While I know only a small portion of my readers are in or around the Richmond, VA area, but for those who are an exciting guest is coming to Richmond on Thursday, October 25th. Lynn Allen, world renowned Autodesk Technical…
While I was unable to get a blog post put together last week, I did manage to finish developing a course on Annotative Scaling for my firms internal training program. One nifty discovery I came across in developing the course…
Yesterday morning got out to a rather chaotic start for me. Within the first couple hours of the day I had 3 support requests in queue, all urgent, and for a mid-day submittal. Not to bore you with details, but…
It?s hard to believe that Autodesk University 2007 is less than two months away! If you haven?t already registered ? what are you waiting for? I did receive an e-mail just the other day from TenLinks stating that you can…
Virginia Tech has naturally received a lot of media attention since the terror of April 16, 2007. Tomorrow (Saturday) happens to be Homecoming for tech where they will play North Carolina. As Enter Sandman finishes playing, and the clock ticks…
In just the last few days alone I have received 5 support requests from my users about this issue. Seeing that I haven?t seen a lot written about it, I thought I would make a quick post about the Perpetual…
The September / October issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download. The cover story for this issue is “A First Good Impression”. Impression is a brand new program that Autodesk released this year which allows you to give your…
Script files seem to be one of the many forgotten frontiers of AutoCAD. “Back in the day” I knew of many CAD users who couldn’t go a day without running a script file or two. These days – not so…
Last night I was performing some routine site maintenance. After finishing things up I went around verifying everything still functioned as expected, and well came across one item that didn’t. The “Contact Me” e-mail form apparently hasn’t been sending e-mails…
In my last post titled “Importing & Elevating GIS Contours – Part 1” I discussed a way for us to import GIS Data into an AutoCAD Drawing as AutoCAD entities. While I spoke in context of using it to import…
Perhaps one of the most common GIS related tasks I am asked to help with is how to import and then elevate GIS contour data. Oftentimes this data is provided as an ESRI Shapefile, and when imported has no elevation. …
For those who don’t know, registration for this year’s Autodesk University is in full swing. AU 2007 is definitely shaping up to be one of the biggest ever with a projection for nearly 10,000 attendees. Wow ? that’s a…
