Autodesk Subscription customers who want to get up to speed quickly on AutoCAD 2006 will find these recently released courses of interest: Dynamic Input = Learn how to use Dynamic Input Interface for Heads-Up design Workspaces = Learn about workspaces... Read more →
The AutoCAD Team is researching what hardware is most commonly used. Please take a few minutes to add your hardware. This data will help the team gauge what hardware is used when researching future AutoCAD release plans. This data will... Read more →
In case you did not notice, in the AutoCAD 2004/2005 Communication Center, there is a link to a survey to get your feedback to the AutoCAD Team. This data helps us as we plan and design future releases. There is... Read more →
AutoCAD 2006 Research Project in the Denver Area We are looking for AutoCAD users to participate in a research project for AutoCAD 2006. If you choose to participate in this research project, you will be asked to perform various tasks... Read more →
Autodesk User Group International AUGI has announced a new AutoCAD Product Community with tips and tricks, gallery, and links. AUGI has free training courses, tips and tricks, fellow product users to network with and learn from, great publications and so... Read more →
Lee Ambrosius pointed out in his blog posting that the latest AUGI World Magazine has a bunch of in-depth AutoCAD 2006 articles. "The latest issue of AUGI World is starting to hit the streets. This issue covers AutoCAD 2006 and... Read more →
The AutoCAD 2006 Streaming Trial is live! It streams AutoCAD 2006 (English) down to your machine where you can run it for 30 days. It will be slower in performance compared to a local machine installation from a CD. It... Read more →
Just a quick post to let everyone know that AutoCAD 2006 is now shipping to customers. This is for US English versions shipping in the Americas. Cheers, Shaan Read more →
Just a few things about the AutoCAD 2006 beta program and helping to shape the future of AutoCAD. The beta program is where customers sign up at http://myfeedback.autodesk.com to test unreleased software. The beta projects typically have over 1000 customer... Read more →
Fernando Malard has posted an interview with AutoCAD developer Albert Szilvasy. The interviews topic is AutoCAD 2006 and the .NET API. The interview is posted on Fernando's blog ObjectARX for Dummies on his ObjectARX for Dummies blog. AutoCAD 2006 -... Read more →
The new Autodesk products will begin shipping soon. I was sent a behind the scenes video showing AutoCAD LT 2006 being packaged and shipped from the Fremont California operations. There are so many employees behind the scenes that are integral... Read more →
After several years at Adobe Systems as the Technology Strategist and Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe’s enterprise business unit, the organization responsible for PDF, Acrobat, and Adobe’s LiveCycle enterprise server solutions, Jonathan Knowles has accepted the position of Director of Worldwide... Read more →
Autodesk customer and AutoCAD guru Lee Ambrosius has published to the web his draft version of what's new in AutoCAD 2006. Definitely worth a look. Link to What's New in AutoCAD 2006 Lee has a blog as well: http://hyperpics.blogs.com/beyond_the_ui/ in... Read more →
Scott Sheppard ([email protected]) a DWF Technical Evangelist for the Autodesk Collaboration Services division has updated the DWF FAQ. There is allot of great DWF information contained in this document. Some highlights of the 35 page DWF FAQ - Version 1.5... Read more →
AutoCAD 2006 has a 100% WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Multiline Text "Mtext" editing. Just in case you need the older AutoCAD 2002 Mtext editor in AutoCAD 2006 for some specific reason, you can use the following:... Read more →
Q: Need to toggle off OSNAP, POLAR & OTRACK to get the equivalent of the old "None" osnap override from R14 and earlier? A: In AutoCAD 2006, we've added a temporary override to disable all snapping and object tracking. Shift... Read more →
Q: In AutoCAD 2006 I used the Move command to relocate an object from the current location to the coordinate of 0,0 for the second point. It keeps coming back as @0,0 to the command line and the object is... Read more →
Q: What happens to the dynamic blocks if you have to save your work back to a previous version? A: If you save back to a prior release you will get the last current set view of the block in... Read more →
A few new discussion groups have opened for some of the upcomoing new products. The discussion groups are a great place to get peer to peer support on your products from fellow users. AutoCAD 2006 Web browser: http://discussion.autodesk.com/forum.jspa?forumID=149 Newsreader: news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.2006... Read more →
There is a flurry of press releases from Autodesk today. The new products are coming! Autodesk Releases Major Updates to Entire Product Portfolio PR Newswire "Autodesk Inc. today announced new versions of its software portfolio, including more than 25 products... Read more →
What's New in AutoCAD 2006 Boost your everyday productivity with these new features: Dynamic blocks give you more drafting control and flexibility over your current blocks, allowing greater manipulation while dramatically reducing the size of block libraries. Improved annotation and... Read more →
Have a look at http://www.autodesk.com. The Autodesk logo is back to a capital "A". I showed the change initially last weekend in a blog post when the signs were changed "Signs of change". There is also a bunch of changes... Read more →
Did you notice? I just updated my Between the Lines blog banner image. Nice to have a fresh banner once in awhile. The other Autodesk blogs are doing the same. Shaan Read more →
AutoCAD® 2006 will be released this month! Which feature do you think you'll use the most? Seamless migration Your customized toolbars and menus migrate automatically when you upgrade. Heads-up design Dynamic input and pointer input allows you to work without... Read more →
ICC (International CAD Council) http://www.icclinks.com Formed by Brian Myers of the Gateway Autodesk User Group in St Louis, Missouri and Tom Sutton of the New Jersey Autodesk User Group. "We recruit outside CAD experts to share their ideas with the... Read more →