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See You at Autodesk University this Year?

The premier CAD user conference with more of everything. I will be there as usual and also have some fun activities planned for those daring enough to venture out into Vegas until the wee hours of the morning. This is... Read more →

The AutoCAD 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Is Released on the new MyFeedback Portal

Service Pack 1 is for the following Autodesk products running on all supported operating systems and languages: AutoCAD 2005 AutoCAD LT 2005 All you need to do is sign up. After you sign up, we will then approve your account... Read more →

Architectural BIM in 3D DWF

The Building Solutions Team sure are a busy group. They have not only been busy with new product development, but also with investigating the new 3D DWF format to output an architectural model with all of the data in the... Read more →

Get a 30 Day Trial of Autodesk DWF Composer

Improve the efficiency and speed of the entire design review process—review, markup, and revisions— with Autodesk® DWF™ Composer. Built around the DWF file format and developed specifically for engineering design data, Autodesk DWF Composer helps you reduce costs, errors, and... Read more →

Autodesk DWF Viewer 5 - Adding More Performance and 3D DWF Files!

I previously mentioned this updated free DWF Viewing product back on July 16th in this blog, but now there is more details and a generic download location for the viewer. Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer, a small, free, downloadable application, allows anyone... Read more →

Going Back to the Amazon Jungle, Do You Want to Join?

After receiving many emails about a trip to the Amazon, I am considering putting together a group trip. I am looking into putting together a group of people to travel back to the love of my life the Amazon Jungle.... Read more →

Upcoming Betas Planned for AutoCAD 2005 and ADT 2005 Service Pack 1

We will begin registration and beta testing of the AutoCAD 2005 and Architectural Desktop Service Pack 1 next week on the new "MyFeedback Portal". More details of these service packs and the changes will be announced soon as well as... Read more →

Creepy Haunted Place...Haystack Landing

This haunted house is in the town I live in. I went to check it out after hearing about it and noticing it along highway 101. The experience and being at the house definitely made my skin crawl. I stopped... Read more →

Another Person Inspired to Record Video from Their Vehicle

It is nice to know I am not alone in thinking that a video of a drive is entertaining when the speed is increased. I noticed a trackback to my blog from a person in Australia that was inspired by... Read more →

Steven Papke Visited Monday

AutoCAD & Viz Power User and Autodesk customer visited while on vacation here in the Bay Area. We gave him the grand tour the behind the scenes of AutoCAD and Viz. Steven is from Jacksonville Florida and runs http://www.vizdepot.com/ as... Read more →

Nice AutoCAD Blocks Article by Beau Turner

Beau has written a nice simple article on his blog Rndr4Food about updating blocks in AutoCAD. "Do you use acad blocks? Do you use the same blocks in multiple drawings? Ever need to update the blocks? If you answered yes... Read more →

Toronto Regional AutoCAD Exchange Meeting Next Week Tuesday, July 27, 2004

TRACE (Toronto Regional AutoCAD Exchange) is a local AutoCAD user group in Toronto Canada. They will be discussing DWF Composer features and compare DWF versus PDF format. They will also have a Q&A session about new features in AutoCAD 2005.... Read more →

Feedback Direct to the Autodesk Product Teams

If you want to provide your feedback on products direct to the teams responsible for them, there is a direct way via a feedback form. This feedback goes directly to the team members. I can speak for the AutoCAD Team... Read more →

The Trouble-Free PC: Tune it up. Back it up. Ramp it up.

Here is a helpful link to a PCWorld artcile on making sure your system is in the best shape and performance as well as your data safe and backed up. Click Here Cheers, -Shaan Read more →

More DWF Benefits

DWFs Retain Design Information A DWF may appear to be a simple image of the original drawing, but in fact it has retained background information about the drawing, including its point location line thickness snapping scaling measurements fonts hyperlinks layers... Read more →

Did You Know the Autodesk DWF Composer Includes a DWG File Viewer

If you purchase the new Autodesk DWF Composer to markup DWF files and more you will also get a DWG file viewer. It is based on AutoCAD. In addition to viewing, you can also Publish files to printers and DWF... Read more →

A New Free Autodesk DWF Viewer 5 for 3D DWF Available for Download

We have released a new Autodesk DWF Viewer 5 specifically for the new 3D DWF format but it also has many updates for regular 2D DWF files especially for raster and text. This version is currently under a limited beta... Read more →

Group Therapy with Bill Fane of Cadalyst Magazine

Cadalyst - Group Therapy Create groups in AutoCAD so you can work with multiple objects as a single unit within your drawings. July 15, 2004 By: Bill Fane Cadalyst Magazine What can I say, I really enjoy reading Bill Fane's... Read more →

Modeling a Log Home in Autodesk Revit

There is an interesting tutorial on how to create sculptured log walls in Autodesk Revit on Revitcity.com. Also while at Revitcity, have a look at the gallery of what Revit users have created using Revit as some are quite impressive.... Read more →

Looking in the Rear View Mirror - Keith Bentley Finds the AutoCAD 2005 Annotation "Impressive"

It is not only nice to be the leader in 2D drafting and design and have others chasing our tail wind, but it is even nicer when the competitor acknowledges some of the features. They have been mentioning things they... Read more →

AutoCAD Tips on DWF and More by Michael Beall the "AutoCADTrainerGuy"

Michael Beall published his July 2004 AutoCAD Tips and Tricks which are always a great resource to pickup a few good productivity enhancing tips. Michael also has a great publication that is another great resource named the AutoCAD Toolbelt in... Read more →

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

Below are some links to information about the upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 which is expected in August. I have been running the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 on my machine and really like it. We... Read more →

Access Nested Objects in a Selection Set Using the Object Properties Manager in AutoCAD

Ryan Small has posted a nice tip article to his "The Autodesk Informer" blog. The tip is on how you can use the Object Propties Manager to access a list of nested objects in a selection set. A quick example... Read more →

AUGI TIPniques - July 2004 - The Autodesk Knowledge Base

Below is a link to a helpful article by Michael Perry discussing the Autodesk online Knowledge Base and other helpful resources. Michael Perry is a member of AUGI and he works in the UK for FaberMaunsell (An AECOM Company) within... Read more →

Discuss 3D With an AutoCAD Product Manager

My coworker Eric Stover an AutoCAD Product Manager would like to speak with customers about 3D in AutoCAD. He would like to speak with customers that he has not spoken with recently and use AutoCAD. All you need to do... Read more →