See how the Tesla electric vehicle is lifted to the second floor level of Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco. Read more →

Happy Birthday Autodesk! It was 29 years ago today January 30th in 1982 a small group of people held an initial meeting to organize what became Autodesk. On April 26th 1982 Autodesk was incorporated in the State of California. Since... Read more →

It is always amazing to see what Autodesk customers do with our software and technology. In this case, it is definitely an entertaining experience learning about a great design team and company by watching the video (link below) rockin’ the storyline and some great backing music to make it just that much more of an experience. Read more →

When I hit 2000 followers to my @mrcadman Twitter account, I am going to give away a special prize to the 2000th follower. I also love my longtime followers and will be randomly awarding goodies to several of them when I reach 2000. Only a couple to go! Read more →

The Autodesk Assistance Program will stop taking new enrollments on January 31st, 2011.The Autodesk Assistance Program was started in 2009 to benefit those who were out of work and looking to improve or expand their skills, or just keep their... Read more →

Students can download and receive a free 3 year license for many Autodesk products. All you need to do is register for free at the Autodesk Education Community http://students.autodesk.com. This student community of over 1.3 million has worldwide members from... Read more →

At Autodesk University 2010 I presented several labs and lectures (8+) on AutoCAD for Mac. I created a handout for one lecture AC333-3 "I am a Mac and a PC": AutoCAD® for Windows® and Mac® – We Both Speak AutoLISP® and Command Line. I am sharing this handout which contains some good tips and information I covered in the1 hour lecture. Read more →

Please join me for a live webinar presented by Novedge. I will be showing AutoCAD for Mac with an overview of the compatibility, features, interface, system requirements, and the 2D & 3D workflow. Read more →

I received a question in the past hour on Twitter from @JenniRene82 “Jennifer” asking how to plot a 30 x 42 paper size PDF using AutoCAD for Mac. Here is a quick Tutorial. Read more →

Kean Walmsley & Scott Sheppard announced a free plugin most working with layers in AutoCAD could really use and that is to DrawOrder By Layer. To explain the plugin simply it places the layers in their top to bottom order based on their layer. This is perfect for easily setting what object to plot or display on top of other layers. Download the plugin, install per readme on AutoCAD 2007 and later releases and based applications, 32/64bit, and use the command DOBYLAY. Read more →

One of the not well known features in AutoCAD WS is to place your AutoCAD drawing on top of a Google Maps. First for those not familiar with AutoCAD WS we need to bring you up to speed on this free collaboration tool used by hundreds of thousands of people since it's launch beginning of October 2010. Read more →

Have you ever wanted all the images you captured in Snagit to be saved elsewhere in another format than .snag formats? This is one of those Snagit tricks that are not well known but are seriously powerful like the custom export option to create an animated Gif from the other Techsmith must have application Camtasia. Perhaps you are a designer, manager, or trainer working on standards, documentation, or presentation or perhaps an author capturing thousands of images like Donnie Gladfelter author of “AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required” and have left all those images managed by Snagit but now want to export all the book related captures to a directory for safe keeping or perhaps all your images for the entire year of 2010. Read more →

You may have noticed in the 3D visualization world there has always been teapots used to test renders or textures. A teapot also made a cameo appearance in Pixar’s Toy Story movie in the tea party scene. Read more →