Autodesk Discussion Groups are Back Up and with a New Look!

I mentioned last week (here) the planned outage of the public discussion groups for updates. Well the discussion groups are once again live and thriving with activity. I am sure many thousands of lurkers to the groups were going through…

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My Messy Office…

During the holidays I plan on cleaning my office. It has become a disorganized clutter of geeky books, gadgets, and computers. Of course it all makes sense and order to me but heck when I have visitors it could scare…

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My 100th Entry into this Blog.

I have hit a minor milestone in this blogging experience with my one hundredth entry and thousands visiting daily to this blog and my Autodesk University 2003 Photo Album. I am enjoying how easy and quick the experience is. It…

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Great Source of AutoCAD Tutorials

Just browsing through my web browser favorite links on a Sunday and I found this gem of a resource. http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/default.asp?af=3&re=1&se=AutoCAD There are many other application tutorials on this site as well. Some of the AutoCAD tutorials listed in the site…

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New Security and Virus Protection Effort in the Upcoming Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

The next Service Pack for Microsoft Windows will be released in the near future. The aim of this Service Pack is to increase the security of the Operating System so that users without a firewall or anti virus are less…

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Be Safe Out there..

After a recent event, it came to my attention that some computer users still do not understand the simple concept of wireless or virus security. When you attend an event, hotel, coffee shop, airport, or your home and connect your…

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Changes Coming to the Autodesk Public Discussion Groups

The best Autodesk product resource, the public discussion groups are getting a major makeover this weekend. There will be a weekend outage while this transition takes place. I know many active posters and lurkers will go through withdrawls while the…

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Lee Ambrosius Created a No-Explode Routine Requested During AU 2003

AU 2003 Photo Link – Lee at AU 2003 During the Industry Session for General Design with the AutoCAD Team panel, a question was asked about the ability to filter out objects like Mtext, Blocks and Dimensions so they can’t…

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Blog Visitors Are Increasing

Greetings to all who have spread the blog URL around. I just noticed today that the following CAD industry news sites have spread the blog in the past 24 hours: cadalyst.com caddigest.com cadwire.net tenlinks.com If you have feedback or suggestions…

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Autodesk University 2003 Class Materials Are Being Posted

A lot of hard work went into these class handouts. Make sure if you use the material in your company to give full credit to the author/instructors and AU. Seeing just the class materials is a far cry from…

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