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Autodesk Alias Sketch for AutoCAD Technology Preview Download Available Now

Get your stylus pens fired up and ready to freehand sketch in AutoCAD! As I mentioned awhile back “Glimpse at Alias Sketch for AutoCAD 2010” a new product was coming. Alias Sketch for AutoCAD is a marriage of the awesome Autodesk SketchBook technology and AutoCAD products. Read more →

Quickie Tip - AutoCAD ICON or TEXT in the Status Bar

In the recent AutoCAD release we have made the default for the Drawing Tools buttons in the status bar display as icons instead of the text. Are you a visual or semantic person, pictures or text preference? You do have the choice to select your preference. Read more →

I am in San Francisco Next Week

I will be in San Francisco California from Tuesday January 19th, 2010 until the following Saturday late morning. I have limited time but wanted to see if anyone Autodesk employees or customers are interested in a coffee and chat sometime... Read more →

Attention FMDesktop Users

FM:Systems Named Autodesk Preferred Industry Partner for Facilities Management and Will Provide an Extended Support Program for Autodesk FMDesktop Software Products. Read more →

AutoCAD Civil 3D in Salt Lake City User Group Meeting Tonight

If you use AutoCAD Civil 3D, want to, or looking to network with others in the Civil engineering field consider attending tonight and joining the WAUG. Read more →

The Best of AutoCAD 2007 to AutoCAD 2010 IMHO

I wanted to provide my AU 2009 course handout for AU222-3 The Best of AutoCAD® 2007–2010 which highlights the top ten features of each release from AutoCAD 2007 to AutoCAD 2010 In My Humble Opinion (IMHO). Read more →

Focus Groups Participants for AutoCAD and Autodesk Communities Participants Get an iPod Nano 8GB

Autodesk will be conducting focus group research in January and February 2010 in Boston, Portland and Toronto for AutoCAD and Autodesk Communities and improving them. Read more →

Ribbon Lovers Unite!

Back in AutoCAD 2009 we introduced the Ribbon User Interface (UI) element which was first introduced in the Microsoft Office 2007 products and now in many software products on the market. Read more →

84 Years at Autodesk

Today I reached my 12 year anniversary of employment with Autodesk. That is 84 in dog years or 4,383 days. Read more →

Between the Lines Blogs Stats for 2009

This post is a token yearly blog wrap-up on the number of readers. I did not create any fancy charts as I am busy catching up on things since being on vacation for 2 weeks. The traffic for the almost 7 years has increased each and every year unlike the global economy. The Between the Lines blog had 1 million visitors from 217 countries using 188 languages on 21 Operating Systems and 74 Browsers. In addition to the web page readers the average RSS Subscribers per day was ~19,000 avg. per day reported by Google Feedburner. Read more →