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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Not a topic to be debated publicly

7 May 2010 at 3:05 pm » Comments (3)

Over on the oft-entertaining Deelip.com, there was an interesting comment made by Autodesk's Scott Sheppard. After going back and forth a few times over Autodesk's then-failure to allow Indian customers legal ...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 »

Would the real Autodesk logo please stand up?

15 April 2010 at 2:43 pm » Comments (7)

Autodesk, in common with other multi-billion-dollar corporations, periodically spends large sums on redeveloping and then consistently presenting its corporate image. It then spends even larger sums making itself look silly ...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 »

Interesting times

24 March 2010 at 1:53 pm » Comments (4)

The past few days haven't been so great for me. Here's what has happened lately: A family member had an expensive musical instrument case burned when it was placed too close ...more »

Celebrating Douglas Bader

22 February 2010 at 3:22 pm » Comments (3)

As I am currently re-reading Reach for the Sky, I happen to know that yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Douglas Bader, a inspirational man who lost ...more »

Comment censorship

15 February 2010 at 10:25 pm » Comments (10)

I want your views on how much control I should exert over the comments that people make here. I've been led to thinking about this by a couple of things. ...more »

Open Letter to James Cameron

8 February 2010 at 11:32 pm » Comments (7)

James, you don't know me, but I see you have been getting involved in CAD events lately, which is my area of interest. Autodesk University 2009 attendees got a sneak ...more »

How will you react to Autodesk’s new upgrade pricing?

8 February 2010 at 10:40 pm » Comments (34)

As I reported early last year, Autodesk is going to discourage you from paying for upgrades as and when you see fit. It is doing this by charging you 50% ...more »

If you admire somebody, please let them know

5 February 2010 at 2:32 pm » Comments (1)

This post has nothing to do with CAD or the other subjects I occasionally cover. Last month, I unexpectedly lost two of my colleagues to cancer. Wayne was a loud, larger-than ...more »

Ralph Lauren – genuinely dumb or trying to be clever?

8 October 2009 at 2:50 pm » Comments (0)

One of the blogs I read regularly is Photoshop Disasters, which recently posted a picture of a Ralph Lauren ad. In common with many fashion photos, this showed a skinny ...more »

Vernor wins (for now), customers don’t

6 October 2009 at 10:19 am » Comments (1)

Don't get too excited, because I'm sure Autodesk will appeal, but as reported at Owen Wengerd's CAD/Court, Vernor has won the right to resell his used copies of AutoCAD. While ...more »

Trusting Autodesk? Contemplating a new product

30 September 2009 at 3:36 pm » Comments (5)

Last week, in my capacity as a de facto CAD manager for a large public utility company, I was having a chat with an Autodesk Australia person (he's a nice ...more »