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iPad, iPhone app – good and bad news

3 September 2010 at 5:28 pm » Comments (1)

Good news! Autodesk has announced an app that will link iPads and iPhones to Project Butterfly. This provides viewing, markup and limited editing facilities. Bad news! Autodesk has decide to call it ...more »

AutoCAD for Mac – what’s missing?

1 September 2010 at 6:06 pm » Comments (6)

According to Autodesk, the forthcoming OS X version of AutoCAD has "many of the powerful AutoCAD features and functionality." So what doesn't it have? What are the holes? Autodesk hasn't ...more »

More Autodesk deception over LT productivity study

25 August 2010 at 1:23 pm » Comments (4)

Following on from the AutoCAD 2011 productivity study I critiqued earlier, there is now an LT version. Do the same credibility problems apply to this study too? Yes, and then ...more »

Not answering the question

13 August 2010 at 12:23 pm » Comments (17)

Here in Australia, we're in election mode, so I have even more reasons to avoid watching TV. On those occasions when I do watch it, I am often annoyed by ...more »

Studying Autodesk’s productivity study

4 August 2010 at 4:04 pm » Comments (8)

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 ...more »

Censorship on the Autodesk discussion groups

28 June 2010 at 1:24 pm » Comments (6)

The Autodesk discussion groups have quite a few problems at the moment, which I will discuss at length in future. One unnecessary problem that has been added to the mix ...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 »

Does Autodesk discuss future plans?

26 May 2010 at 1:57 pm » Comments (6)

According to Shaan, Autodesk does not discuss its future plans. Or does it? In a comment, Ralph reckoned it does. Putting aside technology previews and various NDA-bound circumstances (e.g. Beta ...more »

Callan Carpenter interview 3 – the cost of complexity

21 May 2010 at 8:54 am » Comments (1)

Part 3 of 5 in this series. SJ: In one of my blog posts, I was pretty cynical about one of the phrases used in the press release: "the streamlining of ...more »

The Machine that Won the War

19 May 2010 at 8:04 am » Comments (3)

I just wanted to get on the record that I don't trust claims based on statistical data without being able to review in detail the methods used to obtain and ...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 »

It’s not easy being green (and believed)

23 April 2010 at 2:39 pm » Comments (7)

I know that some of you out there (unlike me) are pretty cynical about anything that Autodesk says on any subject. So when Autodesk makes a big thing about being ...more »

Autodesk Subscription – it could be worse

18 April 2010 at 9:26 pm » Comments (12)

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 ...more »

Some meaningless AutoCAD 2011 numbers

26 March 2010 at 5:41 pm » Comments (2)

According to David Cohn, at yesterday's blogger event in San Fransisco prior to the 2011 launch, Autodesk provided the following figures: 76,000 man hours spent on Q/A of the new release 6,000 ...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 »

AutoCAD does a Cheshire Cat

19 February 2010 at 3:06 pm » Comments (4)

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat gradually disappears until nothing is left but its smile. The AutoCAD packaging has done the same thing over the years until now ...more »