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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 »

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 »

Programmers, have your say

11 May 2010 at 4:57 pm » Comments (2)

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 ...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 »

CAD International interview on drcauto and other subjects

1 February 2010 at 11:33 pm » Comments (1)

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 ...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 »

Ask Autodesk a question

30 January 2009 at 10:19 am » Comments (20)

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 ...more »

Happy Birthday, LISP

20 October 2008 at 11:59 pm » Comments (0)

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 ...more »

Autodesk discussion group alternatives

25 September 2008 at 10:28 am » Comments (3)

As I'm typing this, the Autodesk discussion groups are down for maintenance again. Let's hope that when they come back up, some of the problems are fixed. In the meantime, if ...more »

What is loaded at AutoCAD startup, and when?

1 September 2008 at 2:03 pm » Comments (16)

Warning, CAD nerd stuff ahead. This is a long and technical post and if you're using AutoCAD in a largely out-of-the-box state you probably won't care about any of it. If ...more »

Where have all the developers gone?

29 April 2008 at 4:11 pm » Comments (4)

I noticed in Ralph Grabowski's latest upFront.eZine that Autodesk has announced that 100 developers have 200 add-ons working with its 2009 series of software. I hope I'm not supposed to ...more »

Do you do any AutoCAD development?

23 April 2008 at 4:20 pm » Comments (0)

Yes, that includes hacking about (or producing beautifully elegant code) in LISP. If so, you may wish to go here and fill in the appropriate API survey, which is probably the ...more »