There is a new AutoCAD 2006 white paper about to be posted to the Autodesk.com website, but Between the Lines blog readers get it first. The paper was written by AutoCAD expert Lee Ambrosius and is on the subject of... Read more →
The top rated Discovery Channel television show Monster House is an Autodesk customer and is now being officially sponsored by Autodesk. The behind the scenes Monster House designers use AutoCAD in the design of the projects. I love this show.... Read more →
This is a prime opportunity to share your story of AutoCAD success with others and gain some publicity for you or your firm. We know AutoCAD customers are responsible for some really cool projects and products as I have seen... Read more →
The AutoCAD Product Design & Usability team would like to invite you to join us for a design briefing of a future version of AutoCAD. We want to share our design ideas with you and ask for your input at... Read more →
The AutoCAD 2006 and AutoCAD LT 2006 Service Pack 1 have now been released after customer and partner beta testing. I provided a list of highlights of items addressed in the service pack in a blog posting on August 11th... Read more →
The complete three part series Dynamic Blocks Best Practices Series is now complete and online. Part 1: Dynamic Block Overview and Quick-Start Tutorial Part 2: Inventory of Block Editor, Commands, Parameters, Actions, and Parameter Sets Part 3: Advanced Features of... Read more →
I have been busy moving to a new house the past few days and now that I have all of my household goods piled in my garage and front room, I can attend AUGI CAD Camp tomorrow. If you are... Read more →
As I had mentioned earlier in the week there was a new AUGI Wish List process and web site coming this week. The new web site is now live and ready for your votes. All you need to be is... Read more →
There is a Service Pack in testing for AutoCAD 2006 to address customer reported issues as well as the customer submitted error reports "CER". Make sure to submit the customer error reports when you see the dialog as they are... Read more →
Three levels of AutoCAD 2006 courseware available: AutoCAD® 2006 Essentials AOTC AutoCAD® 2006 Intermediate AOTC AutoCAD® 2006 Advanced AOTC This is in addition to the transition-oriented titles, AutoCAD 2006 Update and AutoCAD 2006 Transition from AutoCAD 2002. Customer feedback has... Read more →
Here is a new URL to reach AutoCAD 2006 Dynamic Blocks white papers. www.autodesk.com/autocad-blocks Currently there are two parts of a three part series Dynamic Blocks Best Practices Series Part 1: Dynamic Block Overview and Quick-Start Tutorial Part 2: Inventory... Read more →
On Tuesday the 9th of August 2005 the general Autodesk University registration will begin at http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/. For the past week those that are Autodesk Subscription customers or AUGI members received early registration privileges for this years event in Orlando Florida.... Read more →
These videos with audio walk through the new AutoCAD® 2006 Dynamic Blocks feature. Great work Heidi Link to Dynamic Blocks Videos Manipulating Dynamic Blocks The new grips and action features of dynamic blocks allow automatic scaling to the dimension scale... Read more →
With over 8 million downloads of the Autodesk DWF Viewer, downloads of the Autodesk DWF Toolkit continue to take off. The DWF Toolkit allows third parties to develop applications that read or write multi-sheet drawings in DWF (Design Web Format)... Read more →
We’re doing some research into process and power with AutoCAD and are looking for some sample drawings. In particular, we are looking for Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) in DWG format. DWF files would also be useful if DWGs are... Read more →
The registration for Autodesk University 2005 are opening today a week early for AUGI and Autodesk Subscription customers only. Next week will be the public registration. So this is a good reason to be an Autodesk Subscription or AUGI member... Read more →