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When is AutoCAD not AutoCAD?

1 September 2010 at 5:04 pm » Comments (5)

When is AutoCAD nor AutoCAD? When it's AutoCAD WS. But it's not quite that simple. I've been correcting people for months when they say things like "Project Butterfly is AutoCAD on ...more »

Missing language pack fixes compared

26 July 2010 at 10:59 am » Comments (2)

Having tried out the cleanup fixes from both Autodesk and Owen Wengerd, they both appear to work fine. Here are some points of comparison: Owen's utility will work with any AutoCAD ...more »

Edwin’s 100 tips, plus my own

2 July 2010 at 3:49 pm » Comments (2)

Over at Edwin Prakaso's CAD Notes site, he has collected 100 AutoCAD tips and published them in a highly useful post. Very nice job, Edo. While you blog readers are collecting ...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 »

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 »

Restoring Hatch double-click in AutoCAD 2011

10 May 2010 at 12:39 pm » Comments (6)

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 ...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 »

Autodesk shows Dassault how to treat customers

30 April 2010 at 2:03 pm » Comments (6)

There are areas of Autodesk's treatment of customers that leaves much to be desired, and I will most likely continue to be critical of that until a) I die; b) ...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 »

What would you ask Autodesk about Subscription and upgrades?

14 April 2010 at 1:51 pm » Comments (4)

My post on Autodesk's new upgrade pricing regime attracted a fair amount of comment, much of it critical of Autodesk. So, let's follow this up. Let's say, just hypothetically, that you ...more »

AutoCAD for Mac under construction

13 April 2010 at 2:55 pm » Comments (5)

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 ...more »

AutoCAD Classic Interface Survey

6 April 2010 at 9:41 am » Comments (0)

Twitter throws up a gem every now and then. I just saw this in a retweet by Melanie Perry of a tweet from Autodesk's Elena Fadeeva: AutoCAD Toolbars and Menus Survey I ...more »

AutoCAD 2011′s new Help system – what do you think?

28 March 2010 at 9:20 am » Comments (12)

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 ...more »

AutoCAD tip – which drawings use an xref?

15 March 2010 at 10:42 pm » Comments (5)

Here's a tip I just rediscovered while cleaning out my old emails. It applies to all recent AutoCAD releases. Let's say you have a drawing that you think has been used ...more »

Quick and dirty clicks and drags in AutoCAD

12 March 2010 at 2:19 pm » Comments (10)

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 2009 & 2010 users – out of memory errors?

10 March 2010 at 1:06 pm » Comments (11)

Some of the users I support have repeated out-of-memory errors while editing fairly simple drawings. I have some 2010 users who suffer from this problem while others using the same ...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 »

Ribbon acceptance in AutoCAD and Revit

9 September 2009 at 4:14 pm » Comments (19)

AutoCAD Ribbon use (and non-use) may have been the hottest topic on this blog to date, but it's a storm in a teacup compared with what has been going on ...more »