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Monthly Archives: May 2008

AutoCAD 2009 – Do your old drawings need recovery?

30 May 2008 at 4:04 pm » Comments (2)

I've seen quite a few complaints that AutoCAD 2009 refuses to open some drawings saved in 2000 or 2004 format unless the Recover command has been used on them. Autodesk ...more »

Video – Misheard lyrics

28 May 2008 at 3:35 pm » Comments (0)

This blog is supposed to a strange mix of AutoCAD, music, image manipulation and video, but so far it has been a bit light on in the latter three categories. ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – How do you use the Ribbon?

28 May 2008 at 3:08 pm » Comments (17)

It would appear from comments made on the Autodesk newsgroups that a lot of AutoCAD 2009 users have their Ribbons turned off. That's actually one of eight possible states for ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Reaction Part 3

28 May 2008 at 2:58 pm » Comments (0)

I've closed the poll asking for your initial reactions to the shipping release of AutoCAD 2009. It's interesting to compare it with your reactions when asked to speculate prior to ...more »

Gaahl’s Tr00 Life Adventures Week 5

14 May 2008 at 12:29 pm » Comments (1)

In this week's adventure, Gaahl goes shopping. No, it's not your eyes, the background image is fuzzy. A couple of things may need explaining. According to his mother, Gaahl is vegetarian ...more »

Autodesk University is moving!

12 May 2008 at 12:17 pm » Comments (9)

No, I don't mean it's a deeply emotional experience, however true that may be for certain CAD geeks (who will remain nameless to protect the dorky). What I mean is ...more »

Headline of the day 2

9 May 2008 at 1:32 pm » Comments (0)

This headline amuses me. Sorry, I can't help it, I grew up on British double entendre comedy! more »

AutoCAD 2009 – Drawing integrity tip – urgent!

5 May 2008 at 8:50 pm » Comments (0)

AutoCAD 2009 users, I strongly suggest you go and set the new system variable OPENPARTIAL to 0. Now. Why? Because if it's set to the default value of 1, purging can ...more »

Gaahl’s Tr00 Life Adventures Week 4

2 May 2008 at 2:12 pm » Comments (0)

In this week's adventure, Gaahl gets a new job. The original Gaahl photograph is by Peter Beste. more »

AutoCAD 2009 – Putting things back to normal revisited

1 May 2008 at 9:52 am » Comments (0)

I see Lynn Allen has written a post explaining how to restore the "classic" interface. I commend Lynn for doing this in response to the requests she's been receiving. It ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Reaction Part 2

1 May 2008 at 9:29 am » Comments (0)

I won't beat about the bush, AutoCAD 2009 is getting a pretty hostile reaction out there. Have a look at Autodesk's AutoCAD 2009 newsgroup, for example. It's true that many ...more »