RobiNZ CAD Blog

Unreal Election

Off topic but might be of interest. New Zealand's closest election in years had a bizarre sideshow as a stolen light aircraft buzzed Auckland City…. RobiNZ Personal Blog: NZ Election not boring After a long campaign 2,052,813 votes were counted and there is no result... Read more →

BazzaCAD CLog

Welcome to another AutoCAD blog – in fact it’s a CLog – Barry Ralph’s BazzaCAD! 10/10 for the innovative use of a very familiar interface. BazzaCAD CLog What's a CLog? It's a Cad Log via In the Dynamic Interface Read more →

Tell him...

Have a read of Earl’s post and the page it links to, what do you think? Tell Me... Read more →

Google Blog Search

Google Blog Search is new and does what you’d expect – a Google Search of blogs. It’s a Beta but seems to work OK, hey it even finds mine! UPDATE: I just noticed at the bottom of the page you can Subscribe to Atom and RSS results for a search – Nice! http://blogsearch.google.com/ Read more →

Welcome, wherever you are!

I use www.sitemeter.com to track visitor statistics. It’s excellent and offers both free and upgrade accounts. The free account is comprehensive with the upgrade account offering more history and reporting options. Sitemeter recently added a visitor map and county statistics to the reports they provide. The map below shows the last 100 visitors and the country mix is of all visitors (click on the thumbnails below for more detail). It’s interesting to see people visiting from all over the globe. Welcome to you all, wherever you are! Read more →

Seeing the plot with AutoCAD 2006

It won’t help you figure out “who done it” in the thriller you’re reading but I found an AutoCAD variable that will let you see the plot. If you have a plotter with a small on-board display, like our HP 800, AutoCAD’s recently acquired habit of sending the full path of the plot file to the printer can be rather frustrating. You see an endless list of truncated paths but can’t see the filename. AutoCAD 2006 “fullplotpath” variable toggles between sending the full path or just the filename. This makes reprints from the plotter and cancelling other peoples plots, so... Read more →

MindManager Viewer Beta Update

Mindjet have updated the MindManager Viewer Beta. If you loaded it earlier this week: Remove the existing version using Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs Visit the install page to install the update. Read more →

Hey Boeing, where's the new AU plane?

I was supposed to be flying to AU via San Francisco in a shiny new Boeing 777. It would have been one of the first operated by Air New Zealand but looks like they might still be using the (very) old 747’s… Stuff.co.nz: Air NZ could get millions for delay “Air New Zealand could be in line for millions of dollars in compensation from aircraft manufacturer Boeing because of delays in the delivery of its new flagship 777 airliner fleet…” “The aircraft was to start flying from Auckland to San Francisco next month when the present three-times-a-week service goes to... Read more →

Lynn Allen's Kiwi AutoCAD Tip

Autodesk “Evangelist” Lynn Allen is in New Zealand and blogging. She presented some Autodesk Inventor workshops last week but unfortunately I didn’t get to them. Inventor isn’t isn’t part of our CAD application mix but I have always had a personal interest in mechanical CAD software. My Father is an Engineer and has some very cool CNC machinery. His mechanical talent didn’t transfer to me, ham-fisted at best, but Inventor + CNC could be a different story! I have booked into Lynn's Autodesk Vault session at Autodesk University. Hope you found that Kiwi in Christchurch, see you at AU! Lynn... Read more →

My PC Application Map revisited

A few days ago I blogged about mapping the applications installed on my PC, using MindManager & Belarc Advisor, prior to a rebuild. Thanks to the recently released MindManager Viewer I can share the map in it’s original format rather than the static image in the original post. The map embedded in this post requires the free I.E. Mindjet MindManager Viewer Control available from http://www.mindjet.com/viewer_blog/ With the viewer installed you can pan/zoom the map and expand/collapse the topics by clicking on the + – by the topic. Click/hover on the Notes icon to see my comments on the application or... Read more →