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Do you have a 3DConnexion device (3D ‘mouse’) and use it in AutoCAD or AutoCAD-based products? What do you think of the way it works in the most recent releases of AutoCAD? From AutoCAD 2011 on, Autodesk provided built-in support for these devices. Has that made things better or worse than in earlier releases? [...]  29 April 2011, 11:09 am |  8 comments | Tags: 3D Mouse, 3DConnexion | Category: 3D, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD 2012, Comments, Customer Service, Other Autodesk Products, Other Products Personally, I find most April fool jokes to be pretty lame. I considered doing one myself, and had what I thought was a pretty convincing idea, but finally decided against it. Maybe next year. This year, there was one definite exception to the lameness rule. It was well set up, clever and funny. Siemens [...] 2 April 2010, 12:57 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Cluelessness, Siemens | Category: 3D, Autodesk, Cloud, Fail, Fun, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Rant, Web Stuff Autodesk big cheese Carl Bass gets a friendly interview on NBC’s Press:Here (amusing name, “press colon here”). It’s kind of funny seeing CAD described by non-CAD people (the presenters, not Carl). Among other things, he discusses being fired by Carol Bartz, Autodesk’s role in Avatar, the benefits of piracy, iPhones, 3D printing, open source [...] 9 March 2010, 2:08 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Avatar, Carl Bass, Carol Bartz, Video | Category: 3D, Autodesk, Other Sites, Video James, you don’t know me, but I see you have been getting involved in CAD events lately, which is my area of interest. Autodesk University 2009 attendees got a sneak preview of Avatar and you were a key speaker at Solidworks World 2010. I absolutely loved Avatar. It’s the only film I’ve ever seen [...] 8 February 2010, 11:32 pm | 7 comments | Tags: Avatar, James Cameron, Roger Dean | Category: 3D, Fail, Review, Thoughts 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 |
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Let’s critique AutoCAD’s parametric constraints
One of the big-ticket features of AutoCAD 2010 was parametric constraints. This was old hat for many applications, even some based on AutoCAD like Mechanical Desktop. Parametrics and constraints already existed in vanilla AutoCAD in the guise of dynamic blocks, but this was the first time ordinary AutoCAD allowed ordinary AutoCAD objects to be constrained and linked [...]