According to this press release, Autodesk has revoked the UAR (Unique Application Reseller) status of Carlson Software, because Carlson "ha[s] been determined not to meet the current Autodesk partnering needs." The partnership ends 02-20-08.

Carlson will continue to offer applications that run on AutoCAD and AutoCAD MAP, they just won't be able to sell you the AutoCAD license directly.

Carlson was able to renew their AutoCAD OEM engine agreement for their Survey and Takeoff applications, but not for Carlson Roads. According to Carlson, their AutoCAD OEM engine costs will be "significantly higher". Because Roads was dropped, Carlson will be pursuing a different CAD engine for this application. Does this mean Survey and Takeoff will be migrated to this other, yet unnamed CAD engine? We'll have to wait and see.

Labels: Autodesk, Carlson

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PermaLink       Posted 1/30/2008 06:36:00 AM      Comments (0)

If you are looking for some free Autolisp resources including tutorials and sample code, take a look in the sidebar on the right (under "Autolisp Resources").

There are 4 websites with a lot of good information.

Oh well, I'll just paste the links in this post also:

ABC's of Autolisp

Visual Lisp Developers Bible

Ron Autolisp

Afralisp.net

...and one more - Hot Tip Harry's latest article on Lisp Symbols.

Labels: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, Free, Notices, Programming

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PermaLink       Posted 1/24/2008 05:42:00 PM      Comments (0)

In Land Desktop 2006, if you have a drawing open and double click a .DWG file in Windows Explorer, the second drawing file will open in a new session of LDT.

In Land Desktop 2008, if you double click a .DWG file in Windows Explorer, the drawing will open in the currently open session of LDT. If the current drawing is modified, you will be prompted to save first.

Yes, I know that you should use the LDT Open command and not double click DWG files, but if you just can't stand it and want to restore the LDT2006 behavior, follow these steps.

• Open Windows Explorer
• On the tools menu, choose Folder Options.
• On the Files Type tab, find the DWG file extension and click it.
• Click the Advanced button.
• Click on the open action and press Edit.
• The "Application used to perform the action" is set to: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\AcShellEx\AcLauncher.exe" /O "%1"
• Change it to "C:\Program Files\AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008\acad.exe" "%1"
• Close all the dialogs.

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PermaLink       Posted 1/21/2008 07:37:00 PM      Comments (2)

If you want to disable the annoying Restart Now or Restart Later dialog that pops up every 10 minutes after Windows automatic updates downloads and installs an update.... take a look at this post

Labels: Free, Other software, Tips

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PermaLink       Posted 1/09/2008 07:08:00 AM      Comments (0)