Having been very effusive in my praise of AutoCAD 2009′s ViewCube feature, stating among other things that “the ViewCube looks like a finished, polished tool”, I may need to backpedal. Those views, along with all of my 2009 Prequel posts, were based on my experience with the Release Candidate. Although ViewCube was very stable [...]
 12 April 2008, 8:22 pm |  4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Bug, User Interface, ViewCube | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Bug I’ve seen quite a few positive comments about the new automated spell checking feature, with some people saying that it alone is enough to make AutoCAD 2009 worth the price of admission. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but it is a nice feature. If you enter or edit text or mtext, a little [...] 11 April 2008, 5:39 pm | 6 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Spell Checker | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Grammar, Tip If you’ve noticed some normal drafting operations are much slower in AutoCAD 2009 than in earlier releases, try turning off the new Layer Palette and see if the problem goes away. For example, editing viewports with the Layer Palette visible can be completely unworkable. Don’t just auto-hide it, close it altogether. Another problem presented [...] 10 April 2008, 9:29 pm | 5 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Layer Palette, Performance, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Bug, Performance, Tip One of the banes of AutoCAD over the past few years is the phenomenon of the half-baked feature. A new feature is added to the product with serious design deficiencies and/or bugs and other shortcomings that make it much less useful than it should have been. I’m sure you have your own favourite examples [...] 9 April 2008, 4:13 pm | 11 comments | Tags: 12-Month Release Cycle, Action Recorder, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Half-Baked Features | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Rant, Tip I have a lot of posts about AutoCAD and a few about grammar, but I expect this will be the only post I ever make that combines the subjects. Autodesk founder John Walker, a very prominent figure in AutoCAD’s history, has written an article about the correct use of the apostrophe. While I enjoyed [...] 15 March 2008, 9:13 am |  Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Fun, Grammar, John Walker | Category: AutoCAD, Grammar In a comment on my Five More Simple Tips for AutoCAD post, Jeremy had some questions about the Oops command. I thought I would explain the command in more detail in another post so more people will see it. The first thing to understand is that Oops varies from Undo/U in that it only [...] More simple AutoCAD tips, as promised: If you erase some objects, draw a few things and then want your erased objects back without losing the things you drew in the meantime, enter OOPS rather than undoing the commands. At any Select objects: prompt, you can select using a triangle, non-orthogonal rectangle or other odd [...] As my forced change to a different blog theme (thanks IE7) has meant the demise of my random AutoCAD tip feature, you may as well have the tips in a blog post instead. Here are the first five. These are fairly simple tips that apply to all recent releases. You probably know most of [...] 6 March 2008, 9:22 am | Leave a comment | Tags: Announcement, AutoCAD, Tip | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, Tip A belated thank you to Kiwi Robin Capper for his welcome to the CAD blog world. Here’s a snap I took of Robin at Autodesk University 2006: Similarly, thanks to Lynn Allen for linking to my post about her famous Cell Phone Story. Here she is, also at AU 2006, presenting me with [...] 1 March 2008, 8:51 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Lynn Allen, Pictures, Robin Capper, Shaan Hurley | Category: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Fun, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Pictures My last customer service story was about McDonald’s. This one is about Donald Mc., but there the similarity ends. After I returned from Autodesk University 2006, I decided to buy a DVD from the comedian that Autodesk put on before the Blue Man Group, Don McMillan. As you’re reading a CAD blog, you are [...] 28 February 2008, 12:56 pm | One comment | Tags: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, CD, Comedy, Customer Service, Don McMillan, DVD, Video | Category: AU2006, Autodesk University, Customer Service, Fun Lots of people get excited at the prospect of AutoCAD running under Linux. I’m not one of those people, but for those of you that are, here’s a video from a Linux enthusiast that shows AutoCAD running in an environment that’s doing all kinds of cool geeky stuff. It’s not mine and it’s from [...] 28 February 2008, 10:22 am | 11 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, Linux, Video | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2000, Fun, Linux, Video Part of an excellent show put on by Autodesk at the end of Autodesk University 2006 was The Blue Man Group. I was so impressed by the show that I later bought a DVD and CD. The men in blue had a special guest… YouTube Link Artist site: Blue Man Group [...] 25 February 2008, 9:28 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Shaan Hurley, Video | Category: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Fun, Music, Video In AutoCAD, when you have a drawing open and you go to open another, does Open automatically scroll down and highlight your current drawing? This can be very handy when you’re working your way though a set of drawings. If this isn’t happening for you, here’s how to make it do so. [...] The top of the blog nauseam page now features a randomly selected AutoCAD tip. There are only a few at the moment, but I will be adding many more as time goes on. 21 February 2008, 5:06 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Announcement, AutoCAD, Tip | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, Tip I’d like to thank Mistress of the Dorkness Melanie Perry for her kind welcome to the CAD blog world. I appreciate the flattering photo (from Autodesk University 2006) and felt compelled to return the favour. 21 February 2008, 11:46 am | 3 comments | Tags: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Melanie Perry, Photo | Category: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Fun, Other Blogs, Pictures I didn’t make this video and it’s old news, but as I contributed some photos and I’m in it, I guess I’m entitled to link to it in my blog now I have one. If nothing else, you can use it to see what I look like (unfortunately). Except I now look different. By [...] 21 February 2008, 10:41 am | Leave a comment | Tags: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Shaan Hurley, Video | Category: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Fun, Video Whatever the subject, Autodesk evangelist and fellow Cadalyst writer Lynn Allen always gives a very entertaining and informative presentation. If you attend one and you’re lucky, you might get to hear this now infamous story. This footage was taken at Autodesk University, Las Vegas, November 2006. Sorry the sound’s not the best, you may [...] 21 February 2008, 10:17 am | 7 comments | Tags: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Cell Phone Story, Lynn Allen, Video | Category: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Fun, Video |
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