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This site has gone dark for a day to support the movement against the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills. Rather than black out the whole site for a day like Wikipedia and thousands of other sites, I have decided to keep the blog somewhat usable. SOPA is really, really scary stuff. If you’re an [...]  18 January 2012, 1:40 pm |  2 comments | Tags: Evil, PIPA, SOPA | Category: Announcement, Other Sites, 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 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 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 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 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 new Mac version of AutoCAD would be accompanied by the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone, and the iPod [...] 31 August 2010, 11:07 am | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac | Category: Announcement, Apple, AutoCAD 2011, Other Sites 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 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 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 users: “As an active NNTP user, we wanted to reach out to you directly. We recognize this will change your experience participating in the [...] 27 May 2010, 12:39 pm | 9 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Newsgroups, NNTP | Category: Announcement, Autodesk, Other Sites, Polls, Web Stuff 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 access. This post discusses only information that is already public knowledge. The native Mac OS X AutoCAD port that Autodesk has been foreshadowing for [...] 24 May 2010, 12:25 pm | 4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Beta software, Confidentiality, Leak | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Interoperability, Other Sites, Performance, Video, Web Stuff 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 to confirm that my mental picture is completely correct. So I hopped over to the Autodesk Knowledge Base and entered “system requirements” in the [...] 14 April 2010, 10:35 pm | 7 comments | Tags: Documentation, Fail, Knowledge Base, Rant | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Customer Service, Fail, Other Sites, Rant, Video, Web Stuff 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, “318 random votes.. http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/ …” Clicking on the link took me to the Autodesk Discussion Groups, but only as far as this message: [...] 6 April 2010, 10:08 am | 4 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Navel Gazing, Newsgroups | Category: Autodesk, Navel Gazing, Other Sites, Web Stuff 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 it. Maybe next year. This year, there was one definite exception to the lameness rule. It was well set up, clever and funny. Siemens [...] 2 April 2010, 12:57 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Cluelessness, Siemens | Category: 3D, Autodesk, Cloud, Fail, Fun, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Rant, Web Stuff 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 Carl). Among other things, he discusses being fired by Carol Bartz, Autodesk’s role in Avatar, the benefits of piracy, iPhones, 3D printing, open source [...] 9 March 2010, 2:08 pm | 3 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Avatar, Carl Bass, Carol Bartz, Video | Category: 3D, Autodesk, Other Sites, Video 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 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 get in soon. There are 19 simple questions on one page, and it only takes a couple of minutes. If you have questions about [...] 26 June 2009, 4:13 pm | One comment | Tags: AUGI, AUGI Salary Survey, Melanie Perry | Category: AUGI, Other Blogs, Other Sites 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- and low-res PDF format, plus an on-line reader. The first issue has 82 pages of almost entirely Revit articles and is very light on [...] 24 June 2009, 8:25 pm | One comment | Tags: AEC EDGE, AUGI | Category: Advertising, AUGI, Other Sites, Writing 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 good in a Vista-black kind of way. I know some of you don’t like the black look in software, but I do. The [...] 25 March 2009, 8:20 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Melanie Perry, Web Stuff | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Interview, Other Sites, Thoughts, Video, Web Stuff 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 |
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AUGI Special Election – Candidates
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 June. The candidates are (in alphabetical order):
Mark Kiker – Current AUGI President, runs the CADDManager Blog, one of the candidates in the failed [...]