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The observant among you may have noticed that for many years, Autodesk’s free patches, service packs and updates haven’t added any new functionality. Bugs may get fixed, severe performance issues may be addressed, but design errors generally have to wait for the next release (at the earliest), and new features definitely don’t get added. The [...]  12 September 2011, 1:06 pm |  5 comments | Tags: Accounting, Autodesk, FASB, SEC, Service Pack, SOP 97-2, Update, VSOE | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, Autodesk, Autodesk University, ClassicArray, Customer Service, Navel Gazing, Nostalgia, Other Products, Thoughts I would be very interested to hear from any of you who have adopted Bricscad (either partially or fully replacing AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT in your organisation), or at least seriously investigated using the product. This post is aimed at users and CAD managers rather than third party developers, who I expect to cover [...] 19 July 2010, 10:57 am | 16 comments | Tags: Bricscad | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Other Products I’m still looking for your questions about Autodesk Subscription and upgrade policies and pricing. No matter what you think about that, you have to admit that Autodesk’s current policies are less anti-customer than those inflicted on SolidWorks users. Disallowing bug fixes for non-subscription customers is reprehensible, no matter what kind of spin is put [...] 18 April 2010, 9:26 pm | 12 comments | Tags: Customer Service, SolidWorks, Spin, Subscription | Category: Autodesk, Customer Service, Fail, Other Blogs, Other Products, Spin, Subscription 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 Things have moved on since my first post on this subject in which I passed on the information that Leonard Liang (a former drcauto employee) could help with codes for LT Toolkit orphans. In recent developments In a comment in a WorldCAD Access post, Nigel Varley from Australian company CAD International stated that they [...] 1 February 2010, 4:51 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD LT, CAD International, Deelip Menezes, drcauto, LISP, LT Toolkit, Other Blogs | Category: Autodesk, LISP, Other Blogs, Other Products, Other Sites For those of us who have been following Autodesk for decades, it’s a familiar story. Autodesk buys a company or its technology, makes an Autodesk product out of it, and initially promotes it as the best thing since sliced bread. Autodesk subsequently ignores it to death, before finally killing it off and leaving customers [...] 16 January 2010, 1:54 pm | One comment | Tags: Autodesk, Customer Service, FM Desktop, Orphans | Category: Autodesk, Customer Service, Other Autodesk Products, Other Products For the next few hours, you can get a free registered version of the screen capture software Snagit from TechSmith. It’s a couple of versions old and not supported on Vista, but nevertheless is well worthwhile. No, the Print Scrn key isn’t the same thing at all; Snagit is much, much more useful than [...] 5 June 2009, 2:32 pm | One comment | Tags: Free Stuff, Freebies, Other Products, Snagit, TechSmith | Category: AU2006, Autodesk University, Other Products, Tip Autodesk’s Executive Chairman of the Board (who has one or two other little jobs, too) has made a Yahoo! blog post in which she promises to kick a donkey, or something. Yahoo! if of only tangential interest to me; I don’t particularly care if it thrives or if it dies. However, it’s good to [...] 27 February 2009, 1:17 pm | One comment | Tags: Carol Bartz, Other Blogs, Yahoo! | Category: Autodesk, Customer Service, Other Blogs, Other Products, Other Sites, Web Stuff Come on Autodesk, why isn’t AutoCAD already running on this little beauty? Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard I’m not usually a huge fan of The Onion, but I certainly found this one LOLworthy. 6 January 2009, 9:53 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Apple, Fun, The Onion, Video | Category: Fun, Other Products, Other Sites, Video The IMSI free CAD product that it is putting up against AutoCAD LT has a very interesting name: A/CAD LT*. Does A/CAD sound familiar to anyone? I vaguely seem to remember some other CAD product with a very similar name. Hmm, let me think, it has a main program file called acad.exe and many [...] 24 November 2008, 6:12 pm | One comment | Tags: Autodesk, IMSI, Legal, Marketing | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Other Products A while back, I received an email from IMSI, makers of TurboCAD. The information I gained from that email is now public knowledge thanks to an advertisement in AUGI World and other exposure, so I guess I can let you all in on it. Here it is: Everyone knows AutoCAD is a fixture in [...] 24 November 2008, 2:58 pm | 5 comments | Tags: AU2008, Autodesk, Autodesk University, IMSI, Marketing | Category: Advertising, AU2008, Autodesk, Autodesk University, Bentley, Other Blogs, Other Products Last year, I bought a Canon MP830 printer/scanner/copier/fax/tea maker/whatever for my home office. I chose this particular device because it had all the features I was after, including CD printing, duplex printing, printing to the edge of the sheet, decent photo printing quality, and great document handling including automatic dual-sided copying. It also had [...] 21 October 2008, 1:10 pm | 7 comments | Tags: Canon, Customer Service, Design, Hewlett-Packard, Printer, Reliablity, Review | Category: Bug, Customer Service, Hardware, Other Products, Rant, Review, Tip If you have Communications Center disabled (this is quite common, it seems) or you’re not currently using your 2009-based vertical product, you may be unaware that Autodesk has released versions of Update 1 (formerly known as SP1) for the architectural and civil variants of AutoCAD 2009. Expect the other verticals to follow soon. A visit [...] 13 August 2008, 1:38 pm | 4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Update, Verticals | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Other Products, Tip Autodesk has announced two “new” products, Stitcher Unlimited 2009 and ImageModeler 2009. Stitcher Unlimited (US$350, Windows and Mac) is for patching photographs to generate panoramic images that can be used in rendering and other virtual-world applications. ImageModeler ($US995, Windows only) generates 3D models from 2D images. Both products are carry-overs from Autodesk’s purchase of [...] 12 August 2008, 11:11 am | One comment | Tags: Autodesk, ImageModeler, REALVIZ, Stitcher | Category: Autodesk, Other Products |
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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? [...]