As announced in AU session CM6445 a few days ago, Autodesk Subscription Center will be retired on or about March 13, 2015 and be replaced by “Autodesk Account“. Autodesk Account will contain all the tools to manage your subscription, in…
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It is time to cast your vote for the candidates running for the three open positions on the AUGI Board of Directors. Click here to become familiar with the candidates and vote. The three candidates who receive the most votes…
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A quick visual update from Autodesk University 2014. The general keynote session kicked off the morning with speakers Jeff Kowalski, CTO, Autodesk, and Carl Bass, CEO, Autodesk. Emily Pilloton from Project H Design also gave an inspirational message about the…
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The corridors are fairly quiet this morning as most people are in their first class. Scenes from Monday morning. Keep in touch at #AU2014 on twitter.
People started arriving days ago, final preparations are being handled, and things are about to begin for real here at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for #AU2014. Corridors like this will be full of attendees starting tomorrow morning. Stay…
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This is related to the previous post from last week on not being able to explode a block. Suppose your reason for exploding the block is that you simply want to copy some geometry or text from within the block….
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Have you ever tried to explode a block, but it failed to explode? Starting in AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD includes an option to prevent blocks from being exploded, as shown here. If you try to explode a block that has been…
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Many of the AutoCAD layer tools formerly known as bonus tools or express tools were added into core AutoCAD in the 2007 release. Two of these tools are Layer Delete and Layer Merge, both of which are great for getting…
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A very common issue with AutoCAD is the presence of the dialog below. If you receive this dialog, it means you are missing a shape file that is referenced in the drawing. Shape files contain shapes that can be used…
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The Autodesk 3DRV tour hit Houston last week at the Sam Houston Race Park. TJ McCue and his crew were heading up this tour stop along with several vendors. There were interesting presentations by Faro Technologies on laser scanning, DOT Product…
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