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AutoCAD WS contest poll added

10 September 2010 at 10:27 am » Comments (1)

Thanks to all entrants in the AutoCAD WS contest. I have now closed the entries and added a poll (see right). Although I did state that there would be no ...more »

AutoCAD WS Contest

6 September 2010 at 9:35 pm » Comments (21)

Autodesk's linking app to allow iThings to connect to Project Butterfly is called AutoCAD WS. Never mind the "AutoCAD", that's just there to confuse matters. What does the "WS" stand ...more »

Autodesk discussion group update – what do you think?

11 June 2010 at 12:00 pm » Comments (10)

On 4 June 2010, Autodesk turned off NNTP access to its discussion groups as part of the process of updating its software to use a different engine (the new one ...more »

What proportion of Autodesk customers really are on Subscription?

28 May 2010 at 12:55 pm » Comments (6)

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 ...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 »

Callan Carpenter interview 5 – the 12 month cycle

24 May 2010 at 9:09 am » Comments (2)

This 5th post concludes the Callan Carpenter interview series. For the record, this interview was done in real time over the phone, with no prior notice of the questions. SJ: The ...more »

Command line poll replaced

18 May 2010 at 8:35 am » Comments (7)

For the past couple of months, I have been running a poll about the command line. I ran it using wording copied directly from a Project Butterfly poll, to get ...more »

Ribbon poll roundup

17 May 2010 at 1:36 pm » Comments (0)

Further to my last post, Here is a brief summary of this blog's various poll results that relate in some way to Ribbon and CIP use. The most recent polls ...more »

Autodesk’s CIP data – massively biased?

14 May 2010 at 4:47 pm » Comments (10)

You may have seen Shaan Hurley and I having a discussion (ahem) over the validity of his statement: I really do use the ribbon now with AutoCAD 2010 along with most ...more »

We have a winner

12 April 2010 at 10:08 pm » Comments (2)

Congratulations to Brian Benton from CAD-a-Blog. His alternative name for AutoCAD 2011, R.E.A.L. (Real Expensive AutoCAD License) was clearly the most popular among those who voted in the pin the ...more »

Competition poll now open

29 March 2010 at 9:07 pm » Comments (0)

In a shock move, Autodesk's general design product for this year was named AutoCAD 2011. I thought AutoCAD Banana or Generic CADD 7 stood a chance, but it was ...more »

AutoCAD 2011′s new Help system – what do you think?

28 March 2010 at 9:20 am » Comments (12)

With all this talk of clouds in the air, it is interesting to note that Autodesk has moved AutoCAD's Help system to a browser-based format, with online access as the ...more »

Polls, especially CIP and Ribbon settings

22 March 2010 at 11:45 am » Comments (7)

I encourage all my readers to participate in the variety of polls I have made available, over towards the right of this site. In particular, if you're a user of ...more »

Can you work without a command line?

26 February 2010 at 5:34 pm » Comments (15)

On the Project Butterfly blog, a recent poll gave these choices: I can’t work without the command line I think it’s time for a new way to draw without the command line In ...more »

Ribbon acceptance in AutoCAD and Revit

9 September 2009 at 4:14 pm » Comments (19)

AutoCAD Ribbon use (and non-use) may have been the hottest topic on this blog to date, but it's a storm in a teacup compared with what has been going on ...more »

These messages are brought to you by AutoCAD

31 August 2009 at 11:39 am » Comments (7)

Over the past few releases, and particularly in AutoCAD 2009 and 2010, I have noticed an increase in the number of information notices (bubbles, warnings, task dialogs, Communication Center notices, ...more »

The 12-month cycle and shipping software with known bugs

15 June 2009 at 1:49 pm » Comments (9)

In a recent blog post, Deelip Menezes appears to be shocked by the very idea that a particular CAD company (no, not Autodesk) would ship software that contains known bugs. ...more »

Should you read software license agreements?

22 April 2009 at 6:23 pm » Comments (3)

Evan Yares has raised an interesting point about the insolvency clause in Autodesk's End User License Agreement. Please read the whole thing, but the gist is that there's a clause ...more »

Evan Yares, ODA, Autodesk and click-through agreements

15 April 2009 at 4:44 pm » Comments (0)

I've always found it entertaining when the lawyers of CAD companies do their best to make their clients look like total jerks. The opening shots as presented by Evan Yares ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Will you miss the Menu Browser?

20 February 2009 at 2:48 pm » Comments (6)

I've closed the poll that asked AutoCAD 2009 users about their MENUBAR setting. It's very clear that pull-down menus are still very much in use in the Ribboned world of ...more »