Comments on: RSS Feed Reader Inside AutoCAD http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/ By: Donnie Gladfelter Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: urbanmike http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-111 urbanmike Fri, 11 May 2007 18:43:26 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-111 @G - I agree with all you said, not sure if you are saying that intersection design is "bells and whistles" or refering to something else?? Lets just say that 12D Design Software (see 12d.com) does all this and more and even power users find it hard to crash, (unlike Civil3D)! Head to my website, send me an email on the contact form if you'd like more info. @G – I agree with all you said, not sure if you are saying that intersection design is “bells and whistles” or refering to something else??

Lets just say that 12D Design Software (see 12d.com) does all this and more and even power users find it hard to crash, (unlike Civil3D)!

Head to my website, send me an email on the contact form if you’d like more info.

]]> By: urbanmike http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-3633 urbanmike Fri, 11 May 2007 18:43:00 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-3633 @G - I agree with all you said, not sure if you are saying that intersection design is "bells and whistles" or refering to something else?? Lets just say that 12D Design Software (see 12d.com) does all this and more and even power users find it hard to crash, (unlike Civil3D)! Head to my website, send me an email on the contact form if you'd like more info. @G – I agree with all you said, not sure if you are saying that intersection design is “bells and whistles” or refering to something else??

Lets just say that 12D Design Software (see 12d.com) does all this and more and even power users find it hard to crash, (unlike Civil3D)!

Head to my website, send me an email on the contact form if you’d like more info.

]]> By: G Ross http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-107 G Ross Thu, 10 May 2007 18:38:57 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-107 Autodesk should ignore bell and whistle inovation untill it corrects existing problems. We are LDT users. A serious flaw exists in both 2007 and 2008. In view/edit sections, after setting templates and applying transition lines, ditch profiles, etc, processing sections will, unknown to the user, re-apply that last assigned template from it’s start to the end of the alignment. It may take days to correct this damage. A nifty infocenter interface to a shoddy help file is an insult. Our next upgrade may be Bentley. Autodesk should ignore bell and whistle inovation untill it corrects existing problems.

We are LDT users. A serious flaw exists in both 2007 and 2008. In view/edit sections, after setting templates and applying transition lines, ditch profiles, etc, processing sections will, unknown to the user, re-apply that last assigned template from it’s start to the end of the alignment.

It may take days to correct this damage. A nifty infocenter interface to a shoddy help file is an insult.

Our next upgrade may be Bentley.

]]> By: G Ross http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-3632 G Ross Thu, 10 May 2007 18:38:00 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-3632 Autodesk should ignore bell and whistle inovation untill it corrects existing problems. We are LDT users. A serious flaw exists in both 2007 and 2008. In view/edit sections, after setting templates and applying transition lines, ditch profiles, etc, processing sections will, unknown to the user, re-apply that last assigned template from it’s start to the end of the alignment. It may take days to correct this damage. A nifty infocenter interface to a shoddy help file is an insult. Our next upgrade may be Bentley. Autodesk should ignore bell and whistle inovation untill it corrects existing problems.

We are LDT users. A serious flaw exists in both 2007 and 2008. In view/edit sections, after setting templates and applying transition lines, ditch profiles, etc, processing sections will, unknown to the user, re-apply that last assigned template from it’s start to the end of the alignment.

It may take days to correct this damage. A nifty infocenter interface to a shoddy help file is an insult.

Our next upgrade may be Bentley.

]]> By: urbanmike http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-95 urbanmike Wed, 02 May 2007 16:01:16 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-95 Thanks for your thoughts, I still think that AutoCAD 2004 is adequate for 90% of all the work we do that's just drafting. Unfortunately, we're mostly civil3D designing, now that's a buggy bit of software, and any upgrade (you would assume) would be welcome. 2007 was pretty much a full priced public beta, AutoCad needs to rebuild some trust in the industry instead of pumping out full priced upgrades, offer radical improvements on day to day design items. When you pay that much for road design software, you'd assume that it would actually help you design a road intersection, (not just the roads). Again, thanks for your thoughts. Thanks for your thoughts, I still think that AutoCAD 2004 is adequate for 90% of all the work we do that’s just drafting.

Unfortunately, we’re mostly civil3D designing, now that’s a buggy bit of software, and any upgrade (you would assume) would be welcome. 2007 was pretty much a full priced public beta, AutoCad needs to rebuild some trust in the industry instead of pumping out full priced upgrades, offer radical improvements on day to day design items.

When you pay that much for road design software, you’d assume that it would actually help you design a road intersection, (not just the roads).

Again, thanks for your thoughts.

]]> By: urbanmike http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 urbanmike Wed, 02 May 2007 16:01:00 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-3631 Thanks for your thoughts, I still think that AutoCAD 2004 is adequate for 90% of all the work we do that's just drafting. Unfortunately, we're mostly civil3D designing, now that's a buggy bit of software, and any upgrade (you would assume) would be welcome. 2007 was pretty much a full priced public beta, AutoCad needs to rebuild some trust in the industry instead of pumping out full priced upgrades, offer radical improvements on day to day design items. When you pay that much for road design software, you'd assume that it would actually help you design a road intersection, (not just the roads). Again, thanks for your thoughts. Thanks for your thoughts, I still think that AutoCAD 2004 is adequate for 90% of all the work we do that’s just drafting.

Unfortunately, we’re mostly civil3D designing, now that’s a buggy bit of software, and any upgrade (you would assume) would be welcome. 2007 was pretty much a full priced public beta, AutoCad needs to rebuild some trust in the industry instead of pumping out full priced upgrades, offer radical improvements on day to day design items.

When you pay that much for road design software, you’d assume that it would actually help you design a road intersection, (not just the roads).

Again, thanks for your thoughts.

]]> By: Donnie Gladfelter http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Donnie Gladfelter Wed, 02 May 2007 04:35:29 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-93 Urbanmike – As you noted the RSS feeds are more along the lines of simply another nifty addition to AutoCAD. Does it increase productivity? Not really. Are the RSS feeds worth upgrading to 08? Definitely not by their self. Personally I am more intrigued by things like Annotative Scaling and Multileaders. Those two tools alone make AutoCAD 2008 at least worth considering. If you just upgraded to AutoCAD 2007 it may be a hard sell (depending on company size and the many other variables). If you are on AutoCAD 2006 (as my firm is), then AutoCAD 2008 is nearly a no brainer. Urbanmike – As you noted the RSS feeds are more along the lines of simply another nifty addition to AutoCAD. Does it increase productivity? Not really. Are the RSS feeds worth upgrading to 08? Definitely not by their self.

Personally I am more intrigued by things like Annotative Scaling and Multileaders. Those two tools alone make AutoCAD 2008 at least worth considering. If you just upgraded to AutoCAD 2007 it may be a hard sell (depending on company size and the many other variables). If you are on AutoCAD 2006 (as my firm is), then AutoCAD 2008 is nearly a no brainer.

]]> By: Donnie Gladfelter http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-3630 Donnie Gladfelter Wed, 02 May 2007 04:35:00 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-3630 Urbanmike – As you noted the RSS feeds are more along the lines of simply another nifty addition to AutoCAD. Does it increase productivity? Not really. Are the RSS feeds worth upgrading to 08? Definitely not by their self. Personally I am more intrigued by things like Annotative Scaling and Multileaders. Those two tools alone make AutoCAD 2008 at least worth considering. If you just upgraded to AutoCAD 2007 it may be a hard sell (depending on company size and the many other variables). If you are on AutoCAD 2006 (as my firm is), then AutoCAD 2008 is nearly a no brainer. Urbanmike – As you noted the RSS feeds are more along the lines of simply another nifty addition to AutoCAD. Does it increase productivity? Not really. Are the RSS feeds worth upgrading to 08? Definitely not by their self.

Personally I am more intrigued by things like Annotative Scaling and Multileaders. Those two tools alone make AutoCAD 2008 at least worth considering. If you just upgraded to AutoCAD 2007 it may be a hard sell (depending on company size and the many other variables). If you are on AutoCAD 2006 (as my firm is), then AutoCAD 2008 is nearly a no brainer.

]]> By: urbanmike http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-92 urbanmike Wed, 02 May 2007 03:27:12 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-92 Seems easy enough, not sure it's the greatest use of RSS for overall productivity, but would be useful for subscribing to CAD clinics and tutorials. Is it worth the upgrade to 2008? I've got an office full of CAD users who are doing fine on 2006/7, why upgrade? Seems easy enough, not sure it’s the greatest use of RSS for overall productivity, but would be useful for subscribing to CAD clinics and tutorials.

Is it worth the upgrade to 2008? I’ve got an office full of CAD users who are doing fine on 2006/7, why upgrade?

]]> By: urbanmike http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/comment-page-1/#comment-3629 urbanmike Wed, 02 May 2007 03:27:00 +0000 http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/04/30/rss-feed-reader-inside-autocad/#comment-3629 Seems easy enough, not sure it's the greatest use of RSS for overall productivity, but would be useful for subscribing to CAD clinics and tutorials. Is it worth the upgrade to 2008? I've got an office full of CAD users who are doing fine on 2006/7, why upgrade? Seems easy enough, not sure it’s the greatest use of RSS for overall productivity, but would be useful for subscribing to CAD clinics and tutorials.

Is it worth the upgrade to 2008? I’ve got an office full of CAD users who are doing fine on 2006/7, why upgrade?

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