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AutoCAD WS Contest

6 September 2010 at 9:35 pm » Comments (21)

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 ...more »

Autodesk’s Callan Carpenter responds to Subscription follow-up

29 July 2010 at 10:32 pm » Comments (5)

You may remember a month ago I raised the question What proportion of Autodesk customers really are on Subscription? Shortly after that, I sent Autodesk Subscription VP Callan Carpenter these ...more »

This spam amuses me

28 July 2010 at 11:08 am » Comments (2)

Any Internet resource that allows public comment has to deal with spam. Fortunately, Akismet takes care of the vast majority of the spam on this blog so I don't have ...more »

Censorship on the Autodesk discussion groups

28 June 2010 at 1:24 pm » Comments (6)

The Autodesk discussion groups have quite a few problems at the moment, which I will discuss at length in future. One unnecessary problem that has been added to the mix ...more »

Autodesk discussion group update – what do you think?

11 June 2010 at 12:00 pm » Comments (10)

On 4 June 2010, Autodesk turned off NNTP access to its discussion groups as part of the process of updating its software to use a different engine (the new one ...more »

Had any problems with this site lately?

7 May 2010 at 11:18 am » Comments (3)

A couple of days ago, my web hosting server was down. This is pretty unusual with the hosting company I use, but these things can happen to the best from ...more »

Autodesk provides CHM-based Help for AutoCAD 2011

28 April 2010 at 2:27 pm » Comments (7)

In a comment in response to my AutoCAD 2011 Help system is not popular post, Autodesk's Diane Serda acknowledged the problems, offered apologies and posted a link to a CHM ...more »

AutoCAD 2011 Help system is not popular

23 April 2010 at 3:48 pm » Comments (9)

My poll on this subject is still running (see right), but so far about 2/3 of respondents rate AutoCAD 2011's new browser-based Help system as 0, 1 or 2 stars ...more »

What would you ask Autodesk about Subscription and upgrades?

14 April 2010 at 1:51 pm » Comments (4)

My post on Autodesk's new upgrade pricing regime attracted a fair amount of comment, much of it critical of Autodesk. So, let's follow this up. Let's say, just hypothetically, that you ...more »

AutoCAD 2011′s new Help system – what do you think?

28 March 2010 at 9:20 am » Comments (12)

With all this talk of clouds in the air, it is interesting to note that Autodesk has moved AutoCAD's Help system to a browser-based format, with online access as the ...more »

Pin the name on the product and win a prize!

18 March 2010 at 10:04 pm » Comments (17)

This post is announcing a real competition with a real prize (well, nearly real). The prize will be the album uniVers by my favourite Australian band, Voyager. This will be ...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 »

Can you work without a command line?

26 February 2010 at 5:34 pm » Comments (15)

On the Project Butterfly blog, a recent poll gave these choices: I can’t work without the command line I think it’s time for a new way to draw without the command line In ...more »

Autodesk Subscription support – how is it?

23 February 2010 at 10:36 am » Comments (4)

I'd like to hear your experiences with the support that is part of the Autodesk Subscription package. My own experiences have been mixed, but I'd like to hear from you ...more »

Comment censorship

15 February 2010 at 10:25 pm » Comments (10)

I want your views on how much control I should exert over the comments that people make here. I've been led to thinking about this by a couple of things. ...more »

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

8 February 2010 at 10:40 pm » Comments (34)

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 »

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 »

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 »

AUGI Special Election – Candidates

24 June 2009 at 2:54 pm » Comments (10)

There are four candidates for two positions on the AUGI Board of Directors. The voting page is now open, although it will not go active until voting commences on 29 ...more »

Blogging = arrogance?

18 February 2009 at 10:22 pm » Comments (16)

Here's a quote from somebody I know: Blogging is an inherently arrogant concept. It implies that your opinion is worth more than that of other people. At the risk of offending all ...more »