 – Floating Toolbars

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