AU
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I've been a little slow getting my AU material together, this year (I've been called onto more pressing issues fairly consistently over the last weeks/months), so I'm very much up against Monday's content submission deadline. I'll certainly have the handouts ready, but the presentations will have to come later. As I've done in the past, I like to post my handouts here for people to take a look at (and provide feedback on in time for me to correct prior to the event ;-). Today's post is the handout for my AutoCAD user-focused class, "AC427-4 - Point Clouds on a…
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Many of you will have seen previous incarnations of this tool, during its development. It's a little more complex than most of our other monthly plugins – mostly as it depends on a couple of external components – but the functionality should hopefully be simple enough to understand and use. I won't go into great details here, but if you're using AutoCAD 2011, give it a try by downloading the ZIP from the Autodesk Labs Plugin of the Month site and executing the contained installer package. From there you should be able to run the BROWSEPS command inside AutoCAD to…
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The first 5 people to email me with the topic of the virtual session I'm presenting at this year's AUv event will receive a free Premier Pass for AU Virtual 2010 worth $139. To even the playing field somewhat and to emphasize the global nature of the AUv event, each winner will have to come from a different country. Please make sure it's obvious which country you're from when you email me. I'll update this post as the passes get allocated (indicating which countries the winners were from). I expect them to go quickly, so apologies in advance to all…
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As part of my preparation for a class I'm presenting at AU, Point Clouds on a Shoestring (AC427-4), I bought myself a new toy a couple of weeks ago: an Eye-Fi Pro X2 memory card. This very cool little device is much more than a high capacity SD card: it has an in-built Wi-Fi chip that allows it to connect to your local Wi-Fi infrastructure (whether via a wireless router, access points or an ad-hoc connection to your PC) and will automatically upload the images you're taking to a folder on your system and (optionally) to your favourite photo sharing…
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The class catalogs for AU 2010 – for both the physical and virtual classes – have now been posted to the AU website: I have a few AU classes scheduled – thanks to any of you who took the time to vote for them. My first class is virtual… Getting to Know the AutoCAD® Plugins of the Month (CP212-1V) Tuesday November 30th, 6:00-7:00 am PST Tuesday November 30th, 11:00 am-12:00 pm PST The Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) team has been publishing "Plug-ins of the Month" on Autodesk Labs for over a year. Each of these plug-ins extends an Autodesk® product…
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I've submitted three sessions for this year's Autodesk University: Getting to know AutoCAD's Plugins of the Month (a 60-minute virtual class, session ID 1681) Synopsis: The Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) team has been publishing "Plugins of the Month" on Autodesk Labs for over a year. Each of these plugins extends an Autodesk products in a useful or interesting way, and is provided with full source code! Attend this session for an introduction to the various AutoCAD plugins that have been published (with a brief mention of those published for other products). We will take a detailed look at the source…
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It seems to come around sooner each year, but then that's probably just me getting older, as everything else also seems to. 🙂 The call for proposals for AU 2010 is now open, and will remain so until May 14. The event itself will be held from November 30 to December 2 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Over on the AU BLAUG, it explains that we're looking for: Fresh topics and content More advanced courses Business management solutions Product specifics Tips & Tricks Customization and programming topics are – as ever – extremely popular sessions at AU, and…
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Joyeux Noël, 圣诞快乐, Frohe Weihnachten, عيد ميلاد مجيد, Nollaig Shona, メリークリスマス, Nadolig Llawen, 즐거운 성탄절 되세요, Buon Natale, क्रिसमस की शुभकामनाएँ, Feliz Natal, חנוכה שמח, Feliz Navidad, สุขสันต์ วัน คริสต์มาส, Vrolijk Kerstfeest, С Рождеством!!! I've now officially started my Christmas holiday, which means my blogging/tweeting will be almost non-existent until the second week of January. Unless I get bored, of course, but then as I've just managed to get our digital cable box replaced, granting much-missed access to British TV stations (BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, ITV2, Film 4), I suspect you won't hear all that much from me over the festive…
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Now that the dust has settled on my extended AU trip, here's a quick post covering some of the fun. First, a nice little video on the AU experience, this year: Secondly, here's how the keynote was experienced by people attending via AU Virtual: Thirdly, here's a snapshot I took during the second broadcast of my F# session for which I was running the Q&A (this one was at 6:00am local time, so I was OK with not being inundated with questions, all things considered). And finally… as mentioned previously, the online aspect of this year's event was one I…
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I've arrived at the end of my AU+East Asia tour, having spent the last 2 weeks in Las Vegas, San Francisco, Tokyo, Seoul and now Beijing. My blog is blocked by the Great Firewall of China, so while I can post this content via Typepad I can't see the results (although I'm told I should be able to VPN into our Singapore office to bypass this restriction – I'll give that a try, later on). Later today (and today is currently Friday December 11th in China 🙂 you should be able to gain access to the sessions I delivered at…