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AutoCAD 2011 for Mac announced

31 August 2010 at 11:07 am » Comments (2)

According to Macworld, Autodesk has now made its worst-kept secret, AutoCAD for Mac OS X, official. There are also goodies for those with cute little rectangles: Autodesk also announced that the ...more »

Why we keep upgrading

27 August 2010 at 12:42 pm » Comments (1)

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 ...more »

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 »

Autodesk to kill NNTP discussion groups

27 May 2010 at 12:39 pm » Comments (9)

As of 4 June, Autodesk intends to update its discussion group software to something that does not support newsgroup (NNTP) access. From an email by Autodesk's Eric Wright to NNTP ...more »

AutoCAD for Mac in Beta

24 May 2010 at 12:25 pm » Comments (4)

Disclaimer: I have absolutely no access to inside information about this Beta. Even if I had, I would not reveal anything that I had learned as a result of such ...more »

Autodesk Knowledge Base – who thought this was a good idea?

14 April 2010 at 10:35 pm » Comments (7)

This evening, I needed to know exactly which operating systems were supported by all AutoCAD releases from 2004 to 2011 inclusive. I have a pretty good idea, but I needed ...more »

Incoming link: “Important Revit information”

6 April 2010 at 10:08 am » Comments (4)

One of the things my blog's Wordpress dashboard shows me is a list of incoming links, i.e. who is pointing to this blog. One line intrigued me: unknown linked here saying, ...more »

Siemens 0, Autodesk (April) 1

2 April 2010 at 12:57 pm » Comments (3)

Personally, I find most April fool jokes to be pretty lame. I considered doing one myself, and had what I thought was a pretty convincing idea, but finally decided against ...more »

Carl Bass on TV

9 March 2010 at 2:08 pm » Comments (3)

Autodesk big cheese Carl Bass gets a friendly interview on NBC's Press:Here (amusing name, "press colon here"). It's kind of funny seeing CAD described by non-CAD people (the presenters, not ...more »

More on drcauto, LT Toolkit and CAD International

1 February 2010 at 4:51 pm » Comments (0)

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 ...more »

AUGI Salary Survey – last few days

26 June 2009 at 4:13 pm » Comments (1)

The annual AUGI Salary Survey (ably run by friend and fellow geek/blogger Melanie Perry) is open for your responses until 30 June,  so if you're planning to fill it in, please ...more »

AUGI | AEC EDGE magazine published

24 June 2009 at 8:25 pm » Comments (1)

More AUGI news, but good news this time. The first edition of the on-line magazine AUGI | AEC EDGE has been published by Extension Media. It is available in high- ...more »

AUGI Special Election – Candidates

24 June 2009 at 2:54 pm » Comments (10)

There are four candidates for two positions on the AUGI Board of Directors. The voting page is now open, although it will not go active until voting commences on 29 ...more »

Some thoughts on AutoCAD Exchange

25 March 2009 at 8:20 pm » Comments (1)

I've added a link to Autodesk's new AutoCAD community site, AutoCAD Exchange. As with most things Autodesk, there are pros and cons. Here are my first impressions. I think it looks ...more »

Bartz the blogger

27 February 2009 at 1:17 pm » Comments (1)

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 ...more »

Cadalyst lives!

26 February 2009 at 9:14 am » Comments (0)

I was happy to receive an email from Nancy Johnson this morning informing me that Cadalyst is going to continue. From March onward it will be published by Longitude Media, ...more »

Interesting times ahead for Cadalyst

17 February 2009 at 9:30 am » Comments (6)

As many of you may know, I've been writing for Cadalyst since 1995. Yesterday, I read in David Cohn's summary of the history of Cadalyst that in 1991, Lionel Johnston ...more »

Typo of the week

20 January 2009 at 10:08 pm » Comments (0)

Thanks, Ralph, for this little gem of a typo in the latest upFront.eZine: IntegrityWare announces tits new Extreme Performance Library more »

Revolutionary new Apple laptop

6 January 2009 at 9:53 pm » Comments (3)

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 ...more »

Cadalyst goes bi-monthly

14 December 2008 at 11:31 am » Comments (1)

As you may be aware, I'm a Contributing Editor (i.e. writer) for Cadalyst magazine and have been writing the Bug Watch column since 1995.  Back when Cadalyst was thicker, Bug ...more »