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 In all of the Cad on the Cloud discussion so far, both here and elsewhere, there have been a lot of anti-Cloud comments and very little in the way of response from the pro-Cloud crowd. Participation in the debate from Autodesk people has been minimal. In one way I can understand that, because given [...] 10 November 2011, 10:15 am | 4 comments | Category: Autodesk, Cloud, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Thoughts, Web Stuff I guess most of this blog’s readers also read WorldCAD Access and upFront.eZine, so it probably hasn’t escaped your notice that in the latest upFront.eZine, Ralph had procalimed “The Cloud is Dead” and referred to some of my recent posts here as supporting evidence. I’d just like to point out that it’s Ralph announcing [...] 26 October 2011, 1:57 pm | 2 comments | Tags: Cloud, Prophecy | Category: Cloud, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Thoughts, Web Stuff 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 Lynn Allen produces a handy tips booklet for each new release of AutoCAD, giving an easy-to-read summary of the main new features. She has made the AutoCAD 2012 online version available on her blog here. 13 May 2011, 4:04 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Lynn Allen | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, Autodesk, Other Blogs, Tip As reported on Without a Net, there is a second update for AutoCAD 2011 for Mac. This will be welcome news to those of you who have discovered that AutoCAD crashes when using Copy/Paste after installing the 10.6.7 OS X update. If you haven’t applied Update 1 yet, you will need to do that [...] 1 April 2011, 10:50 am |  One comment | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Copy, Crash, Paste, Update | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Bug, Other Blogs 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 As I have stated before, I believe Autodesk to be in the right (morally, not legally) in its battle to prevent Vernor’s resale of old, upgraded copies of Release 14. In the latest installment, Autodesk has won its appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. There will be be further legal moves yet, [...] 15 September 2010, 5:16 pm | 13 comments | Tags: EULA, Licensing, Vernor | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Fail, Legal, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Rant 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 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 AutoCAD and LT. There is no news yet about Updates for vertical AutoCAD variants. If you have installed Update 1 and the hotfix, you [...] 8 September 2010, 12:49 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Update | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD 2011, Bug, Other Blogs, Tip In a post on WorldCAD Access, Jay Vleeschhouwer makes some reasonable observations. However, the timing of the 1990s Autodesk / Mac history looks all wrong to me. Jay quotes himself from a 2008 note: …until about the mid-1990s Autodesk did have a reasonable presence on the Mac … commitment waned when Apple’s fortunes faded [...] 6 September 2010, 1:02 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Jay Vleeschhouwer, WorldCAD Access | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Nostalgia, Other Blogs In a comment in response to a Deelip post yesterday, Brad Holtz pointed to an article he wrote in 1999. It’s interesting to note that while much of the computing world today bears little resemblance to the scene at the end of the last century, this article remains almost completely accurate and relevant. Indeed, [...] 27 August 2010, 12:42 pm | One comment | Tags: 12-Month Release Cycle, Autodesk, Brad Holtz | Category: Autodesk, Nostalgia, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Thoughts, Writing Autodesk is running a web survey to try to find out which user communities (including blogs) its customers find valuable. If you are interested in participating, the survey is here. If you want to specify any blogs, you will need to type or paste their names into various “other comments” boxes. As the number [...] 23 August 2010, 2:56 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Polls, Survey | Category: Announcement, Autodesk, Other Blogs, Web Stuff Heidi Hewett just reported the following on her blog, about a productivity study: According to a recent independent study, AutoCAD® 2011 can help you work up to 44% faster with the latest productivity enhancements. I have a couple of problems with that sentence. First, it’s not an independent study. It’s a study conducted by [...] 4 August 2010, 4:04 pm | 8 comments | Tags: David Cohn, Heidi Hewett, Performance, Productivity, Spin | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Fail, Other Blogs, Rant, Spin, Thoughts 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 Over at Edwin Prakaso’s CAD Notes site, he has collected 100 AutoCAD tips and published them in a highly useful post. Very nice job, Edo. While you blog readers are collecting tips, you might as well have a look at mine, too: http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/tag/tip/ (and page 2) I was surprised how many tips I have posted [...] 2 July 2010, 3:49 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, Edwin Prakaso, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, Other Blogs, Tip In my recent interview of Autodesk Subscription VP Callan Carpenter, he made these statements: …there is a very small fraction of our revenue that comes from upgrades at this point in time. We’re down to very low single digits of customers who upgrade, and of those only half of those upgrade 1 or 2 [...] 28 May 2010, 12:55 pm | 6 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Callan Carpenter, Deelip Menezes, Owen Wengerd, Ralph Grabowski, Statistics, Subscription | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Interview, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Polls, Spin, Subscription |
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