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AutoCAD 2011 Update 1.1

8 September 2010 at 12:49 pm » Comments (0)

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 ...more »

Missing language pack fixes compared

26 July 2010 at 10:59 am » Comments (2)

Having tried out the cleanup fixes from both Autodesk and Owen Wengerd, they both appear to work fine. Here are some points of comparison: Owen's utility will work with any AutoCAD ...more »

Another language pack cleanup solution

22 July 2010 at 1:43 pm » Comments (0)

My CADLock, Inc. colleague, Owen Wengerd has posted about a fix utility he has written to help clean up drawings infested with the language pack problem discussed here. I have ...more »

Partial fix for language pack problem

22 July 2010 at 9:59 am » Comments (1)

The Civil 3D group within Autodesk has moved impressively quickly in providing a partial solution to the language pack problem I described earlier. What has been provided so far is ...more »

Civil 3D 2011 ANZ comes complete with “virus”

19 July 2010 at 4:06 pm » Comments (6)

If you install Civil 3D 2011 using the ANZ (Australia/New Zealand) profile, when you start it up for the first time, you will see a large warning indicating that the ...more »

Filling the holes in Autodesk’s CHM Help stopgap

7 May 2010 at 1:18 pm » Comments (3)

It was good to see Autodesk react to criticism of AutoCAD 2011's browser-based Help with an acknowledgement of the problems and an attempt to provide a workaround by making a ...more »

Autodesk shows Dassault how to treat customers

30 April 2010 at 2:03 pm » Comments (6)

There are areas of Autodesk's treatment of customers that leaves much to be desired, and I will most likely continue to be critical of that until a) I die; b) ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 & 2010 users – out of memory errors?

10 March 2010 at 1:06 pm » Comments (11)

Some of the users I support have repeated out-of-memory errors while editing fairly simple drawings. I have some 2010 users who suffer from this problem while others using the same ...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 »

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 »

Hotfix available for Raster Design licensing issue

23 June 2009 at 12:09 pm » Comments (0)

Thanks to Brian and Rick for pointing out the availability of a hotfix for Raster Design 2010's standalone/network license incompatibility. As a bonus, it also fixes some Raster Design / ...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’s magic vanishing attachments

30 April 2009 at 10:36 pm » Comments (1)

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 ...more »

Bug watch – mystery insect identified

9 March 2009 at 8:00 am » Comments (1)

It appears that the mystery bug was in fact a mole cricket. It appears that these things are poorly understood and I should have passed it on to our local ...more »

Bug watch – identify this insect

7 March 2009 at 1:34 pm » Comments (13)

No, not the Bug Watch, just a bug you can watch. Does anybody know what this insect is? It is the second one of these we've found in our home ...more »

Older AutoCAD loses (part of) the plot

23 February 2009 at 11:58 am » Comments (22)

I know there are plenty of people still using AutoCAD 2007 and earlier, so this bug warning may save some of you some grief. I have no idea how widespread ...more »

What a crock!

17 November 2008 at 9:57 pm » Comments (8)

Just when I thought it wasn't possible for my Autodesk discussion group experience to get any worse, it has. Much worse. I stated before that in the 15 November update, some ...more »

Autodesk discussion group maintenance failure

17 November 2008 at 12:51 pm » Comments (9)

I must admit that I wasn't really expecting the November 15 Autodesk discussion group maintenance effort to come up with the goods and make everything all better again. However, it ...more »

Autodesk discussion group maintenance this weekend

14 November 2008 at 2:34 pm » Comments (0)

According to a notice on the Autodesk discussion groups, they will be down for maintenance for a while this wekend. The scheduled downtime period (in terms of GMT/UTC) is 7 ...more »