There are now quite a few file types that you can attach to an AutoCAD drawing as a reference, in the same way that you can attach other drawings as xrefs. We’ve been able to attach other drawings since Release 11 (1990) and images since Release 14 (1997), but every release since 2007 has [...]
 30 April 2009, 10:36 pm |  One comment | Tags: Attachment, AutoCAD, DGN, DWF, DWFx, Interoperability, Missing Parts, PDF, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, Bug, Interoperability, Tip I have been in touch with various people at Autodesk about Raster Design 2010′s failure to work in a mixed standalone/network environment. These people have all been suitably apologetic, they assure me it wasn’t a deliberate move on Autodesk’s part, and that moves are afoot to provide a solution fairly soon. For example: Our [...] 27 April 2009, 12:00 am |  3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Licensing, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design Evan Yares has raised an interesting point about the insolvency clause in Autodesk’s End User License Agreement. Please read the whole thing, but the gist is that there’s a clause where if you get into financial difficulties, Autodesk will do its bit to help you out in times of trouble by taking away your software [...] 22 April 2009, 6:23 pm | 5 comments | Tags: Autodesk, EULA, Evan Yares, Legal, Licensing, R. Paul Waddington | Category: Autodesk, Legal, Other Blogs, Polls I was horrified to learn (in this Autodesk Discussion Group thread) that Autodesk has changed the rules as far as the way Raster Design licenses are handled. It’s quite possible that Autodesk has also done this with other products that I’m not yet aware of. If so, please comment and let me know. If [...] 20 April 2009, 4:40 pm | 10 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Idiocy, Licensing, Rant, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD 2010, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Rant, Raster Design This post is not about the new SpacePilot PRO 3D controller from 3Dconnexion (a division of Logitech). This post is about the Internet coverage of the launch of that new device, journalism, blogging, freebies and ethics. It has long been common practice for companies to give out free stuff to journalists. Free gadgets, free [...] 17 April 2009, 4:41 pm | 12 comments | Tags: AU2006, Autodesk University, Blogging, CAD Blogs, Ethics, Freebies, Journalism, Other Blogs, Review, SpacePilot | Category: Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Review, Thoughts, Writing You have probably seen blog posts about the Autodesk Assistance Program (see the FAQ PDF), promoted as a hand-up for the less fortunate who find themselves unemployed as a result of the current financial environment. The Autodesk PR makes it clear that the free software on offer is a 13-month student license. However, the [...] 17 April 2009, 1:38 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Assistance Program, Education, Plot Stamp | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Tip What a Mesh is another new Autodesk blog, this time from Autodesk 3D guru Guillermo Melantoni. You may remember Guillermo mentioning his forthcoming blog in my A gaggle of geeks video, and now it has arrived. You can also see Guillermo in action in several videos about AutoCAD 2010′s new 3D mesh capabilities on [...] 16 April 2009, 12:51 pm | Leave a comment | Category: 3D, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Other Blogs I’ve added a link to Without A Net, a new blog on support issues, technical solutions, fixes, and tips for AutoCAD. It’s run by Tom Stoeckel, global technical lead for AutoCAD product support. In my limited experience, I’ve found Tom to be a fine fellow with his customers’ needs at heart. This blog promises [...] 16 April 2009, 12:30 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Customer Service, Other Blogs | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Customer Service, Other Blogs Evan Yares has provided more information on the incident I mentioned in my last post. Here it is: It was years ago. My guess was that the person who did it was just trying to spider the website pages, for marketing research, and didn’t realize he got all the libraries too. In any [...] 16 April 2009, 11:48 am | Leave a comment | Tags: Autodesk, EULA, Evan Yares, Licensing, ODA, Public Relations | Category: Autodesk, Interoperability, Legal, Thoughts I’ve always found it entertaining when the lawyers of CAD companies do their best to make their clients look like total jerks. The opening shots as presented by Evan Yares in his proposed ODA class-action lawsuit indicate that there is another rich source of recreational reading on its way. I’m sure it’s no fun [...] 15 April 2009, 4:44 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Autodesk, EULA, Evan Yares, Licensing, ODA, Polls, Public Relations | Category: Autodesk, Interoperability, Legal, Polls I’m doing my bit to reduce the impact of the global financial crisis. Yesterday, I went out and bought a couple of new 24″ monitors to replace my perfectly functional pair of 19″ LCDs. It now looks like I’m facing a huge wall of pixels and I don’t quite know where to look, but [...] 15 April 2009, 2:27 pm | 8 comments | Tags: Hardware, Monitor | Category: Hardware, Navel Gazing, Thoughts, Tip I generally avoid the still-awful Autodesk discussion groups these days, but I do hop in from time to time in the vain hope of seeing some improvement. In doing so, I occasionally pick up a gem, and that happened today. I think this one deserves a wider audience, so here it is. In AutoCAD [...] 3 April 2009, 3:13 pm | 5 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, InfoCenter, Newsgroups, Off Switch, Registry | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Customisation, Performance |
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