Where has the time gone?!?!?!Been busy all day. Was up till 3am (shhhh, don't tell my boss!), but, I was one of the few up that late who made it to class on time... if at all. It was good, at least the first half.The first half was going over the way MAPguide is used for FM, but, the 2nd half was a little over my head, so I went to 'work' in the AUGI booth. I tried hard to look clueless, but, kept being asked for help anyway. Lots of new members which was great. Reminds me of AU2001 at the beer bash when I first became an AUGI member, now, 5 AU's...
Tuesday, 29 November 2005
Monday, 28 November 2005
From the AUGI Booth
Posted on 19:51 by Unknown
Hello from the AUGI booth!!! And the playpen... you can test-drive all autodesk software here.The AUGI daug was hilarious... I've got a minute-long video of him scaring Yoshi, the AUGI president.Oh, the exhibit hall is closing in 10 minutes, the beer bash is almost over, sending the AUGI daug off to fetch one more round.We handed over the wishlists today for Autocad and Inventor.Saturday was great fun, met up with some friends from AUGI and an email list I belong to. Finally met Shaan Hurley in person, hopefully a DECENT picture of me will make...
Engineering Terms... and their real meaning.
Posted on 05:00 by Unknown
Top Engineering Terms and Expressions(What engineers say versus what they mean)1. A number of different approaches are being tried.(We are still guessing at this point.)2. Close project coordination.(We sat down and had coffee together.)3. An extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach.(We just hired three punk kids out of school.)4. Major technological breakthrough!(It works OK, but looks very hi-tech!)5. Customer satisfaction is believed assured.(We are so far behind schedule, that the customer will take anything.)6. Preliminary operational...
Friday, 25 November 2005
Brief Release History
Posted on 10:14 by Unknown
I made the following summary of features for my LUG newsletter after R2005 came out (having just added the information for 2006). Enjoy!Obviously, I cannot include when every command was added or significantly improved,but, I have selected the ones that I found most interesting. (A more complete, yet unofficial list of feature changes is posted on the Autodesk website.)Version 1.0 (Release 1) Dec-82Initial release of AutoCAD, demonstrated at COMDEXVersion 1.2 (Release 2) Apr-83Dimensioning added as an extra-cost optionVersion 1.3 (Release 3) Aug-83Layer-to-layer...
Tuesday, 22 November 2005
AU 2005 and AU Handouts from 2000-2004
Posted on 11:56 by Unknown
Alright, it's almost that time again. Orlando here I come! There are some great classes for FM this year, and it looks like there will be an after-hours mixer for Facilities Management CADdies... that's rolling out the red carpet for sure. I will be there the whole time, so come up and say 'hi'! Unless you're a salesperson/representing a service company, then, only say 'hi' if you have a gift to give me. Even if you are not an AUGI member, stop by the AUGI annual meeting monday night, and the AUGI beer bash afterwards. There is a lot of good stuff...
Friday, 18 November 2005
More Engineers?
Posted on 12:49 by Unknown
This is a subject I tend to think about, and since I just saw a good article in CADalyst (Growing Our Profession) about how to get future generations interested in Engineering, I thought I would make this my topic of the day. Assuming China is graduating so many more engineers because they need the infrastructure build-up more than we do wouldn't cover it all. Every source talking about this topic mentions the bad math and science scores in this country, St. Louis is no exception. I started reading an article about how the gap in achievements between...
Tuesday, 15 November 2005
MTJIGSTRING, PEDITACCEPT, TORIENT, Splash Screen for MS Access
Posted on 10:16 by Unknown
MTJIGSTRINGFrom Help: Sets the content of the sample text displayed at the cursor location when the MTEXT command is started. The text string is displayed in the current text size and font. You can enter any string of up to ten letters or numbers or enter . (period) to display no sample text.PEDITACCEPTFrom Help: (although my nagging memory says I've already posted this, sorry if I'm repeating myself)Suppresses display of the Object Selected Is Not a Polyline prompt in PEDIT. The prompt is followed by “Do you want it to turn into one?” Entering...
Wednesday, 9 November 2005
Geek Pickup Lines...
Posted on 10:02 by Unknown
[Edit: if you're looking for -> Lord of the Rings pickup lines] I just got this email from one of my fellow lug members... These are hilarious, thanks Allan S! (I realize this is an email forward, but, if anyone knows an originator, I'd like to give credit where it's due?)Geek Pick-up Lines 11. Tell me of this thing you humans call *dramatic pause* love. 10. If you turn me down now, I will become more drunk than you can possibly imagine. 9. They don't call me Bones because I'm a doctor. 8. Your name is Leslie? Look, I can spell your name...
Monday, 7 November 2005
Since Sliced Bread (aka R14), a couple of blogs, Salary Survey complete
Posted on 12:51 by Unknown
What’s the best thing since sliced bread (aka autocad release 14)?I’ve been following some interesting discussions on the Autodesk CAD Manager’s Newsgroup… what features do these users value? Which irritate them? Which missed the mark, but, could be a slam-dunk with some more work?Best Features Since R14:http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=436751Worst Features Since R14:http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=437107Forget sliced bread, this came out half-baked…Half-baked features Since R14:http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=437308Hey,...
Friday, 4 November 2005
New Playground, Grand Canyon Skywalk, Excel (97) Header Row
Posted on 09:54 by Unknown
Well, it snuck up on me, but, it's FALL now! Wow. Just took my 2 1/2 year old out trick or treating for the first time (at the mall). I almost passed on it again this year, as I figure he's too young to know what he'd be missing, and I don't really give him candy very often anyway. But! after he thanked me for taking him to the park and zoo, etc, I just had to. I bought him a pirate costume and away we went! He was just wide-eyed with wonder no matter what he was handed; a tootsie roll, a coupon, stickers, shampoo samples... lol. Nothing has ever...
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