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18 November 2008
Scott McEachron and Paving the Way - on the move          
In case you have not heard, our buddy Scott McEachron is on the move. Scott, formerly with a reseller in north Texas, is now the proprietor of 1.2.1 Professional Consulting Services, offering Civil 3D implementation services, training and support for AutoCAD, Civil 3D and other Autodesk products, and more.

Scott's blog, Paving the Way, is still active, same name with a different address. Check it out, and best wishes Scott.

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PermaLink       Posted 11/18/2008 06:30:00 AM      Comments (0)
30 November 2007
AU2007 Report          

Autodesk University 2007 is over. There were a lot of good classes, and a couple that....well, I'll get to that later...


Here were some of my favorites.


  • DEA path to Civil 3D migration - DEA presented a class on their migration from Land Desktop to Civil 3D. You can read all the blogs and websites you want, talk to all the resellers you want, but this was first hand info from a consumer on what worked and what didn't. Excellent class. Most of our assumptions were confirmed, one being the expected 5-6 days of training required for each user.
  • The Secrets of cutting plan and profile sheets in Civil 3D - Michelle Rasmussen from IMAGINiT Technologies was easily the best speaker I had last week. The content fit the time slot, and it was presented in a logical and easy to understand manner.
  • Vaulting the Civil 3D Data Chasm - Mark Evinger from Cowhey Gudmundson Leder presented a fairly technical class on why they decided on Vault over Data Shortcuts, the cost, time, and hardware needed to set up a Vault, and even shared their internal training schedule.
  • Filling the gaps in the Sheet Set Manager - If you use SSM, you probably wish it could do some things that it can't. R. Robert Bell demonstrated how to use VBA to solve some of the shortcomings of the SSM.
  • Anonymous - I did sit in on one class however that was brutal. It was advertised to users of the product, however the speaker spent the majority of the time talking about doing stuff like manually editing XML files using different 3rd party programs, and using VBA to edit files supplied by Autodesk. I do a fair amount of programming and I barely understood what was going on. About 3/4 of the 400+ user class left in the first 45 minutes.

That last example is an exception to the rule of course.


Outside of class...


  • The exhibit hall was huge. Hundreds of booths with a variety of products exhibited.
  • I met several people, some for the first time - others I have met before. Allow me to drop some names....


Other notes...


I even ran into Shaan (camera in hand of course) out on the strip Wednesday night. Does he ever sleep?

During my 3:00-4:30 class on Thursday, my wife was out shopping and ran into Pete Rose over at a sports shop in Caesars Palace. You just never know who you might run into in Vegas I suppose....

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PermaLink       Posted 11/30/2007 02:20:00 PM      Comments (0)
22 September 2006
Todays notes          
Here's another blog to add to your reader...
Knowing What You Don't Know About CAD: Blog | RSS Feed

Also, add your thoughts to the current CAD Managers Survey conducted by Robert Green, the results of which will be published in the November issue of Cadalyst.

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PermaLink       Posted 9/22/2006 07:15:00 AM      Comments (0)
20 April 2006
Blog Alert          
Not sure how I have missed this one for so long...

The CAD Industry Blog - RSS/Atom Feed

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16 September 2005
Raster Design Blog          
Another great new CAD blog.


Title: Using Raster Design with AutoCAD
Author: Jane Smith
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PermaLink       Posted 9/16/2005 12:30:00 PM      Comments (0)
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