Shaan Hurley

Shaan Hurley

Great New DWF Article from Lynn Allen

Why You Need DWF Click Here for this great article by fellow desker and friend Lynn Allen. Cheers, -Shaan

Great New Article on the new Tool Palette Extension

AutoCAD: The Tool Palettes Extension – Extending the AutoCAD Interface Nice tutorial on the new extension by well known AutoCAD author of the AutoCAD Bible Ellen Finkelstein and she is also a great cookie baker . Click Here Cheers, -Shaan

DWF-it!

I have received some great feedback from Autodesk customers after they tried the DWF format at my recommendation. I thought I might share the raw comments used with their permission of course and perhaps you might give it a try…

AutoCAD 2004 Tool Palette Extension

A few customers have emailed me about some confusion with hatches and this new Tool Palette extension. If your AutoCAD system variable Pickstyle variable is set to 2 or 3, along with the associative hatch or gradient it selects its…

Shaan’s Travel Tip

I was on the road last week in Seattle visiting customers and also attending some meetings at the Microsoft Redmond campus. I stumbled across a great travel tip after forgetting to pack my toothpaste in my bag. I found that…

New AutoCAD 2004 Extension Releasing Today October 16th 2004

You are hearing it here first. There will be a new AutoCAD extension releasing today for AutoCAD 2004 and AutoCAD 2004 based products. The press release will be later today as well as the download available on the Autodesk subscription…

DWFWriter 2 Beta Now Available

In the image below I printed DWF files from a non Autodesk CAD application as well as even the almost 10 year old AutoCAD R12 for Windows. I have printed from many non Autodesk applications. The DWF format is a…

Do you have some suggestions for AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT

I am on the team that develops AutoCAD, the viewers and many other products. If you have a suggestion for us to look into, please email me. Email me at shaan@autodesk.com In the subject line of the email, please mention…

Beta 1 Enrollment Announcement for the new DWFWriter Windows System Driver

Autodesk DWFwriter 2 Beta Print to DWF directly from your design applications. Enrollment is currently underway for the Autodesk DWFwriter Beta program. This Windows system printer driver allows you to publish DWF files from a variety of design applications, including…

New AutoCAD 2004 Extension Coming

The new AutoCAD Extension is named “The Tool Palettes Extension”. It is a real productivity enhancing extension. It should be available by download to Autodesk subscription customers in a very short time. You will be able to include multiple new…