Tonight my local user group, Richmond AutoCAD Manifest (RAM), held their end-of-year dinner. 2007 was certainly a great year for us, as we did manage to grow our membership. Adding to an already incredible year, our 2007 RAM President, John…
It’s no secret, the modern-day processor race isn’t measured so much on how fast the processor is, but rather how many cores you have. First we saw the Core Duo (2 cores) processors, then the Core 2 Duo’s (4 cores). …
No sleep til’ Christmas! Last week it was Autodesk University in Las Vegas, this week marks the start of our Layer Standard implementation. Getting to this milestone is incredibly exciting, as this implementation is the culmination of about a year…
Mine included, it seems that many of the AU Unplugged sessions had a lighter turn out than expected. Even with the limited attendance, I must say my session provided a great platform for some discussion I am certainly bringing home…
I actually arrived in Vegas yesterday (Monday). Thankfully most of the post Thanksgiving travelers had passed, but Monday was still a pretty busy day to travel. Naturally the rain throughout the eastern US didn’t help matters. All things considered I…
By this time next week I will be among many of you, enjoying the Autodesk University 2007 in fabulous Las Vegas, NV. Being both the 25th anniversary of Autodesk, and the 15th anniversary of Autodesk University, it’s sure to be…
Those who read my last post, “Inserting DWG’s into MS Word or PowerPoint” may recall the mention I made about PDF Creator. Since it seems many of you were interested in that tool, I thought it may be appropriate to…
Just this evening I received an e-mail from Autodesk letting me know my AU Unplugged session "The Training Trinity: Fundamentals of a Successful Training Program" was accepted. Thank you to everyone who voted for my session. If you’re attending AU,…
A special thanks to Lynn Allen for her presentation to the Richmond AutoCAD Manifest (RAM) Thursday night. After Lynn’s presentation I along with some other RAM members had a chance to chat with her. Numerous topics came up during the course…
We’re sitting at a month out from AU 2007. Being anniversary years for both Autodesk as a company and AU as a conference, it’s sure to be a great event. I wrote about a month ago about something new Autodesk…
More often than not, when the GROUP command comes up in discussion it’s because a user can’t figure out why their selection sets are going crazy. Hence the reason I titled this post “GROUP Therapy”. But in all seriousness, GROUPS…
Books, magazines, and even blogs about CAD Management oftentimes scare me. They scare me in the message they broadcast, even if not intentional, that after reading such and such title I can create a CAD Standard in 30 days and…
