Tomorrow September 30th I will be presenting about AutoCAD, Autodesk Impression, Autodesk MyFeedback, and to the Kansas City AutoCAD Users Group KCAUG on the future of AutoCAD. I will be cutting it close as my flight lands at 12:05. My first presentation on AutoCAD 2009 is at 1:45 to 3:00PM and I am sharing the session with Autodesk’s Pete Southwood speaking on AutoCAD Map 3D and GIS.
This will be the tenth annual event. A full day Autodesk products event with over 40 sessions of workshops, presentations and tips and tricks sponsored by Autodesk Premier Solutions Partner Mid-West CAD.
Registration is required.
http://www.mwcad.com/
http://www.mwcad.com/CADMW08.pdf
My presentation and discussion on the future of AutoCAD will be at 6:00 to 7:30PM to KCAUG (please RSVP).
I will be going to Jack Stacks BBQ in Lees Summit for a bite after the event then flying back home Wednesday morning. In keeping with my invitations to chat while traveling, If you are an AutoCAD user and interested in a discussion about AutoCAD with your team at your office or over a cup of coffee, please send me an email.
Has anyone else noticed the changes to airlines flight patterns? Over the past few months I have been tracking my flights and noticed a dramatic change in paths and angle of climb and decent. I confirmed this unofficially with a pilot that it was due to gas consumption. So flights are now making more direct flights and less time flying around an area by making a smaller flight path to the airport. What caused me to wonder was that I was no longer seeing commercial aircraft on landing approach above my house and instead they were making a tight turn farther up the Salt Lake Valley for their landing approach decent. I use the same equipment I use for my hiking navigation and logs. I use a handheld Garmin GPS to track the flight pattern and the best software for analyzing GPS tracks is TopoFusion Pro.
Cheers,
Shaan
That’s called RNP or “Required Navigation Performance”, a highly efficient and effective navigation method using GPS. Check it out at this link:
http://www.naverus.com
What’s really cool? They use AutoCAD Land Desktop for designing the flight paths and approachs!
Another cool thing to do is to get on Google Earth and use an add-in that can track a flight (if you know the flight nubmer) in almost real-time. It’s been several months since I’ve tinkered with it, but here’s a CNET link with some info.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9775754-2.html
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I presented to the Midwest CAD Technology EXPO as well as the Kansas City AutoCAD Users Group yesterday and had a great time.