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Quick and dirty clicks and drags in AutoCAD

12 March 2010 at 2:19 pm » Comments (3)

I'm sure most of you draw your objects with great precision. But sometimes even the most precise among us may want to make a quick and dirty move or copy ...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 »

Hope for drcauto LT Toolkit orphans

15 January 2010 at 12:20 pm » Comments (2)

LT Toolkit from the now-defunct drcauto was an add-on for AutoCAD LT that provided LISP and other capabilities that Autodesk disabled. Autodesk hated this, of course, but the late Gary ...more »

AutoCAD virus protection update

14 August 2009 at 5:29 pm » Comments (2)

As I mentioned in my last post, I had some reservations about the code provided by Autodesk to deal with suspect acad.vlx and logo.gif files. Based on a suggestion from ...more »

Another AutoCAD malware warning

10 August 2009 at 4:58 pm » Comments (2)

Shaan Hurley has posted some useful information about another AutoCAD-based virus that is doing the rounds, and I strongly suggest you read it. However, I have some reservations about the ...more »

AutoCAD malware warning

9 July 2009 at 10:08 am » Comments (0)

There is a piece of malware out there written as an ObjectARX application, i.e. it will only affect AutoCAD users. It's a China-based adware client, which Andrew Brandt at the ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Putting things back to “normal”

16 June 2009 at 12:44 pm » Comments (38)

Easily the most popular post on this blog, in terms of both hits and comments, is AutoCAD 2009 - Putting things back to "normal". Lots of people seemed to find ...more »

Go and snag a free Snagit, quick!

5 June 2009 at 2:32 pm » Comments (1)

For the next few hours, you can get a free registered version of the screen capture software Snagit from TechSmith. It's a couple of versions old and not supported on ...more »

AutoCAD’s magic vanishing attachments

30 April 2009 at 10:36 pm » Comments (1)

There are now quite a few file types that you can attach to an AutoCAD drawing as a reference, in the same way that you can attach other drawings as ...more »

Autodesk Assistance Program and the educational watermark

17 April 2009 at 1:38 pm » Comments (2)

You have probably seen blog posts about the Autodesk Assistance Program (see the FAQ PDF), promoted as a hand-up for the less fortunate who find themselves unemployed as a result ...more »

Buying 24″ monitors – is now the right time?

15 April 2009 at 2:27 pm » Comments (8)

I'm doing my bit to reduce the impact of the global financial crisis. Yesterday, I went out and bought a couple of new 24" monitors to replace my perfectly functional ...more »

Older AutoCAD loses (part of) the plot

23 February 2009 at 11:58 am » Comments (21)

I know there are plenty of people still using AutoCAD 2007 and earlier, so this bug warning may save some of you some grief. I have no idea how widespread ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Will you miss the Menu Browser?

20 February 2009 at 2:48 pm » Comments (4)

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 »

Gravatars – how to get a picture next to your comment

17 February 2009 at 1:11 pm » Comments (4)

After some recent site maintenance here, you may have noticed that the comments look a bit different, and that some people's comments have a little picture next to them. This ...more »

Adding Heidi

30 January 2009 at 9:50 am » Comments (2)

Although I want to keep my list of links reasonably compact, it should not have taken until now to add the AutoCAD Insider blog of Autodesk's Heidi Hewett to the ...more »

Handy home hint

25 January 2009 at 8:32 pm » Comments (2)

If you are turning over food on a hot barbecue plate, it's not a good idea to use your fingers. No prizes will be awarded for guessing how I managed to ...more »

Why I won’t buy another Canon all-in-one printer

21 October 2008 at 1:10 pm » Comments (7)

Last year, I bought a Canon MP830 printer/scanner/copier/fax/tea maker/whatever for my home office. I chose this particular device because it had all the features I was after, including CD printing, ...more »

How not to do a web update

1 October 2008 at 3:44 pm » Comments (4)

If you're a major company and your various web-based services have evolved over time, you may have a proliferation of user IDs and some other issues to tidy up. You may ...more »

Autodesk discussion group links – feedback and bookmarks

26 September 2008 at 12:36 pm » Comments (1)

The Autodesk discussion groups are currently working. They are also still irresponsibly displaying people's email addresses as visible user names. If you've posted to the discussion groups in the past, ...more »

Autodesk discussion group alternatives

25 September 2008 at 10:28 am » Comments (3)

As I'm typing this, the Autodesk discussion groups are down for maintenance again. Let's hope that when they come back up, some of the problems are fixed. In the meantime, if ...more »
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