…the Ribbon, according to your selections in the What are the worst features ever added to AutoCAD? poll. As in the best ever poll, the winner (loser?) in this race had no serious competition. I’ve listed eleven top (bottom?) features here rather than ten, partly because the popular (unpopular?) choice Memory Overuse isn’t exactly a [...]
 9 November 2011, 12:45 pm |  13 comments | Tags: Action Recorder, Help, Ribbon, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Cloud, Development, Fail, Nostalgia, Polls, Rant A few days ago, John McCarthy died at the age of 84. He didn’t make a fortune selling gadgets, he just profoundly affected the world of computing. He will be remembered mainly as the father of LISP, without which it is quite possible that AutoCAD and Autodesk would not have survived beyond the 80s. [...] 27 October 2011, 9:37 am |  One comment | Tags: John McCarthy, Vale | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Cloud, Development, LISP, Nostalgia, Thoughts, Web Stuff, Win Thanks to Kean Walmsley’s post on his Through the Interface blog, I have learned something that would have been handy to know for the last decade or so, but which somehow escaped my knowledge. I learned how to increase the size of AutoCAD’s command line history cache. It defaults to 400 lines, which isn’t [...] 13 September 2011, 11:16 am | 5 comments | Tags: Command line, Kean Walmsley, QAFLAGS, Scrolling, Text window | Category: AutoCAD, Customisation, Development, Other Blogs, Tip I have been somewhat neglectful of this blog lately, including a failure to mention that my ClassicArray™ plug-in for AutoCAD 2012 has been shipping since 1 May 2011. Thank you to those people from various places around the world who have been prepared to go to the effort of registering and paying for the [...] 5 August 2011, 3:37 pm | 5 comments | Tags: Array, AutoCAD 2012, ClassicArray, Dialog, Dialogue | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD 2012, ClassicArray, Customisation, DCL, Development One of the less obvious features introduced by AutoCAD 2012 is the Autoloader mechanism that has been provided to make installation of plug-ins (current standard Autodeskspeak for add-ons, apps, utilities, routines, etc.) easier for both developers and users. It may not be immediately obvious, but it’s a useful and important addition. This mechanism has [...] 20 April 2011, 5:29 pm | 9 comments | Tags: Autoloader, Plug-in, Startup | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, ClassicArray, Customisation, Development, Interoperability, LISP, Other Autodesk Products, Win I have now posted the second Release Candidate of ClassicArray™ (version number 0.7.0). The main changes from the first Release Candidate (0.6.0) are: Help documentation, which you can also view here, now describes how to resolve an AutoCAD CUIx loading problem. (The problem is not specific to ClassicArray and can affect any CUIx file [...] 14 April 2011, 1:11 pm | Comments are closed | Tags: Beta software, ClassicArray | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, ClassicArray, Development I have just posted the Release Candidate of ClassicArray™ (version number 0.6.0). The main changes from Beta 2 (0.5.0) are: Setup executables have been provided to provide easier installation and uninstallation. Pretty comprehensive Help documentation is now in place, which you can also view here if you want to learn about the product without [...] 9 April 2011, 11:23 am | Comments are closed | Tags: Beta software, Bloat, ClassicArray, Download, Irony, Release Candidate | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, ClassicArray, Development, Fun I have just posted the second public Beta of ClassicArray™ (version number 0.5.0). There are some documentation updates (still no Help, though), and the main changes are: Bugs fixed with rectangular arrays where single-row and/or column arrays confused AutoCAD. The command now remembers its settings from one invocation to the next, within a single [...] 28 March 2011, 10:30 pm | Comments are closed | Tags: Beta software, ClassicArray | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD 2012, Bug, ClassicArray, Development People have already started to notice that AutoCAD 2012 has killed the dialog box interface for the Array command, and not everybody is happy about it. So I guess it’s time to launch ClassicArray™ Beta. ClassicArray is an add-on for AutoCAD 2012 for Windows that allows the creation of arrays using a dialog box interface similar [...] 25 March 2011, 12:26 pm | 25 comments | Tags: Array, Beta software, ClassicArray, Dialog, Dialogue, User Interface | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, Bug, ClassicArray, Development You may remember my pre-release speculation about what was likely to be missing from the Mac version of AutoCAD 2011. It turns out that my list was pretty accurate as far as it went, but very incomplete. In a move that I can only applaud, Autodesk has now published its own list of missing [...] 17 October 2010, 9:57 am | 19 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Customisation, DCL, Development, Fail 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 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 not yet tested Owen’s utility*, but as this should run in any AutoCAD-based product from 2007 on, it could well be a better partial [...] 22 July 2010, 1:43 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Free Stuff, ManuSoft, Owen Wengerd | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Bug, Development, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Win 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 drawing requires an Asian language pack to be installed. It also warns that this is a symptom of the acad.vlx virus: Now I [...] 19 July 2010, 4:06 pm | 6 comments | Tags: Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2011, Language Pack, Virus | Category: Bug, Customer Service, Customisation, Development, Fail, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products Autodesk wants your input in its annual API survey. What used to be a closed survey for Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) members has been open to all for the last couple of years, and if you do any Autodesk-based development at all I encourage you to take part. Yes, that includes those of us [...] 11 May 2010, 4:57 pm | 2 comments | Tags: API, Autodesk, AutoLISP, Feedback, LISP, Survey | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Customisation, Development, LISP, Other Blogs 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 zip file of CHM files available for download. That’s much better than ignoring people’s concerns, denying the validity of those concerns or shooting the messenger, [...] 7 May 2010, 1:18 pm | 6 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, CHM, Civil 3D, Download, Express Tools, Help, Subscription, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Bug, Cloud, Customer Service, Customisation, Development, Other Autodesk Products, Subscription, Tip, Web Stuff This morning I spoke with CAD International‘s Nigel Varley. Here is a paraphrased summary of the interview. SJ: When did CAD International buy the drcauto intellectual property rights? NV: About two weeks ago. SJ: You are currently helping drcauto customers with authorisation codes, is that correct? NV: Yes, masses of them. It’s taking up [...] 1 February 2010, 11:33 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD LT, CAD International, Deelip Menezes, drcauto, LISP, LT Toolkit, Other Blogs | Category: AutoCAD LT, Autodesk, Development, Interoperability, Interview, Legal, LISP, Other Blogs, Other Products, TrueView 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 D’Arcy made sure everything was done legally so it couldn’t be stopped even by Autodesk’s hyperactive legal team. If you are a user of [...] 15 January 2010, 12:20 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD LT, drcauto, Evan Yares, LISP, LT Toolkit, Other Blogs | Category: AutoCAD, Customer Service, Development, LISP, Other Blogs, Tip If you had a real live Autodesk development person standing in front of you right now (an AutoCAD Product Manager, for example) and were allowed to ask one question, what would it be? Please add a comment here with your question. I would ask that you keep your question civil and reasonably concise (one [...] Here in Australia it is well into the 21st and I raised my own glass last night, but for John McCarthy and most of my readers, it is the 20th of October right now. So this is the appropriate time to say Happy Birthday to LISP. Here’s to another 50 years of simple, compact, [...] 20 October 2008, 11:59 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoLISP, CAD History | Category: AutoCAD, Development, LISP |
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ClassicArray pricing proposal
I am considering the following pricing model for ClassicArray™ when it’s released:
Individual licenses: $12 Up to 20-user license: $100 Up to 50-user license: $200 Up to 100-user license: $300 Unlimited site license: $500
Prices in US$, payment by PayPal, delivery by download only. Australian purchasers would have to pay 10% GST on top [...]