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Following my comments on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AutoCAD, Autodesk’s Dieter Schlapfer has sought to explain the reasoning behind it. Here’s what he has to say: As mentioned previously, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AutoCAD is designed for occasional AutoCAD users and those coming back from their initial training. These are people who just need [...]  14 September 2012, 9:39 am |  45 comments | Tags: Dieter Schlaepfer, Documentation, Feedback, Help | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2013, Comments Some months ago, I gave Autodesk several damn good (and thoroughly well-deserved) thrashings over its hopelessly inadequate AutoCAD 2013 Help system. When Autodesk’s Dieter Schlaepfer responded and asked for feedback, he sure got it. There are 142 comments on that one post to date, most of them leaving nobody under any illusions about how [...] 12 September 2012, 9:57 pm | 18 comments | Tags: Dieter Schlaepfer, Feedback, Help | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2013, Cloud, Comments, Customer Service, Development, Thoughts, Win Following some email discussions, I am happy to present a response from a relevant Autodesk person to the posts and comments here about AutoCAD 2013′s Help. Thanks for the opportunity to respond to your readers, Steve. First, I want to assure you that we’re listening to your comments about AutoCAD 2013 Help. We are [...] 6 April 2012, 1:00 am | 162 comments | Tags: Bravery, Dieter Schlaepfer, Documentation, Feedback, Help | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2013, Autodesk, Comments, Customer Service |
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Let’s critique AutoCAD’s parametric constraints
One of the big-ticket features of AutoCAD 2010 was parametric constraints. This was old hat for many applications, even some based on AutoCAD like Mechanical Desktop. Parametrics and constraints already existed in vanilla AutoCAD in the guise of dynamic blocks, but this was the first time ordinary AutoCAD allowed ordinary AutoCAD objects to be constrained and linked [...]