AutoCAD for Mac Launch Event Videos

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See the videos of Autodesk’s AutoCAD for Mac Launch Event from August 31st, 2010. View the demonstrations & presentations as well as learn more information about the upcoming AutoCAD for Mac product.

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AutoCAD for Mac Brochure Download

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The AutoCAD for Mac product brochure in PDF format is now available for download.

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Dept. of Subtle – Moving Fields in a Schedule

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As you probably already know, moving schedule fields around is limited to a Move Up and Move Down button in the Schedule properties dialog. A schedule with many fields has a list longer than the space in the dialog allows for. Revit introduces a vertical scroll bar to help us out. The list doesn’t follow the movement of a field as you move it up and down though which means you lose track of where it is as soon as you raise it above the top of the displayed list or drop it below the bottom of the displayed list. We get to play a little game of “click, click, click, scroll, click, click, click, scroll” until we find it in the correct location.

It is this annoying issue that caused me to realize that I could just select everything else I want to move under or above a given field instead. One click of the Move Down or Up would put it exactly where I wanted it to be. It is a bit of reverse thinking, do the opposite of what you want, to get what you want. I figured a VIDEO would help this post so I made MADE ONE. Hope it helps!

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Call for Abstracts – RTC Gold Coast Australia

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The Australian Revit Technology Conference will be held at Jupiters Gold Coast, Queensland, between the 26th and 28th of May, 2011.The online abstract submission site is now open, and will close on Friday October 22nd, 2010.

We are now seeking abstracts from individuals interested in speaking at the event. Increase your profile in the industry – speak at RTC 2011. This is your opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise with other Revit Users.

Submitted abstracts will be double-blind refereed by the RTC Committee. Abstracts will be approved on their merit, within the conference’s time and resource constraints. Successful applicants will present in either a 55 minute or 80 minute session or a 90 minute lab. Applicants should indicate the preferred length of their planned session. Sessions can take the form of labs, technical presentations, or facilitated forums. Case studies demonstrating innovative or well-developed practice are welcomed. Abstracts should be classified as Intermediate, Advanced or All Levels in the following streams:

• Architecture
• Structure
• MEP
• BIM Management & Collaboration
• Sustainability
• Owners / Facility Managers
• Visualisation and Presentation
• General
• Principals

Please note that this current call for abstracts is for the Australian event only, and a second call for abstracts will be made in relation to RTC USA, to be held in Orange County, California 6 weeks later. You are free to submit abstracts for either event, or for both, once the US abstract site has opened.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT NOW

You can follow the events on Twitter now.

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Friday Fun: AutoCAD Command Line by ArchiteXts

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I get a kick out of the cartoonist behind the ArchiteXts series. This week they did a comic on the AutoCAD Command Line.

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Lynn Allen’s Pet Goat Named “Leno”

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Lynn Allen has a pet goat named “Leno. Since I had the special opportunity to visit with Jay Leno last weekend in Burbank California, I asked him to autograph the photo of Lynn’s goat named “leno”. I just did not mention to Jay that she also has a goat named “Conan”.

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AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS Launch Event in San Francisco

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Last night in the Autodesk Gallery at One Market there was a gathering of press, Autodesk customers, Autodesk employees, and Apple employees to celebrate the new products that were announced.

AutoCAD for Mac A native 64bit Mac application.

AutoCAD WS for the Apple iOS devices such as iPad, iPhone ,iPod.

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AutoCAD for Mac Launch Video “Things are Getting Better” Download Quicktime.mov version

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The catchy new AutoCAD for Mac video available on Autodesk.com and YouTube is now hosted on my blog for those unable to view Flash or YouTube videos.

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The Governing Body of AutoCAD Workspaces

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Word to the Wise: Workspaces.

Workspace definition (per the Help menu): Workspaces are sets of menus, toolbars, palettes, and ribbon control panels that are grouped and organized so that you can work in a custom, task-oriented drawing environment.

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AUGI | AEC EDGE – Seeking Department Editors

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There are two departments in AUGI’s eZine AUGI | AEC EDGE called; Inside Track and Heads UP. We’d like to find two people that are interested in taking these departments over, one person for each or one person to take over both depending on your interest.

Your task is to compile information that will be useful and interesting to our members and readers as time passes between issues and compile this information into each department’s space for each issue. Ideally with some passion and effort you could make it a lot better than I’ve been doing. This means you need to stay plugged in to what’s going on around us to help us stay informed (and not just in the Revit “sphere”).

• Inside Track is intended for recent developments, interesting products, Autodesk Lab items etc.
• Heads UP – bugs, recent known issues other red flag items for Autodesk software that might get missed and worth echoing. It can also be culled from recent member posts advising of an issue that has yet to be acknowledged.

If you are interested please send me an EMAIL

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