2015
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A few weeks ago a colleague – and keen mountain biker – from the Neuchatel office, Nicolas Barras, pointed me at a video created by one of his favourite local brands, SCOTT Sports, showing their goggle manufacturing process. Nicolas – a huge SCOTT fan – was curious about their use of design software. […]
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It's been a couple of years since I last reported on an Autodesk web property getting cosmetic surgery. The AKN team has just unveiled a revamped portal enabling people to create, share and remix knowledge, whether of their industry or their usage of a particular product. Here's my AKN profile, showing that I've contributed some […]
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With the clock ticking before next week's AU 2015, here's the second of my class handouts (here's a link to the first). For those of you lucky enough to be heading to this year's event, see you in Vegas! Introduction During the course of this session, we're going to look at the steps required […]
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The first snow of the season came, over the weekend, so it seemed a good time to write a post that was a little off-piste. 🙂 It's a topic that I don't recall ever having broached: using PowerShell to mess with files and folders on your hard drive or a network server. This is my […]
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A link to a video was posted to Autodesk's intranet, a few days ago. It's about Mark Webb, a friend and colleague based in our Manchester (New Hampshire) office. Mark and I started out at more or less the same time at Autodesk in the UK, in the charming town of Guildford. At least it's […]
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I've been heads-down wrapping up my AU content, so I thought I'd publish at least some of it here. Here's the handout for my "AU kick-off" class which is at 8am on the first day of the conference – the morning after the ADN party – so despite the fact the class is currently full, […]
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The Autodesk Knowledge Network team has created a new, web-based tool for diagramming Autodesk product workflows called Project PRAXIS. This free tool is currently in pre-release and allows you to document and share product workflows within your organisation or with your customers. I took it for a spin and quickly documented the Eat, Sleep, Code, […]
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There's a lot of developer-oriented fun coming up over the coming weeks/months. The ADN team's DevDays tour kicks off in Beijing in a few days, with the largest single event taking place – as usual – the day before AU 2015 in Las Vegas. I'll be there for that, of course, but I've also booked […]
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After showing how to automatically attach xrefs at the origin inside AutoCAD, and then redoing the approach to take care of different unit systems, I then had the request from a couple of places to look at making the xrefs overlays and adjusting their paths to be relative rather than absolute. Looking around, I found […]
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This is actually a redo of last week's post, just with a different title: while the approach shown worked well when creating external references to drawings using the same units, when bringing in (for instance) metric xrefs into an imperial master drawing the scale was all messed up. Thanks to Hans Lammerts for reporting the […]