The first update for AutoCAD 2011 is now available on the Autodesk site. As usual, read the readme first. Make sure you install the right version (32 or 64 bit). The update is also available for AutoCAD LT 2011, but there is no news yet on equivalent updates for vertical variants of [...]
 25 August 2010, 10:09 am |  Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Update | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011 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 with it, here are my experiences using IE6 (yes, I know). As this is a dynamic system and dependent on browser characteristics, Internet connectivity [...] 12 May 2010, 1:29 pm |  12 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Cloud, Fail, Help, Search | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Cloud, Fail, Other Blogs, Performance, Web Stuff In AutoCAD 2011, the default action when double-clicking on a hatch object is to invoke the Properties palette for that object. In previous releases, it would invoke the Hatch Edit dialog box. In my AutoCAD 2011 – Putting things back to “normal” post, I briefly described how to restore the old double-click action. I [...] 10 May 2010, 12:39 pm | 32 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, CUI, Double Click, Hatch, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD 2012, AutoCAD 2013, Customisation, Tip 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 zip file of CHM files available for download. That’s much better than ignoring people’s concerns, denying the validity of those concerns or shooting the messenger, [...] 7 May 2010, 1:18 pm | 6 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, CHM, Civil 3D, Download, Express Tools, Help, Subscription, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Bug, Cloud, Customer Service, Customisation, Development, Other Autodesk Products, Subscription, Tip, Web Stuff Hatching is the poster child for AutoCAD 2011′s 2D drafting feature changes (although there are several other significant ones), and also for demonstrating the advantages of providing a contextual interface via the Ribbon. It looks great at first glance when working with simple demo drawings, but how are things going in the real world? [...] 5 May 2010, 1:11 pm | 16 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Hatch, Ribbon, User Interface, User Reaction | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Performance 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 out of 5 (total fail, very poor or poor). Frankly, I’m surprised it’s doing as well as that. Have a look at this discussion [...] 23 April 2010, 3:48 pm | 9 comments | Tags: 12-Month Release Cycle, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Cluelessness, Comments, Fail, Help, Newsgroups, Rant | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Cloud, Comments, Fail, Rant, Web Stuff Despite it being A Bad Idea, it look like Autodesk is going ahead with making some kind of OS X variant of AutoCAD, as has been hinted at for a while now. Owen Wengerd has pointed out a few dead giveaways in the AutoCAD API. Another giveaway is the move to the browser-based Help [...] 13 April 2010, 2:55 pm | 5 comments | Tags: API, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD for Mac, Owen Wengerd | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Other Blogs 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 name on the product competition. Brian is now the proud (or otherwise) owner of a virtual album, uniVers by Voyager: I’m not sure [...] 12 April 2010, 10:08 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Competition, Metal, Music, Voyager | Category: Announcement, Fun, Music, Other Blogs, Polls 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 not to be. Maybe next year? Over on the right is a poll to allow you to choose who of the 14 entrants wins the [...] 29 March 2010, 9:07 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Competition, Polls | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD 2011, Polls 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 default. So, how has Autodesk done with this first dipping of its toes into the cloudy waters with its primary mainstream product? I’ve already [...] 28 March 2010, 9:20 am | 15 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Comments, Help, Performance, Polls, User Interface, User Reaction | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Cloud, Comments, Performance, Polls 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 total code reviews of new release 2,000 commands tested 4,600 Beta customers involved in AutoCAD 2011 1.4M lines of old code were [...] 26 March 2010, 5:41 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Blogging, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Uncritical thinking | Category: AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Fail, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Spin, Thoughts No, I haven’t written a post containing a summary of AutoCAD 2011 features. I won’t be doing so, either. Instead, I’ll just point you at R.K. McSwain’s excellent AutoCAD 2011 in 3 minutes post on his CAD Panacea blog. I won’t be ignoring the new release; I will be covering selected AutoCAD 2011 features [...] 26 March 2010, 1:07 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, CAD Blogs, CAD Panacea, Other Blogs | Category: AutoCAD 2011, Other Blogs Apparently, AutoCAD 2011 has been available for download for the best part of a day. Here’s my experience so far. As a Subscription customer, I can see a bright new Get Your Upgrade button, and if I click on that I get an AutoCAD 2011 English link to click on. So far so good. [...] 26 March 2010, 11:04 am | 19 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Download, Subscription | Category: AutoCAD 2011, Subscription Easily the most popular post on this blog, in terms of both hits and comments, is AutoCAD 2009 – Putting things back to “normal”. Not too far behind it is AutoCAD 2010 – Putting things back to “normal”. Apparently, lots of people find these posts useful, so here’s an updated version for the latest [...] 25 March 2010, 9:17 pm | 130 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Tip, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Customisation, Nostalgia, Tip My name the product competition has only a short time left to run, so please enter soon if you want to be in the running. With only 12 entries so far, new entrants still have a pretty decent chance of winning. 24 March 2010, 2:06 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Competition, Metal, Music, Voyager | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD 2011, Fun This post is announcing a real competition with a real prize (well, nearly real). The prize will be the album uniVers by my favourite Australian band, Voyager. This will be provided to the winner in the form of a virtual download card which will be emailed to the winner, providing legal access to 320 [...] 18 March 2010, 10:04 pm | 17 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Competition, Metal, Music, Voyager | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD 2011, Comments, Music Just announced by Shaan Hurley via Twitter and Facebook: Busy on the final details for a special Autodesk event next week in San Francisco with some bloggers. http://www.autodesk.com/webcast Follow the link and you will find this: Autodesk Webcast Date: 3/25/10 Start Time: 9:00 SF/12:00 New York/16:00 UK/17:00 CET Register today to join Autodesk CEO [...] 16 March 2010, 10:36 am | 7 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Blogging | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Other Blogs |
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Autodesk provides CHM-based Help for AutoCAD 2011
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 version of the Help. From Diane’s comment:
We have posted the zip file for download here: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?id=15068206&siteID=123112&linkID=9240618
Instructions: 1. Download the AutoCAD2011CHMHelp.zip to your [...]