The new year 2004 has started working it way around the globe with New Zealand and Australia out in front. Well at least I have at least 19 more hours of planning tonights festivities here in California! Happy New Years... Read more →

Autodesk is located in San Rafael California just about 20 miles North of the famous Golden Gate Bridge and the city of San Francisco. If you are ever in the area and want a quick tour of where AutoCAD is... Read more →

I just added throughout the entire Autodesk Beta website the ability to chat with a beta team member when Traci or I are online. This was done to allow for easy answers quick and fast for visitors interested in beta... Read more →

AutoCAD longtime guru Dietmar Rudolph created an AutoCAD LISP routine in 1997 to draw a random 3D Christmas tree. You can download the LISP routine from the below link then simply use APPLOAD to load the LSP file and then... Read more →

Here is a holiday greeting photo I recently created of most of the AutoCAD Team here at Autodesk. I had to do some editing to fit some people into the photo which was taken at a team meeting a couple... Read more →

I have seen some very clever usage of DWF files on a corporate network. You can show employee locations, printers and in many cases even install and map to the printers of an office as shown in Jimmy Bergmark’s intranet... Read more →

It hit between San Francisco and Los Angeles at Cambria and was a 6.5 magnitude quake. It occured about 200 miles South of me and I did not feel it but some up here have. I hope all are safe... Read more →

For the past few years I have raided my office for Not for Resale copies of Autodesk products to give away in the holiday spirit. All I need is your email with details of a student or someone in need... Read more →

I mentioned last week (here) the planned outage of the public discussion groups for updates. Well the discussion groups are once again live and thriving with activity. I am sure many thousands of lurkers to the groups were going through... Read more →

During the holidays I plan on cleaning my office. It has become a disorganized clutter of geeky books, gadgets, and computers. Of course it all makes sense and order to me but heck when I have visitors it could scare... Read more →

I have hit a minor milestone in this blogging experience with my one hundredth entry and thousands visiting daily to this blog and my Autodesk University 2003 Photo Album. I am enjoying how easy and quick the experience is. It... Read more →

Just browsing through my web browser favorite links on a Sunday and I found this gem of a resource. http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/default.asp?af=3&re=1&se=AutoCAD There are many other application tutorials on this site as well. Some of the AutoCAD tutorials listed in the site... Read more →

The next Service Pack for Microsoft Windows will be released in the near future. The aim of this Service Pack is to increase the security of the Operating System so that users without a firewall or anti virus are less... Read more →

After a recent event, it came to my attention that some computer users still do not understand the simple concept of wireless or virus security. When you attend an event, hotel, coffee shop, airport, or your home and connect your... Read more →

The best Autodesk product resource, the public discussion groups are getting a major makeover this weekend. There will be a weekend outage while this transition takes place. I know many active posters and lurkers will go through withdrawls while the... Read more →

AU 2003 Photo Link - Lee at AU 2003 During the Industry Session for General Design with the AutoCAD Team panel, a question was asked about the ability to filter out objects like Mtext, Blocks and Dimensions so they can't... Read more →

Greetings to all who have spread the blog URL around. I just noticed today that the following CAD industry news sites have spread the blog in the past 24 hours: cadalyst.com caddigest.com cadwire.net tenlinks.com If you have feedback or suggestions... Read more →

http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2003/session_handouts.cfm A lot of hard work went into these class handouts. Make sure if you use the material in your company to give full credit to the author/instructors and AU. Seeing just the class materials is a far cry from... Read more →

From: Arjan Timmermans Cyco Software, Americas "I was SO excited to see an AutoCAD weblog today. Terrific! I have been maintainting several weblogs myself (TypePad rocks!), and I feel this is a great way to keep people informed in a... Read more →

We are looking for some more active feedback oriented beta candidates. Our Beta Program provides Autodesk customers worldwide with an exciting opportunity to be involved in developing a product line. The goal of the Beta Program is to test each... Read more →

Here are some nice AutoCAD related links I just ran across. AutoCAD tutorials by Michael E. Beall of http://www.autocadtrainerguy.com/ http://www.cadtutor.net/michael/index.html CAD Manager Survey, part 2 by CAD Manager Expert and all around nice guy Robert Green of Cadalyst Magazine http://www.cadonline.com/solutions/mc/1203cm/... Read more →

There is a new version of the free RSS feed aggregator. There are many new features to this great tool such as one can now search for feeds by keyword as well as by URL. This means one can search... Read more →

Every year at Autodesk University AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) presents their member’s top ten AutoCAD wish list to Autodesk. We at Autodesk try our best at getting them in. The AutoCAD Team has been fairly successful in adding many... Read more →

You can find a few more AU 2003 photos on AUGI.com. There is a free registration required. http://www.augi.com/home/default.asp?page=333 I will also be updating my AU 2003 photo gallery over the weekend with even more photos and annotations. Cheers, -Shaan Read more →

Over 3300 in attendance at Autodesk University 2003 have many news stories and new ideas and information to take back to their offices and share. It was one of the best Autodesk University events I have ever attended. The course... Read more →