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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 »

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 »

Autodesk user community survey

23 August 2010 at 2:56 pm » Comments (3)

Autodesk is running a web survey to try to find out which user communities (including blogs) its customers find valuable. If you are interested in participating, the survey is here. ...more »

Magic vanishing images

30 July 2010 at 4:36 pm » Comments (2)

In a thread in the Feedback & Questions about the Discussion Groups section of the Autodesk discussion groups, somebody called ACADuser contributed what I thought was a highly amusing bar ...more »

Autodesk discussion group changes – user reaction

30 June 2010 at 12:36 pm » Comments (0)

I will be airing my own views on the Autodesk discussion group changes in a future post. In the meantime, I have collected some reactions from other users. For the record, there has been ...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 »

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 »

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 »

AutoCAD for Mac in Beta

24 May 2010 at 12:25 pm » Comments (4)

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 ...more »

AutoCAD 2011 online Help changes – a curate’s egg

12 May 2010 at 1:29 pm » Comments (12)

As announced by Shaan Hurley, Autodesk has made some changes to the AutoCAD 2011 online Help system. Please check it out and see what you think. After a short time ...more »

Filling the holes in Autodesk’s CHM Help stopgap

7 May 2010 at 1:18 pm » Comments (3)

It was good to see Autodesk react to criticism of AutoCAD 2011's browser-based Help with an acknowledgement of the problems and an attempt to provide a workaround by making a ...more »

Had any problems with this site lately?

7 May 2010 at 11:18 am » Comments (3)

A couple of days ago, my web hosting server was down. This is pretty unusual with the hosting company I use, but these things can happen to the best from ...more »

Autodesk provides CHM-based Help for AutoCAD 2011

28 April 2010 at 2:27 pm » Comments (7)

In a comment in response to my AutoCAD 2011 Help system is not popular post, Autodesk's Diane Serda acknowledged the problems, offered apologies and posted a link to a CHM ...more »

AutoCAD Internet Survey

27 April 2010 at 9:47 am » Comments (0)

I spotted this on the AutoCAD Research Twitter feed: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AutoCAD_Internet Autodesk wants to know your views on web content and how it relates to AutoCAD and your work. It's a fairly big ...more »

AutoCAD 2011 Help system is not popular

23 April 2010 at 3:48 pm » Comments (9)

My poll on this subject is still running (see right), but so far about 2/3 of respondents rate AutoCAD 2011's new browser-based Help system as 0, 1 or 2 stars ...more »

Autodesk Knowledge Base – rapid response converts fail to win

16 April 2010 at 1:46 pm » Comments (1)

Credit where credit is due. Following my rant about the uselessness of using a 16-minute YouTube video as the AutoCAD 2011 system requirements resource, the relevant people at Autodesk quickly ...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 »

Autodesk Knowledge Base – who thought this was a good idea?

14 April 2010 at 10:35 pm » Comments (7)

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 ...more »

Incoming link: “Important Revit information”

6 April 2010 at 10:08 am » Comments (4)

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, ...more »

Siemens 0, Autodesk (April) 1

2 April 2010 at 12:57 pm » Comments (3)

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 ...more »