Category AutoCAD Products

Wednesday Open Mic

In eight years of blogging I have received several questions on AutoCAD on this blog in comments and tried to answer each one. There is not real formal method to ask a question that is not related to a specific topic of a specific blog post and some have posted their questions to random other post comments. It is for this reason I am experimenting with a Open Mic post for AutoCAD & Autodesk Labs related questions or perhaps just a general comment about this blog, me, my hair, you looking for a job, or the upcoming Autodesk University.

AutoCAD Users – Shape the Future Versions at Sneak Peek Events

The AutoCAD User Experience Team is hosting its annual AutoCAD Sneak Peek events in late September and early October. These are free half-day events held in a few different locations, and they’re a great way to get hands-on experience with in-progress features and give your suggestions and feedback directly to the team designing those features. This year the team is running two events that focus on different functionality.

January’s Plugin of the Month live on Autodesk Labs: DrawOrder By Layer for AutoCAD DOBYLAY

Kean Walmsley & Scott Sheppard announced a free plugin most working with layers in AutoCAD could really use and that is to DrawOrder By Layer.

To explain the plugin simply it places the layers in their top to bottom order based on their layer. This is perfect for easily setting what object to plot or display on top of other layers.

Download the plugin, install per readme on AutoCAD 2007 and later releases and based applications, 32/64bit, and use the command DOBYLAY.

AutoCAD for Mac is now available, Download Now

The real AutoCAD on the Apple Mac OSX platform is now shipping as of this morning October 15th, 2010. There is a plethora of new information and a 30 day full trial available for download available from http://www.autodesk.com/autocadformac.

Be prepared for several events where Autodesk and our partners will be showing AutoCAD for Mac. In the meantime please download the trial and give it a good workout.After a few years of development and millions of lines of code this first native AutoCAD for Mac is a giant leap forward in providing Autodesk customers the choice of platforms for their trusted AutoCAD and DWG files.