After an interminable delay and a complete absence of information from Autodesk (no, “contact your reseller” doesn’t count, especially when they don’t know anything either), it seems Raster Design 2011 is going to be released on 20 July. If that’s correct, those of you who use, say, image formats not directly supported by AutoCAD [...]
 28 June 2010, 6:34 pm |  Leave a comment | Tags: 12-Month Release Cycle, Delay, Raster Design, Release date | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Customer Service, Fail, Rant, Raster Design, Subscription Thanks to Brian and Rick for pointing out the availability of a hotfix for Raster Design 2010′s standalone/network license incompatibility. As a bonus, it also fixes some Raster Design / Civil 3D stability issues. The hotfix is available here, and as always with patches, fixes, service packs and updates, read the readme first. Note [...] 23 June 2009, 12:09 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Licensing, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD 2010, Bug, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design Autodesk has been in touch to confirm that the failure to allow a mixed network/standalone environment is confined to Raster Design. I haven’t yet tested this myself, but I’ve been told unequivocally that you can mix standalone and network license models for the major products. Here is the official Autodesk response to the issue: [...] 1 May 2009, 9:09 am |  4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2010, Interoperability, Licensing, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design I have been in touch with various people at Autodesk about Raster Design 2010′s failure to work in a mixed standalone/network environment. These people have all been suitably apologetic, they assure me it wasn’t a deliberate move on Autodesk’s part, and that moves are afoot to provide a solution fairly soon. For example: Our [...] 27 April 2009, 12:00 am | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Licensing, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design I was horrified to learn (in this Autodesk Discussion Group thread) that Autodesk has changed the rules as far as the way Raster Design licenses are handled. It’s quite possible that Autodesk has also done this with other products that I’m not yet aware of. If so, please comment and let me know. If [...] 20 April 2009, 4:40 pm | 10 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Idiocy, Licensing, Rant, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD 2010, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Rant, Raster Design |
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