Between the Lines is 18 Years Old on Saturday
On August 21, 2003, this blog started thanks to the encouragement of two Autodesk colleagues Bill Johnston and Eric Wright. I was one of…
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Throwback Thursday- What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been
Fun historical Autodesk fact. The singer/guitarist for the band Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia once visited an Autodesk office.
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Autodesk Turns 39
In Marin County, California, a small group of people got together January 30, 1982 and formed Autodesk. As founder John Walker stated “the game…
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Throwback Thursday TBT – Simply The Best
Who knew in the boxes of 38 years of Autodesk history that I have that we could connect Tina Turner and her hit song…
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Throwback Thursday – AutoCAD-80 version 1.2 Circa 1982
I may have found someone with the oldest AutoCAD release software outside of Autodesk. Of course internally we had early 1.0 alphas, betas, and…
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Throwback Thursday – Space Shuttle
AutoCAD 1.4 circa 1984/85 and the Space Shuttle drawing by Autodesk founder John Walker. This is one of the earliest known DWG sample files…
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Throwback Thursday – Mining Data from Old AutoCAD Floppies
If you read the word “Floppies” and scratched your head, you might be less than 30 years old and never seen what we had…
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Throwback Thursday – The Solar System Drawn to Scale in AutoCAD DWG – Scale is Everything
Take a trip to the Universe to 1:1 scale in AutoCAD.https://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2018/02/the-solar-system-drawn-to-scale-in-autocad-dwg-scale-accuracy-is-everything.html
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