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That was the answer to :
Is Sydney > LAX an A380 flight?
It’s not that I dislike the 747, although some are dated if not refitted, as have flown many kilometres in them. It's just that I’ve seen the big Airbus plenty of times and would like to experience an A380 from the inside!
I have been working with AutoCAD Architecture AEC Spaces for years. They are a polyline’like object with a boundary (which since 2004 could be edited with grips Polylines got in 2011) and hatch fill. Spaces have an Osnap’able centre which is rather useful for placing tags (the default location if you just hit enter when tagging), mirroring or centre aligning content in a space. Even irregular spaces have this “centre” based on their bounding box extents.
Today I was editing a closed Polyline and tried to manipulate it with a centre OSNAP. Of course it doesn’t have one but, given it’s so useful, I wonder why not?
Don’t know how I missed it but a tweet, soon followed by a fellow BIM geek’s email, led me to Phil Bernstein’s relatively new Blog.
It’s great to see him jump into the world of blogging. I have seen Phil speak at Autodesk University and (long before that) had some quite “vigorous” discussion via Discussion Group & Email around the Revit acquisition.
I first met him at an Autodesk BIM event in Korea, 2006. A year later our paths crossed at an Autodesk University function (Revit or APAC Mixer?) and he said:
“I read your post about Korea today, in the car on the way to see a customer (in Vegas) after they mentioned it…”
He hesitated slightly and I wondered where the sentence was going but was happy, truthfully relieved, when the last few words emerged;
“… and it was good!”
Perhaps at Autodesk University 2010 I’ll be able to critique his blog!
Phil Bernstein's Blog - philbernstein.typepad.com
It’s a sobering moment when a member of the baby boomer generation like myself crosses an imaginary boundary and joins the social networking set… (Quote from "Introduction Post")
Robert Scoble’s measure is the “Folks with more than 100 apps” and I have 116. At a guess I reckon maybe 20% of those get frequent use with Tweetdeck, Typepad, LinkedIn and Facebook being the most used. I think TomTom is my most used non-web application. Strange thing is the least used mode for my iPhone is as a phone!
@Scobleizer Robert Scoble
So far I've found 35 superusers and started a Twitter list: http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/super-mobile-users (Folks with more than 100 apps)
The Autodesk University Virtual (AUv) portal is live and accepting registrations. The offering and interface is based on the physical event with webcast keynotes & sessions, virtual lounges to meet in and virtual Exhibit Booths. Once you sign in there is a welcoming video tour from your AUv Event host. Someone who looks very similar to Donnie – The CAD Geek – Gladfelter.*
Autodesk University Virtual - au.autodesk.com
Learning, Networking, Exhibits—Live and Online November 30–December 1, 2010. Registration Is Open!
Can't make it to the AU 2010 Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas this year? Autodesk University has you covered—from anywhere in the world. Autodesk University Virtual 2010 will broadcast high-quality, relevant, expert-led, live streaming and on-demand classes and keynotes right to your desktop. These classes are recorded especially for this event, and AU Virtual instructors are drawn from the same pool of high-calibre professionals who present at Autodesk University 2010 in Las Vegas.
* That last bit will probably only make sense to, maybe amuse, a few CAD bloggers who were in San Francisco February 2009 and some guy called Travis who was attending another conference. It really is Donnie :)
Help a fellow CAD Geek get their Autodesk University fix by simply watching & voting for a video. Three lucky videographers will get an AU Pass based on the votes their videos receive.
I know how good that feels, thanks to that paper plane YouTube back in 2006, so get voting and make someone’s day, actually 3 days!
Vote for Your Favorite AU 2010 YouTube Video
From now until October 22, 2010, log into the AU Virtual YouTube Lounge, and vote for your favourite videos. You can vote for as many as you like, but only once for each video. On October 23, 2010, the three (3) those videos that have received the most "Like" responses will be declared the winners. Each winning contestant will receive an AU 2010 Las Vegas 3-Day, All-Inclusive Pass.
If you’ve got a wide screen monitor the Windows 7 taskbar works nicely in a vertical format.
Gives back a bit of that precious vertical space.
* No, that’s not my car…
** The Snagit 1, 2 shows how
I am a bit late posting this as missed the first mail out.
Format for the evening will be;
5:30pm - Drinks, nibbles and chit chat session.
6:00pm - Welcome and introductions
6:05pm - Toposurfaces made easy : A demonstration on creating toposurfaces from imported surveyors cad drawings by Matthew Argyle
6:20pm - If Or And Not but... : Matthew Pettengell will take us through those troublesome yet powerful time savers - Conditional Statements - being the If's, Or's, And's, Not's, but not But's..!
6:40pm - More Room for Schedules : Matt will also walk us through some other uses of schedules like Room schedules, and Material takeoffs that can help us organise & maintain our projects, saving you more time..!
7:20pm - Discussion on next month’s topics
7:30pm - Close of meeting
10 NZIA CPD points available for Registered Architect's. Please bring a $2 donation towards refreshments.
Autodesk Butterfly took off, literally, with its formal release as AutoCAD WS and AutoCAD WS Mobile over the past few days. Both were supposed to be announced on September 30th (US time) but social media changed that as Shaan explains in his post (extracts below):
AutoCAD WS Launch was BIG and a Special Message from Autodesk SVP Amar Hanspal - Between The Lines ~ AutoCAD Blog
“While we expected the new products and services to be popular, we did not expect the massive amount of new accounts and data. On September 29th the AutoCAD WS Mobile app appeared in the Apple iTunes App Store (http://www.itunes.com/app/autocad-ws) for FREE. We were not planning to announce it with a press release until September 30th at 8am EST. This provided us a day buffer for testing and to make sure the apps were approved and in the app store. This is where the awesome power and effect of social media comes in.
Someone noticed the new AutoCAD WS Mobile for Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, and Apple iPod Touch as well as the AutoCAD WS web page content and mentioned it on Twitter, and it spread like wildfire across social media across the world.” [cont…]
The result was amazing:
“Within the first 24 hours of availability of the AutoCAD WS mobile application on the iTunes App Store, it was been downloaded over 125,000 times. Over 80,000 new user accounts were created and more than 35,000 drawings have been uploaded.” [cont…]
AutoCAD WS is a browser based dwg editor & AutoCAD WS Mobile currently supports Apple iOS devices. The AutoCAD WS service provides cloud storage for your drawing files. They require an account but the AutoCAD WS applications & service are free to use.
Now anyone can access, view, mark-up and edit dwg files without requiring AutoCAD, or even a PC. It’s not a complete CAD solution but is sufficient for collaboration, editing and review of drawing files. There are share & timeline tools to enable & track revisions as AutoCAD WS keeps a previous versions history. The video below shows it in action:
If you tested Autodesk Labs Butterfly use the same account sign-on for AutoCAD WS and all your Butterfly data will be available. If you are a new user and have an Autodesk Single Sign On Account (i.e. Subscription, Discussion Group or Community) you can use that with AutoCAD WS.
AutoCAD WS Mobile is a free app which allows you to edit, mark-up & modify dwg files on the iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch. I’ve had a quick play with AutoCAD WS on my iPhone 3GS (iOS4) and found it amazingly responsive. Yesterday the service seemed a bit slow but has been better today. After seeing Shaan’s post that’s understandable!
It has colour & greyscale view option, tools for sharing (transfer encrypted for security). You upload files via the AutoCAD WS web site or from within AutoCAD using the new AutoCAD WS Plug-in.
Anybody can use & upload to AutoCAD WS via a web browser based UI. It has a reasonable selection of drawing & editing tools presented in a ribbon/tab UI. Although similar to AutoCAD it has a different feel with the tools & input aimed at non-CAD users (no command line!). It supports xrefs (automatically uploaded with their parent file) and support files like CTB/STB, fonts to ensure your drawing looks correct. AutoCAD (& vertical) Subscription users can access a plug-in to integrate AutoCAD WS access/upload into their application.
I’ll be covering AutoCAD WS in future posts but it builds on the capabilities seen in the Butterfly Preview.
AutoCAD WS & WS Mobile are running fine on my hardware. I have accessed & edited drawings on my iPhone 3GS (iOS4) and Windows 7 64 desktop which is running IE9 Beta, current Chrome & Flash 10. I tried Butterfly on a Mac with no problems and presume WS will match that.
The only impact I have found so far is a need delete one autocorrect entry in my ActiveWords database (right). When I typed AutoCAD WS it instantly changed to AutoCAD WAS! :)
Get AutoCAD WS, demos & related plug ins at AutoCAD WS - www.autocadws.com
Get AutoCAD WS Mobile from the Apple iTunes Store http://www.itunes.com/app/autocad-ws for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch.
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