Any drawing created in AutoCAD 2008 and later which uses Multileaders will present problems to users of AutoCAD 2007 and earlier. The users of the earlier release will find that rather than having leaders to deal with, they have proxy objects. As a result, it is impossible to edit these leaders in any way [...]
 20 September 2010, 7:13 pm |  Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Bug, Multileaders, Tip, Wipeouts | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, Bug, Interoperability, Tip In February 2009, I ran some polls here that are relevant to the discussion regarding the US court system’s most recent backflip in the Vernor v. Autodesk legal saga. Here is a reminder of the results. In April 2009, I ran another set of polls that are also relevant, as they provide an [...] 17 September 2010, 4:37 pm |  3 comments | Tags: Consumer rights, Ownership, Vernor | Category: Autodesk, Legal, Polls As I have stated before, I believe Autodesk to be in the right (morally, not legally) in its battle to prevent Vernor’s resale of old, upgraded copies of Release 14. In the latest installment, Autodesk has won its appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. There will be be further legal moves yet, [...] 15 September 2010, 5:16 pm | 13 comments | Tags: EULA, Licensing, Vernor | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Fail, Legal, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Rant From time to time, I have been known to be critical of companies, products, policies, publications, and even people (although I do try to “play the ball, not the man”). If somebody objects to what I write here, what can they do about it? They have several possible options. Post a comment in direct response to [...] Deelip has just published an extensive interview with several Autodesk people about AutoCAD for the Mac. Deelip had a good set of questions and I suggest you read the whole thing, but if it’s all too tl;dr for you, then here is the lazy reader’s version of what Autodesk had to say: The AutoCAD [...] 13 September 2010, 3:25 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD for Linux, AutoCAD for Mac, AutoCAD WS, Deelip Menezes | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Development, Interview, Linux, Other Blogs, Spin Thanks to all entrants in the AutoCAD WS contest. I have now closed the entries and added a poll (see right). Although I did state that there would be no prize for this contest, I have some exciting news! I am happy to announce that thanks to an exclusive* arrangement with Autodesk, the winner [...] 10 September 2010, 10:27 am | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD WS, Contest, Fine print | Category: Announcement, Cloud, Fun, Polls, Web Stuff, Win As I described earlier, Autodesk recalled AutoCAD 2011 Update 1 because it killed AutoCAD under certain circumstances (e.g. plotting with the layer palette open). Now there’s a fixed version available for AutoCAD and LT. There is no news yet about Updates for vertical AutoCAD variants. If you have installed Update 1 and the hotfix, you [...] 8 September 2010, 12:49 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Update | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD 2011, Bug, Other Blogs, Tip Autodesk’s linking app to allow iThings to connect to Project Butterfly is called AutoCAD WS. Never mind the “AutoCAD”, that’s just there to confuse matters. What does the “WS” stand for? William Shatner, perhaps? There’s no official answer, but I thought it might be fun to run a contest for the most appropriate and/or [...] In a post on WorldCAD Access, Jay Vleeschhouwer makes some reasonable observations. However, the timing of the 1990s Autodesk / Mac history looks all wrong to me. Jay quotes himself from a 2008 note: …until about the mid-1990s Autodesk did have a reasonable presence on the Mac … commitment waned when Apple’s fortunes faded [...] 6 September 2010, 1:02 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Jay Vleeschhouwer, WorldCAD Access | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Nostalgia, Other Blogs Good news! Autodesk has announced an app that will link iPads and iPhones to Project Butterfly. This provides viewing, markup and limited editing facilities. Bad news! Autodesk has decide to call it AutoCAD WS, which is bordering on the fraudulent. It’s not AutoCAD, is nothing like it, and is unlikely to ever be anything like [...] 3 September 2010, 5:28 pm | 2 comments | Tags: Flash, He's going to save every one of us, Lulz, WTF? | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Cloud, Fail, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Spin, Web Stuff According to Autodesk, the forthcoming OS X version of AutoCAD has “many of the powerful AutoCAD features and functionality.” So what doesn’t it have? What are the holes? Autodesk hasn’t bothered to let me know a single thing about this software, so I guess I’ll just indulge in some irresponsible and uninformed speculation, based [...] 1 September 2010, 6:06 pm | 8 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac | Category: Apple, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Customisation, Spin, Thoughts When is AutoCAD nor AutoCAD? When it’s AutoCAD WS. But it’s not quite that simple. I’ve been correcting people for months when they say things like “Project Butterfly is AutoCAD on the Cloud.” No, it’s not. It’s a DWG editor of sorts, but anybody who has used both will know that it’s not AutoCAD [...] 1 September 2010, 5:04 pm | 5 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD WS, Cloud, Confusion, Inventor, Marketing, Project Butterfly, Revit, Verticals | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design, TrueView |
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Is AutoCAD stability getting better or worse?
The term “stability” is sometimes used as a euphemism to refer to how many bugs a program has. I don’t use the word in that way. To me, stability is a measure of a program’s basic ability to keep functioning without crashing or corrupting data. A program can have a thousand tiny irritating bugs [...]