I’ve just added a poll asking this question. Actually, the poll question is rather longer than that, because I want to make it as unambiguous as possible. Other polls I’ve seen on this subject, including ones by Autodesk and Cadalyst, have always left room for speculation about what a given answer would actually mean. [...]
 30 July 2008, 11:43 am |  One comment | Tags: 12-Month Release Cycle, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Polls | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Polls I’ve closed the poll asking you to choose the top three things you like about AutoCAD 2009. For some reason it wasn’t getting many votes. Only 37 people participated, rather less than many other polls here, and I’ve now put it out of its misery. The small sample size makes the results of dubious [...] 25 July 2008, 1:48 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, Sweetness and Light, User Reaction | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls In case you missed it on WorldCAD Access, Dave Weisberg has released a history of CAD as a free book on-line. It is called The Engineering Design Revolution and subtitled The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering. I don’t like regurgitating things from other blogs, but this is [...] 24 July 2008, 9:32 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Books, CAD History, Free Stuff, Good Causes | Category: Other Blogs A discussion I’ve been having elsewhere has prompted me to add two new polls (see right). I know that most of you, being AutoCAD users, are also Windows users. I’m interested to know how often you exchange data (e.g. DWG, DXF, DWF, PDF, etc) with users of other operating systems, specifically Linux and Mac [...] 24 July 2008, 8:59 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Operating Systems, Polls | Category: AutoCAD, Interoperability, Polls When it’s an Update. This year, Service Packs are called Updates, and the first one for AutoCAD is out now. The 32-bit version is here and the 64-bit version is here. The Update includes LT, but there is no news yet about Updates for any of the vertical AutoCAD variants. As usual, read the [...] 21 July 2008, 4:40 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Service Pack, Update | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009 OK, so I’m a long way from being the first to comment on this, but maybe I’ll be the last? Don’t count on it. In the unlikely event that this is the only CAD blog you ever read, you may be unaware that Autodesk and Bentley have decided to swap code so their respective [...] 11 July 2008, 9:29 pm | One comment | Tags: Autodesk, Bentley, Interoperability, ODA | Category: Autodesk, Bentley, Interoperability Here’s another video I have done to the music of Swedish metal band Opeth (the first one is here). This band’s latest album, Watershed, does not come with conventional lyrics in the booklet, but rather a page full of rune-type characters. There are actually two different pages in different editions of the album, and [...] 11 July 2008, 8:44 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Fun, Image manipulation, Music, Opeth, Pictures, Video | Category: Fun, Image manipulation, Music, Video I’ve closed the poll about the button images. It’s a general thumbs-down from you on that particular change, albeit not a spectacularly vehement one. I agree with most of you. The images themselves don’t offend me greatly, but their role in making things harder to find means that Autodesk erected another unnecessary barrier to [...] 11 July 2008, 3:10 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, User Interface, User Reaction | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls I’ve added a poll that asks you to choose the best things about AutoCAD 2009. I’ve come up with a list of 25 features that are new, improved or otherwise changed in AutoCAD 2009. You can choose up to 3 items from the list. 11 July 2008, 2:53 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, Sweetness and Light, User Reaction | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls It’s starting to look a bit negative around here, and it is only going to get more negative when I start describing the details of my still-unresolved Autodesk customer service debacle. So here’s something to provide a bit of balance. What do you like best about AutoCAD 2009? What is better, faster, easier, more [...] 9 July 2008, 1:52 pm |  10 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, Sweetness and Light, User Reaction | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls I’ve opened a poll asking for your opinion about whether the 12-month release cycle of AutoCAD and its variants is harmful to the quality of the software that Autodesk is providing. I won’t express my own opinion on this subject here yet, but will do so later, once the poll is closed. In the [...] 4 July 2008, 4:09 pm | 16 comments | Tags: 12-Month Release Cycle, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Polls | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Polls This week, save the last dance for Gaahl. The original Gaahl photograph is by Peter Beste. 3 July 2008, 4:40 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Fun, Gaahl, Image manipulation, Metal, Music | Category: Fun, Image manipulation, Music, Pictures I’ve closed the poll for those of you who are using 2009 with the Ribbon turned off to show us the reasons why. The top 10 choices were: Tab concept means extra clicks (65%) Uses up too much screen space (64%) No advantage over existing methods (64%) Dislike concept of hiding tools – want [...] 1 July 2008, 12:54 pm | 6 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Button Images, Ribbon, User Interface, User Reaction | Category: AU2009, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls |
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