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The Mistress talks money, actually it's the AUGI Salary Survey 2007!

Melanie has collected, collated, massaged and presented all the AUGI Salary Survey data. This time, in addition to the usual comprehensive article, she has also done a podcast! Read it and weep, or... Read more →

Category Management for new 2008 names

I’ve revised some of my blog categories (indexes) to reflect some recent name changes: Architectural Desktop changes to AutoCAD Architecture Revit changes to Revit Architecture Building Sy... Read more →

CAD/Software System Documentation with MindManager and Camtasia

Regular visitors may have noticed that I mention using MindManager and Camtasia for documentation . It’s difficult to share real content here without extensive editing to remove confidential informati... Read more →

Notice of Auckland AutoCAD User Group Meeting

The next Auckland AutoCAD User Group Meeting is: Topic: AGM Date; Wednesday 22-11-2006 Venue: Lone Star Newmarket, 8 Kent St, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand Time; Assemble at 18:30, M... Read more →

Auckland AutoCAD User Group Meeting - 13th September 2006

Demonstration discussion of MindManager, Blogs, RSS Subscription and ActiveWords UI automation to assist with CAD related work, support, documentation and training. 18:30, 13th September 2006, Nort... Read more →

Auckland AutoCAD User Group Meeting 24-07-2006 - AutoCAD 2007

Just got home from an Auckland Autodesk User Group meeting, Omar Awny (Senior Applications Sales Engineer Application Engineer Manager from Autodesk Australia) gave a great presentation of all the nice things to be found in AutoCAD 2007 and DWF Design Review. He also mentioned a few websites that may be of use to AAUG members and readers here; http://labs.autodesk.com/ – Test versions of Freewheel DWF Viewing (see my post), Google Earth AutoCAD Plug-in (see my post), Dgn import and more… http://www.autodesk.com/dwgtrueview – Free AutoCAD dwg viewer http://www.autodesk.com/dwgtrueconvert – Free Convertor for AutoCAD files (between versions) http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/ – Shaans AutoCAD blog... Read more →

Notice of Auckland AutoCAD User Group Meeting - 24-07-2006 - "AutoCAD 2007 - A Technical Review"

The Auckland AutoCAD User Group have a meeting about AutoCAD 2007 next week if you are able to attend; Auckland AutoCAD User Group - www.aaug.org.nz Please be aware of the upcoming EVENT. The AAUG is pleased to announce that they will be hosting Omar Awny (Senior Applications Sales Engineer) from Autodesk Australia. You may remember him from the Autodesk Quiz Night earlier this year. Where: Salesoft CAD Solutions, 115 Grafton Road, just opposite the Hospital entrance on Grafton Road. When: Monday 24th July 2006. 6:00 pm for 6:30pm start. Topic: "AutoCAD 2007 - A Technical Review" This will be a... Read more →

AutoCAD 2007 Xref Manager Palette Vs Dialog

I went to an Auckland AutoCAD User Group meeting tonight and after an excellent demo of Revit Building and Revit Structure, thanks Rich & Damien, the discussion turned to the subject of the next meeting – AutoCAD 2007. The question was asked: “How do you re-path xrefs in the new 2007 External References Manager (right), it’s not that obvious how you save the path, and can you revert to the old dialogs if preferred?” I remembered reading the answer to the old dialog but couldn’t recall so here it is… But first, why a new palette and how do you... Read more →

Auckland AutoCAD User Group Meeting 21-06-05 - BIM with Revit

I’m a bit late with this post regarding the Auckland AutoCAD User Group Meeting 21-06-05. Rich Sales (Salesoft) gave a presentation on Building Information Model technology based on Revit. The proposed change to Auckland Autodesk User Group is needed! As usual Rich gave a great demo of Revit which he has running beautifully. Thanks Rich! While everyone was impressed with Revit some of the the resulting conversation tended towards the practicality of using BIM in the real world. From minor aspects like where do you track revisions (on the drawing sheet? in the model?) to issues of liability, ownership, etc... Read more →

Autodesk NZ Design Master Quiz a great success

I just got home from the Autodesk 2006 Launch & Design Master Quiz. This was the official launch for all the “2006 Release Autodesk Products”. On arrival you could join informal industry focused demonstrations from the Industry Solution Dealers. These were held in separate rooms but were open so you could wander around sampling all the products/demo’s if desired. Then everyone then headed downstairs to register then into main auditorium for the “Design Master Quiz”. Due to a large turnout about 40 tables filled the room with a team of six or seven at each. Each table had a laptop... Read more →