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January 2010

The Best of AutoCAD 2007 to AutoCAD 2010 IMHO

The Best of AutoCAD 2007 to AutoCAD 2010 IMHO is originally published on Between the Lines At Autodesk University “AU 2009” this year I was filling in for a presenter that was unable to attend Autodesk University 2009. I wrote up the course materials and then I myself ended up in a Las Vegas emergency [...]

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

Focus Groups Participants for AutoCAD and Autodesk Communities Participants Get an iPod Nano 8GB is originally published on Between the Lines Autodesk will be conducting focus group research in January and February 2010 in Boston, Portland and Toronto. Please complete the form if you are interested in giving us feedback to help improve AutoCAD and [...]

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

Focus Groups Participants for AutoCAD and Autodesk Communities Participants Get an iPod Nano 8GB is originally published on Between the Lines Autodesk will be conducting focus group research in January and February 2010 in Boston, Portland and Toronto. Please complete the form if you are interested in giving us feedback to help improve AutoCAD and [...]

Off Topic – Mr. OpEd in Dublin

Off Topic – Mr. OpEd in Dublin is originally published on Revit OpEd I get to travel to Dublin to do some work over the next couple weeks. Using Google Analytics I see that I get between 30-40 visits to the blog a month from Ireland with 20ish of them coming from Dublin. This past [...]

Dept. of Subtle – Copy Option Checked or Unchecked

Dept. of Subtle – Copy Option Checked or Unchecked is originally published on Revit OpEd A post at AUGI by Aaron Rumple reminded me of a very subtle feature using the CTRL key. I stumbled into this using the Offset tool in Revit 2009. Here’s the scenario, imagine you are using the Offset tool to [...]

Revit History in a Timeline

Revit History in a Timeline is originally published on Revit OpEd Every now and then I read some mention of Revit History. Today was a tweet via Twitter which mentions the wiki at Triple D Design. Beau Turner started a wiki (Fall of 2005) focused on Revit (ADT too) and I helped out by setting [...]

Sun VirtualBox

Sun VirtualBox is originally published on Revit I found this little gem before Christmas. I have been running Virtual PC for Windows for the last 12 months using it to test and try alpha and beta software. It was OK, but I found it a little slow especially in relationship to graphics. I could have [...]

84 Years at Autodesk

84 Years at Autodesk is originally published on Between the Lines Today I reached my 12 year anniversary of employment with Autodesk. That is 84 in dog years or 4,383 days. I have been happy and challenged while at Autodesk and look forward to at least another 84 years. I came here from using Autodesk [...]

84 Years at Autodesk

84 Years at Autodesk is originally published on Between the Lines Today I reached my 12 year anniversary of employment with Autodesk. That is 84 in dog years or 4,383 days. I have been happy and challenged while at Autodesk and look forward to at least another 84 years. I came here from using Autodesk [...]

The First Number or Value – Template Setup

The First Number or Value – Template Setup is originally published on Revit OpEd When you place a component, like a door, Revit provides a unique Mark parameter value. Same thing happens when you place a grid. Have you started a new project, placed a door and found a nice number like 234? How about [...]