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Trick or Treat?

Its Halloween already in New Zealand (we lead the world). Will a well known Kiwi Revit Wiz* be out Trick or Treating in his favourite leather Evel Knievel outfit? * No, not me Read more →

IFC, phooey?

It's been a long time since I seriously looked at Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) as a way of sharing design information. Since then both the standard itself and applications that use it have been through several generations of development. From the IFC Wiki; The IFC represents a data model structure for sharing construction and facility management data across various applications used in the building domain. The IFC data model is an object-oriented data model based on class definitions representing the things (elements, processes, shapes, etc.) that are used by software applications during a construction or facility management project. The IFC... Read more →

The Autodesk University Buddy opportunity

Today Autodesk announced a special opportunity (see the AU Blog post below) for those still considering attending Autodesk University. I don't know if the state of the economy has impacted registratio... Read more →

Autodesk Garbage Groups now hinder discussion

I've posted about it before but tonight after trying to research something and reading perfectly rational intelligent posts reduced to unreadable "Blah" by the "improved" new Autodesk Discussion Group... Read more →

The BEEB find "The Cloud" in a bean field?

Microsoft announced the Windows Azure , their cloud services platform, today. Do you wonder where "The Cloud" actually is? The BBC found some of those servers in a bean field near Quincy, Washington S... Read more →

CAD advertised on the radio, is this a first for New Zealand?

I've never heard a New Zealand Autodesk reseller use radio advertising until today. Radio Live had a CADPro advert for AutoCAD Inventor. It got my attention but I wonder what their audience, it's a ta... Read more →

Can a "." require 1GB of memory? - AutoCAD Architecture 2008

The Problem: Open a old project with AutoCAD Architecture 2008 (ACA). Create a new view, attempt to place it on a sheet, Crash! The Investigation: My usual approach with problem files is to t... Read more →

Interesting blogs I discovered recently...

Although not new, they are to me; The CADsmart Blog - The CAD BIM Skills software company on CAD, BIM. Rockmaster's CAD Resources - Jason Foster - What it says, and more! [n]Codon - Bojana... Read more →

TypePad is 5, but this blog isn't!

TypePad , my blog host, is celebrating it's 5th birthday however this blog is a bit younger. When I wrote that first post back in March 2004 I didn't know where it would lead. I certainly didn't think... Read more →

Caution, work in progress

I t's n o t yo u r e y e s. The line leading, spacing, on the website has gone wonky. Working on a fix. UPDATE 2008-10-23: The wonderful folks at TypePad Support fixed it! Read more →