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AutoCAD 2011 launch on 25 March

16 March 2010 at 10:36 am » Comments (7)

Just announced by Shaan Hurley via Twitter and Facebook: Busy on the final details for a special Autodesk event next week in San Francisco with some bloggers. http://www.autodesk.com/webcast Follow the link and ...more »

AutoCAD tip – which drawings use an xref?

15 March 2010 at 10:42 pm » Comments (5)

Here's a tip I just rediscovered while cleaning out my old emails. It applies to all recent AutoCAD releases. Let's say you have a drawing that you think has been used ...more »

Quick and dirty clicks and drags in AutoCAD

12 March 2010 at 2:19 pm » Comments (9)

I'm sure most of you draw your objects with great precision. But sometimes even the most precise among us may want to make a quick and dirty move or copy ...more »

Why don’t you use the current release?

8 March 2010 at 2:12 pm » Comments (11)

While a lot of you are running one of Autodesk's current-model products, there will be a very large portion of you that are using something older. This post is addressed ...more »

AutoCAD does a Cheshire Cat

19 February 2010 at 3:06 pm » Comments (4)

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat gradually disappears until nothing is left but its smile. The AutoCAD packaging has done the same thing over the years until now ...more »

How will you react to Autodesk’s new upgrade pricing?

8 February 2010 at 10:40 pm » Comments (31)

As I reported early last year, Autodesk is going to discourage you from paying for upgrades as and when you see fit. It is doing this by charging you 50% ...more »

Hope for drcauto LT Toolkit orphans

15 January 2010 at 12:20 pm » Comments (2)

LT Toolkit from the now-defunct drcauto was an add-on for AutoCAD LT that provided LISP and other capabilities that Autodesk disabled. Autodesk hated this, of course, but the late Gary ...more »

Does your AutoCAD get its wrods worng?

2 October 2009 at 11:06 am » Comments (5)

A problem I've seen affecting keyboard users (particularly fast ones) in recent AutoCADs (since 2006) is that the characters entered into the command line are not always the ones you ...more »

Ribbon acceptance in AutoCAD and Revit

9 September 2009 at 4:14 pm » Comments (19)

AutoCAD Ribbon use (and non-use) may have been the hottest topic on this blog to date, but it's a storm in a teacup compared with what has been going on ...more »

These messages are brought to you by AutoCAD

31 August 2009 at 11:39 am » Comments (7)

Over the past few releases, and particularly in AutoCAD 2009 and 2010, I have noticed an increase in the number of information notices (bubbles, warnings, task dialogs, Communication Center notices, ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 Update 1

21 August 2009 at 11:38 am » Comments (0)

Update 1, the first of Autodesk's Updates (formerly Service Packs) for AutoCAD 2010 is now out for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. Equivalent updates for various verticals will follow soon. The ...more »

AutoCAD virus protection update

14 August 2009 at 5:29 pm » Comments (2)

As I mentioned in my last post, I had some reservations about the code provided by Autodesk to deal with suspect acad.vlx and logo.gif files. Based on a suggestion from ...more »

Another AutoCAD malware warning

10 August 2009 at 4:58 pm » Comments (2)

Shaan Hurley has posted some useful information about another AutoCAD-based virus that is doing the rounds, and I strongly suggest you read it. However, I have some reservations about the ...more »

AutoCAD malware warning

9 July 2009 at 10:08 am » Comments (0)

There is a piece of malware out there written as an ObjectARX application, i.e. it will only affect AutoCAD users. It's a China-based adware client, which Andrew Brandt at the ...more »

The biggest DWG file I’ve ever seen

6 July 2009 at 4:32 pm » Comments (11)

Today, I tried to investigate a DWG file that one of my users couldn't open. It wouldn't open for me on an old 1 GB PC. Trying a PC with ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Putting things back to “normal”

16 June 2009 at 12:44 pm » Comments (38)

Easily the most popular post on this blog, in terms of both hits and comments, is AutoCAD 2009 - Putting things back to "normal". Lots of people seemed to find ...more »

The 12-month cycle and shipping software with known bugs

15 June 2009 at 1:49 pm » Comments (9)

In a recent blog post, Deelip Menezes appears to be shocked by the very idea that a particular CAD company (no, not Autodesk) would ship software that contains known bugs. ...more »

AutoCAD for Linux – another bad idea

10 June 2009 at 2:08 pm » Comments (14)

I often see calls for Autodesk to support AutoCAD on Linux. Just like AutoCAD for the Mac, while I can sympathise with the users of that OS, I think a ...more »

AutoCAD for Mac review in Cadalyst (circa 1989)

3 June 2009 at 1:00 pm » Comments (3)

A comment from Kal on Between the Lines mentions an AutoCAD Release 10.5 for Mac. My memory of ancient and useless AutoCAD trivia is usually pretty good, but this time ...more »

Why AutoCAD for Mac is a bad idea

29 May 2009 at 6:46 pm » Comments (45)

There has been a fair bit of open discussion from Autodesk lately on the subject of a possible future OS X AutoCAD version. The more I think about this, the ...more »
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