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CAD International interview on drcauto and other subjects

1 February 2010 at 11:33 pm » Comments (1)

This morning I spoke with CAD International's Nigel Varley. Here is a paraphrased summary of the interview. SJ: When did CAD International buy the drcauto intellectual property rights? NV: About two weeks ...more »

More on drcauto, LT Toolkit and CAD International

1 February 2010 at 4:51 pm » Comments (0)

Things have moved on since my first post on this subject in which I passed on the information that Leonard Liang (a former drcauto employee) could help with codes for ...more »

Hope for drcauto LT Toolkit orphans

15 January 2010 at 12:20 pm » Comments (2)

LT Toolkit from the now-defunct drcauto was an add-on for AutoCAD LT that provided LISP and other capabilities that Autodesk disabled. Autodesk hated this, of course, but the late Gary ...more »

Ralph Lauren – genuinely dumb or trying to be clever?

8 October 2009 at 2:50 pm » Comments (0)

One of the blogs I read regularly is Photoshop Disasters, which recently posted a picture of a Ralph Lauren ad. In common with many fashion photos, this showed a skinny ...more »

AutoCAD virus protection update

14 August 2009 at 5:29 pm » Comments (2)

As I mentioned in my last post, I had some reservations about the code provided by Autodesk to deal with suspect acad.vlx and logo.gif files. Based on a suggestion from ...more »

Another AutoCAD malware warning

10 August 2009 at 4:58 pm » Comments (2)

Shaan Hurley has posted some useful information about another AutoCAD-based virus that is doing the rounds, and I strongly suggest you read it. However, I have some reservations about the ...more »

AutoCAD malware warning

9 July 2009 at 10:08 am » Comments (0)

There is a piece of malware out there written as an ObjectARX application, i.e. it will only affect AutoCAD users. It's a China-based adware client, which Andrew Brandt at the ...more »

The 12-month cycle and shipping software with known bugs

15 June 2009 at 1:49 pm » Comments (9)

In a recent blog post, Deelip Menezes appears to be shocked by the very idea that a particular CAD company (no, not Autodesk) would ship software that contains known bugs. ...more »

Autodesk’s Revit rebellion reaction

26 May 2009 at 1:33 pm » Comments (11)

It's time to examine how Autodesk has reacted to the widespread criticism of Revit 2010. Is Autodesk listening? To be more specific, is Autodesk's Revit team listening? The Good It has been ...more »

Revolt of the Revit Ribbon Renegades

11 May 2009 at 4:26 pm » Comments (4)

I hesitate to cover this subject because my understanding of Revit is very close to nil. I'm going to cover it anyway, because it relates to the Does Autodesk Listen? ...more »

Not another SpacePilot PRO review

17 April 2009 at 4:41 pm » Comments (12)

This post is not about the new SpacePilot PRO 3D controller from 3Dconnexion (a division of Logitech). This post is about the Internet coverage of the launch of that new ...more »

New Autodesk blog for AutoCAD support

16 April 2009 at 12:30 pm » Comments (0)

I've added a link to Without A Net, a new blog on support issues, technical solutions, fixes, and tips for AutoCAD. It's run by Tom Stoeckel, global technical lead for ...more »

Bartz the blogger

27 February 2009 at 1:17 pm » Comments (1)

Autodesk's Executive Chairman of the Board (who has one or two other little jobs, too) has made a Yahoo! blog post in which she promises to kick a donkey, or ...more »

A gaggle of geeks

27 February 2009 at 12:38 pm » Comments (6)

Time to lighten things up a bit, I think. While attending the AutoCAD 2010 product launch in San Francisco on 5 February 2009, I conducted a series of micro-interviews with ...more »

I’m supporting the New Zealand blackout

17 February 2009 at 4:07 pm » Comments (4)

Thanks to Robin Capper for bringing this to my attention. http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html Disclosure: I'm a software developer, artist (of sorts), copyright owner and part of a company that sells software to allow copyright ...more »

Look out for AutoCAD 2010 news

6 February 2009 at 6:27 am » Comments (0)

You can expect a lot of AutoCAD 2010 news to start appearing in this and other blogs today and over the next few days. I'm just about to start interviewing ...more »

Adding Heidi

30 January 2009 at 9:50 am » Comments (2)

Although I want to keep my list of links reasonably compact, it should not have taken until now to add the AutoCAD Insider blog of Autodesk's Heidi Hewett to the ...more »

Typo of the week

20 January 2009 at 10:08 pm » Comments (0)

Thanks, Ralph, for this little gem of a typo in the latest upFront.eZine: IntegrityWare announces tits new Extreme Performance Library more »

Merry Christmas to all our readers

24 December 2008 at 9:37 pm » Comments (1)

Have a good one, everyone! If you're looking for something to amuse you this Christmas Eve, check out the FAIL Blog. A few of the posts look fake, but I went ...more »

Bad Photoshop 1 & 2

11 December 2008 at 1:42 pm » Comments (0)

I've mentioned before that I love the Photoshop Disasters blog, and I've also mentioned that Clark Rubber has provided me with great service. Here's the first of a few posts that ...more »