A question in a private myfeedback.autodesk.com discussion forum (we have over 90 projects ongoing during this busiest of season for betas, sign up) I had a question that reminded me about a great resource I helped start but had not... Read more →

Membership in the Autodesk Impression Community is free and has plenty to offer including galleries, discussions, tips and tricks, styles, entourage, and now free e-Learning content. Read more →

In the past many had custom routines and blocks to create multiple point leader but the objects were normally not associative to the objects or a single AutoCAD object so that they could be easily updated or edited. In AutoCAD... Read more →

I have been researching some reported items showing on Google and found what I believe to be a concern for people with private data, files, or private pages viewed. Read more →

The new smart image resizing, retargeting, and cropping technology for images and photos called seam carving is amazing and downright brilliant. This was an algorithm developed invented by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan. This is really cool and... Read more →

Autodesk also has many other top notch products that I get to work with and have the luxury in my position to work with all Autodesk product teams. It always amazes me at the level of expertise of people around... Read more →

I just looked at my company calendar and low and behold tomorrow is my 10th year anniversary working at Autodesk. I thought it was actually Monday but was wrong. I started 19-Jan-1998. I moved from Portland Oregon where I was... Read more →

You know you have seen them before, a series of baseline dimensions with differing spaces or adjusted manually until they look fine. You can use the DIMSPACE command to adjust the space to a set distance between them or use... Read more →

It is always pretty cool to watch the evolution of a idea or software. The Autodesk Labs Team has now released an updated Project Draw which allows the web based application to run in the offline mode and synch files... Read more →

FeedDemon is an excellent and powerful full featured RSS Feed reading product and I was a paying customer but a few months ago got hooked on Google Reader. Now Nick Bradbury mentions they have gone free. I am switching back... Read more →

Here is a quick video clip recorded behind the scenes of the general session where 7600 attendees (room limit) were to attend the following day. I grabbed two of the main people for quick comments on what was driving the... Read more →

You cant say you were not warned first. ;-) This will be my 3rd year presenting at the Seattle AUGI CAD Camp. Seattle CAD Camp will be February 21st, 2008. I am planning something special (not Irish riverdancing) since this... Read more →

I want to thank everyone for all the emails and visiting this blog. It has really grown from a geekish hobby to a full blown blog and started many other blogs in the process. I still feel the same passion... Read more →

If you are like me and been a designer or you have a passion for design you will love this web site http://www.oobject.com/ full of photos of vintage objects, current gadgets, DIY items, or designs. For me seeing old designs... Read more →

Lynn Allen announced on her blog that she has a new weekly video series in the Cadalyst CAD Video Gallery titled Lynn Allen's Tips And Tricks starting as a video channel on the Cadalyst magazine website. There are currently 2... Read more →

A new version of this tool to clean up drawings has been updated for the timeout and is now available. I would post screen shots but unfortunately it only works on Windows XP and I am happily on Windows Vista... Read more →

I hope every had a safe and great holidays and Happy New Years. The infamous Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture from Autodesk University 2007 is still safe and ready for action in 2008. The past two days I have spent... Read more →