It’s probably worth pointing out that if you you have no problem emailing your designs around the place without some form of protection or encryption, there’s little point in getting all worked up about Cloud security. Email isn’t remotely secure. FTP isn’t exactly watertight, either. If you’re still interested in Cloud security issues, this [...]
 18 November 2011, 12:02 pm |  4 comments | Tags: 123D, Amazon, Cloud, Security, Terms and Conditions | Category: Autodesk, Cloud, Legal, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Thoughts, Web Stuff As I’ve already discussed, one of the areas where CAD on the Cloud shows potential is in handling specific tasks that require performing intensive calculations that are suitable for sharing among many processors. That sounds great in theory, and a lot of Cloud marketing (e.g. Virtually Infinite Computing) emphasises that point. OK, that sounds [...] 16 November 2011, 12:38 pm | 2 comments | Tags: Alex Bausk, Carl Bass, Cloud, Feedback, Hype, Labs, Project Storm | Category: Autodesk, Cloud, Fail, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Performance, Review, Spin, Web Stuff Steve: Another issue I have with Cloud-based environments is the lack of customisation. One of the things that makes AutoCAD so efficient for people is that they can get it exactly the way they want it. With a browser-based environment, we’re pretty much stuck with what you guys decide to give us. Can you [...] 11 November 2011, 10:08 am |  Leave a comment | Tags: Autodesk, Cloud, Interview, Labs | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD WS, Autodesk, Cloud, Interview, Other Autodesk Products, Web Stuff Steve: Autodesk is currently giving away these Cloud-based services, Butterfly for example. Presumably you’re not going to keep doing that for ever. Are you going to start charging for these services eventually? Guri: Again, you’re pushing us to talk about future. Currently, for as long as this is in a Labs environment, we’re encouraging [...] 8 November 2011, 1:05 pm | 2 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Cloud, Interview, Labs | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD WS, Autodesk, Cloud, Interview, Other Autodesk Products, Web Stuff On 26 May 2010, I had the opportunity to ask Autodesk some questions about the Cloud in general and what was then Project Butterfly (now AutoCAD WS) in particular. The Autodesk people were: Guri Stark,Vice President, AutoCAD & Platform Products Tal Weiss, R&D Center Manager (Israel) Noah Cole, Corporate Media Relations The interview was [...] 4 November 2011, 10:12 am | Leave a comment | Tags: Autodesk, Cloud, Interview, Labs | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD WS, Autodesk, Cloud, Interview, Other Autodesk Products, Web Stuff As reported by multiple on-line news outlets, Autodesk just announced that it is increasing its research and development budget (having slashed it last year), and increasing the percentage of that budget on the Cloud. Carl Bass: When there are technology transitions in place, you better be more mindful of that, or you become roadkill. [...] 2 November 2011, 10:17 am | 7 comments | Tags: Budget, Cloud, Development, Financial, Research | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Other Sites, Web Stuff I just used Autodesk Cloud Documents for the first time, and was asked to confirm my acceptance of the Terms of Service. Fair enough. But just what is in those terms, and what do they mean to you if you are dubious about using the Cloud? Will you be reassured by what you find [...] 14 October 2011, 9:57 pm | 21 comments | Tags: Cloud, Terms and Conditions | Category: Autodesk, Cloud, Legal, Other Autodesk Products Autodesk recently made a big announcement about its Cloud initiatives, and reactions have been all over the place. Some people can barely contain their breathless excitement while others are outraged to the point of passing out the pitchforks. Why? It’s pretty much business as usual. It’s nothing like Dassault’s disastrous we’re-moving-you-to-the-Cloud FUD campaign against [...] 30 September 2011, 1:00 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, AutoCAD WS, Autodesk, Cloud, Hype, Labs | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Spin, Subscription, Thoughts, Web Stuff One of the more painful aspects of dealing with installations of recent releases of AutoCAD and related products is that although you might run a single setup routine to install what you think is a single application, the end result is a mass of different components being installed. Each of these components is considered a [...] 1 June 2011, 12:27 pm | One comment | Tags: Installation | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD 2012, Autodesk, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Rant If you download AutoCAD or other Autodesk products from either the trial or Subscription sites, the executable you get (e.g. AutoCAD_2012_English_Win_32bit.exe) is actually a self-extracting archive rather than a real installer. When you run it, you are prompted for a destination folder, with a default location such as this: C:\Autodesk\AutoCAD_2012_English_Win_32bit The actual installer (setup.exe) and [...] 13 May 2011, 12:01 pm | 5 comments | Tags: Bloat, Installation, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, Other Autodesk Products, Performance, Tip 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 The most popular post on this blog, in terms of both hits and comments, is AutoCAD 2009 – Putting things back to “normal”. This is followed by AutoCAD 2010 – Putting things back to “normal”, with AutoCAD 2011 – Putting things back to “normal” not too far behind. As it seems many people find [...] 14 April 2011, 9:28 pm | 94 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2012, Tip, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, ClassicArray, Nostalgia, Other Autodesk Products, Performance, Tip Congratulations to Ralph Grabowski, winner of my AutoCAD WS contest. His entry of Workspace was chosen by the greatest number of voters as the hidden meaning behind the WS in AutoCAD WS. Ralph, your prize awaits! Just visit the App Store and you’ll soon be running a real live AutoCAD on your iPod [...] 18 October 2010, 9:59 am | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD WS | Category: Apple, Cloud, Fun, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Polls, Win The term “stability” is sometimes used as a euphemism to refer to how many bugs a program has. I don’t use the word in that way. To me, stability is a measure of a program’s basic ability to keep functioning without crashing or corrupting data. A program can have a thousand tiny irritating bugs [...] 24 September 2010, 10:57 am | 36 comments | Tags: Crash, Data corruption, Stability | Category: AutoCAD, Bug, Comments, Other Autodesk Products Good news! Autodesk has announced an app that will link iPads and iPhones to Project Butterfly. This provides viewing, markup and limited editing facilities. Bad news! Autodesk has decide to call it AutoCAD WS, which is bordering on the fraudulent. It’s not AutoCAD, is nothing like it, and is unlikely to ever be anything like [...] 3 September 2010, 5:28 pm | 2 comments | Tags: Flash, He's going to save every one of us, Lulz, WTF? | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Cloud, Fail, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Spin, Web Stuff When is AutoCAD nor AutoCAD? When it’s AutoCAD WS. But it’s not quite that simple. I’ve been correcting people for months when they say things like “Project Butterfly is AutoCAD on the Cloud.” No, it’s not. It’s a DWG editor of sorts, but anybody who has used both will know that it’s not AutoCAD [...] 1 September 2010, 5:04 pm | 5 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD WS, Cloud, Confusion, Inventor, Marketing, Project Butterfly, Revit, Verticals | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design, TrueView 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 variant from 2007 on; Autodesk’s fix is currently restricted to Civil 3D 2009, 2010 and 2011. As this problem is definitely not confined [...] 26 July 2010, 10:59 am | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2011, Language Pack | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Bug, Civil 3D, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Review, Tip 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 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 a set of patches for Civil 3D 2009, 2010 and 2011 that allow Civil 3D users to remove the spurious language pack flag by [...] 22 July 2010, 9:59 am | One comment | Tags: Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2011, Hotfix, Language Pack, Virus | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Bug, Customer Service, Other Autodesk Products, Win |
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3DConnexion device support in AutoCAD
Do you have a 3DConnexion device (3D ‘mouse’) and use it in AutoCAD or AutoCAD-based products? What do you think of the way it works in the most recent releases of AutoCAD?
From AutoCAD 2011 on, Autodesk provided built-in support for these devices. Has that made things better or worse than in earlier releases? [...]