Follow AUGI highlights and other event mentions on Twitter (a micro-blogging tool):http://twitter.com/AUGIatAUAlso, check out who AUGIatAU is following to easily locate the micro-blogging feeds of Joseph Wurcher, Shaan Hurley and the AUGI BoD.If you Tweet from AU, use the hash code #AU2008 so people can follow your updates (also, if you blog from AU, don't forget to tag your post...
Monday, 1 December 2008
Monday, 10 November 2008
November 4th was the big day for the Perry family.Our 2nd son entered the world a healthy 7lbs 12oz and 21" long.Our Picasa brag book.We came home on Saturday and are both doing great. Offspring Alpha and dear hubby are looking after us well. Thanks to all for the good wishes on the forums and blo...
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Another webcast you might be interested in:Free AutoCAD programming webcast: .NET for LISP Programmers As mentioned in this previous post, my team delivers regular webcasts on programming with Autodesk technologies. Assuming you're reading this while the metaphorical ink's still damp, it's still not too late to register for a class being held on Thursday October 16th at 8am Pacific, 5pm CET: AutoCAD: .NET for LISP Programmers. Otherwise you should be able to find a recording of the webcast on this page within a few weeks of the session...
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Update: this webcast was recorded, and should be posted in about a week to:www.autodesk.com/autocadltwebcastsvia Autodesk:AutoCAD LT Webcast: Annotation Unlimited: Making the Most of Annotation Tools in AutoCAD LTDate & Time: Thursday, October 2, 2008 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. PDT Annotating drawings is something that everybody has to do. No matter how clearly a plan or detail is drawn, it almost always needs some text inserted to convey all the information it should. With AutoCAD® LT, however, that task is easier than ever. In this webcast, AutoCAD...
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Just a reminder... The Gateway Autodesk User's Group is meeting tonight at the Masonry Institute on Big Bend. From 6-7:30.Local BIM guru and educational advocate Tomislav Zigo will be presenting on Interoperability and Building Performance tools.We'll be giving away a pass to Autodesk University (must be 21 and over, and able to cover own transportation costs), among other prizes.What else: If you are a GAUG member and if you are present at the meeting, you might win a pass to Autodesk University 2008. ($ 1,845 value).You can RSVP here to make...
Saturday, 6 September 2008
I love the calendar reminders on the AUGI forum site.I can easily see there are a few LUG's/Local Chapters/SIG's with events this week (I also see by the calendar page itself that there are six more events the following week).September 9th, 2008 -- San Francisco Revit Structure Special Interest Group- Redwood Empire Revit User GroupSeptember 10th, 2008 -- STRUG-SD- Sacramento MEP User Group- GAUG (St. Louis Metro Area) CAD/BIM Meeting- North Bay...
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
There is another meeting of the Gateway AUG coming up. This is for anyone interested in design tools who is in the St. Louis Metro Area.Our meetings are always free, and you don't *have* to RSVP. Feel free to show up and bring a friend.Not only do you hear from some local experts about their fields, you can also network and hang out with some really cool folks.Hope to see you there!P.S. Please note, our Fall Quarterly meeting was supposed to be the night before the CAD Camp, but, it looks like that event has been canceled. We'll miss the instructors...
Friday, 15 August 2008
Now that I've asked you to take part in the AUGI Annual Salary Survey (for all job titles and all disciplines) and you've given such a great response, I'm going to encourage you to take part in Robert Green's CAD Manager 2008 Survey (if applicable).He does a great job with this every year, and his results are one of the multiple resources that I keep handy to analyze how competitive my pay is.The results of my Salary Survey come out in the September/October edition of AUGIWorld Magazine, and the results of Robert's CAD Manager Survey will be in...
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Well, contrary to the cautionary tale from our friend over at Dell, it wasn't held up for two weeks, and my DH has just taken receipt of a brand spanking new 17" Dell Studio for me.I plan on posting a review on the Tech-Tea blog within the next few days (as soon as I have time), complete with pictures and comparisons to the Dell Inspiron that I had been using.I'll be happy to be up and running on a fully running machine after all of these weeks banging my head against the wall.Other tiny updates... the next Gateway AUG meeting is tentatively scheduled...
Monday, 11 August 2008
Friday, 25 July 2008
I've been having some problems with my home computer (a sweet 'little' 17.1" widescreen Inspiron 9400/E1705 laptop). It's something related to the graphics card and driver.My #1 IT guy has been propping it along for the past 6-8 months with some hacked versions of the drivers (something about Dell only having propriety stuff, but, stuff that won't work correctly).We've finally had to give up on that route, as it's no longer good enough and he has been dueling with the Tech Support personnel for a five weeks now.He's gamely walked through every...
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Looks like the AU 2008 class listing is now available!Of the over 600 classes available across every discipline, there will also be six 'Power Tracks'.AutoCAD, C3D, Geospatial, Industrial Design, Inventor and RevitThere is also some further breakdown in the Mechanical classes, I think there are five different categories. Customization & Programming and Development are now in two different categories as well.There are nine Facilities Management/CAFM/BIM classes this year (to check out the class handouts from some of the past courses offered...
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
I thought I'd share with you today, a little listing of some posts I have come across in the customization newsgroup on the Autodesk Discussion Groups. These are just topics that I found fairly interesting to read; I hope you enjoy some of them, too (if you don't want to read through the whole list, don't forget to utilize your browser's 'Find' command to locate a certain topic - CTRL + F).I've listed the original thread title, the username of the original poster, the date the thread was begun and then a short description of the topic:Please, Need...
Thursday, 3 July 2008
I just noticed a post on Shaan Hurley's blog revealing that the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2009 Bible is now available.As I mentioned, I've been lucky enough to have been able to assist Ellen Finkelstein in the updating of her priceless teaching and reference work for the past two releases. Lee Ambrosius also works with Ellen on this book, in addition to everything else he does (such as programming and writing AutoCAD for Dummies).So, if you need to learn AutoCAD, or just want to have a handy reference of anything and everything in the program, I'd...
I just read an entertaining column from one of my favorite local Post-Dispatch writers, Bob R (I can't spell his last name, but, I can pronounce it!).He's written a piece with examples of how nerds, dorks and geeks are taking over America, from business to movies and bookstores. Sweet.You can check it out he...
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
This year's AUGI Salary Survey run is officially over!The numbers are in and I've post an updated participation chart below.Thank you, thank you, thank you to the nearly 6,000 participants this year!Many of my peers suggested that participation levels might drop significantly this year, due to the downturn in some sectors of the US building industry, but, the numbers are fairly steady. We'll see if the demographics have changed much once the results...
Monday, 30 June 2008
Well, it's been a busy time in the Perry household.We were thrilled to have hosted our dear friends Bill and Karen from Australia for a week. It's fun playing tourist here in St. Louis, especially in the beautiful springtime.While at Grant's Farm, we did get caught in a pretty heinous downpour. But, rather than run for the meager shelter with the rest of the human cattle, we stayed standing below the umbrellas on the dining tables. Offspring Alpha, having been placed standing on the table by Bill, stayed pretty dry with the exception of his feet....
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Well, as we all should know, the Annual Salary Survey is getting close to the end of it's run (so be sure to take part within the next 5 days!)I thought it might be fun to take a peek back at the participation numbers over the years:2002: 1,6292003: 1,2712004: 3,2592005: 6,0262006: 7,8302007: 6,7212008: ?,???Those are some pretty impressive numbers there, but I'm sure that, with your help, we can do even better here in 2008.Remember that the results...
Friday, 6 June 2008
AUGI is currently running the 2008 Annual Salary Survey!Which means that your peers need YOU to log in and report your views. We call this a survey because that's precisely what we're doing. We're collecting information from the members to compile and share back with the members. What a great idea! But, unfortunately, only about 10% of our membership takes part each year, which limits the amount of meaningful data that I've got to work with. Remember, every little bit helps. Speak for your industry!Normally we do this survey in the fall and publish...
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Looks like Autodesk has posted a new site for the AIA Convention resources they've put together. Podcasts and webcasts on BIM and Sustainable Design. Sounds pretty interesting. See below for a snippet of what you can find:Check out the “Voices of Architecture Podcast Library” where you’ll find a series of podcast interviews including: Bob Berkebile, BNIM – Bob discuss the topic of Architecture and Public Identity and why it is a hot topic in the industry. Bob also describes one of the most interesting projects his firm is currently working...
Friday, 30 May 2008
A term that's appearing a lot these days in the design world is BIM Manager.How is that different from a CAD Manager? How vital is the role that they play? How much money can they expect to earn?Well, as we all know... information is only as important as what you do with it.Do you keep it up to date?Can everyone find it?Is it accurate?Is it being passed along to everyone who needs it in a usable form?Check out the following commentary and see what others have to say (and, I have to admit, it's difficult to find BIM Management articles, since when...
Friday, 23 May 2008
Hi there, fellow FM'ers. I just wanted to give you folks an update on how my project has been going.I started out about a year ago with FMDesktop 7.0 (FM, FL, FW) and cross-graded to ACA08 (for the SpaceAutoGenerate feature), which then made me update to FMD7.1 (because the older one didn't work with anything newer than 2007, also remember that 2009 will not work with 7.1, so I hope you've got FMD subscription for when the development team adds that...
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Congratulations to Randy Grim, Stray Rescue and the St. Louis community for winning a recent contest that earned them one million dollars for a shelter makeover.ZooToo sponsored this makeover contest and searched the country looking for the most worthy program and gave financial gifts to the top three.This looks like a really great resource site, which was founded by the former CEO of Meow Mix (Richard Thomas).A.G. Edwards has apparently donated a warehouse to Stray Rescue which will house them and other services including Pound Pals (Randy's ultimate...
I went over some of the highlights of the my initial product review of the AutoCAD 2009 release in this article back in February.In April, AUGI HotNews published my TipNiques column on the Interface changes with ACAD09.And in May, I did a follow up (AutoCAD 2009: Odds and Ends) listing all of the little changes, enhancements and new features that I'd come across.In June, Brian Benton is scheduled to round out this series with a good walk through on the Action Recorder, so be sure to check it out.There have also been some articles in AUGIWorld and...
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Alright, I've been a little busy lately.Okay, a lot busy.Since it's new product time, I'd finished up my work for Ellen on the 2009 AutoCAD and LT Bible, then started on a couple of articles for AUGI HotNews TipNique's column (April and May 2008).I returned to college as a student of St. Louis University's School of Professional Studies to resume my Bachelor's degree.Then my husband and I found out that we were expecting offspring #2... so I've been having to spend an awful lot of time napping because I'm EXHAUSTED.Also, the Gateway AUG had their...
Friday, 18 April 2008
Well, some residents of the Midwest are talking today.Evidently overnight, there was a 5.4 Earthquake (or 5.2) on the border between the states of Illinois and Indiana.Now, the Perry household resides in Missouri (over 130 miles away) but, we felt it. Near 20 to 5:00 this morning, both myself and my husband woke up. He didn't realize what woke him and fell back asleep.But, past Californian that I am, I recognized the feel and sat up to see how long it would last and see how strong it was. It probably lasted half a minute. It was strong enough to...
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Check it out, Autodesk just posted the Raster Design Object Enabler yesterday. ID: DL11091617 Applies to:AutoCAD® 2009AutoCAD® Architecture 2009AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009AutoCAD® Electrical 2009AutoCAD® Land Desktop 2009AutoCAD® Map 3D 2009AutoCAD® Mechanical 2009AutoCAD® MEP 2009The AutoCAD® Raster Design 2009 Object Enabler is a freeware application that you can use to display AutoCAD® Raster Design 2009 image files. This release allows object data created in AutoCAD Raster Design 2009 to be accessed outside the AutoCAD Raster Design environment.At...
Monday, 14 April 2008
Autodesk University is accepting course proposals from those who wish to teach classes at AU2007 in Las Vegas. Get them on in, don't wait until April 27th! The great teachers and targeted topics are what make this trip worth it for eager students! Submit multiple proposals if you'd like!Specifically for those Facility Management/CAFM folks out there, Mark Evans from Autodesk is willing to talk over ideas with you, if you'd like some feedback or refinement on a topic you're thinking about teaching.Sadly, as mentioned, for the first time, I will...
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Monday, 31 March 2008
The Gateway Autodesk User Group (serving the St. Louis and Metro areas) is going to have it's Spring quarterly meeting on April the 4th from 6:00-8:00pm.We'll be meeting at the Masonry Institute. Google map here.I'll do a quick rundown of the interface changes with the AutoCAD 2009 family of products, and we'll have another speaker tackle a task in Revit Architecture. I might also prepare a couple of slides talking about the industries with the highest salaries (based on the recent AUGI Design Salary Survey).As always, food and drinks will be provided...
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Bonus tools, express tools... whatever you call them, you've got certain tasks that just wouldn't be as easy without them!The past few years, Autodesk has rolled more of them into the AutoCAD-based products (like the layer tools now on the Layers II toolbar like LAYISO, Change Space, Layer Merge). A couple of those tools have really been improved/expanded, too.BUT, there are still a few more tools left over on the old EXPRESSMENU.Autodesk wants to know which ones are your favorite!So, take this survey and share your thoughts with them. Who knows...
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Some of you may or may not be familiar with the American Design Drafting Association, so feel free to check them out here.It looks like they will be hosting their 49th Annual educational conference here in St. Louis. The Gateway to the Wet (that was intentional, because we're flooding a bit right now).The conference runs from April 14th through the 18th,It looks like there are a few opportunities for attendees to qualify to receive some free software. They also encourage you to bring a laptop because many vendors will be offering free downloads?...
Monday, 17 March 2008
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Monday, 10 March 2008
I mean me. Yes, at the same time that I'm going through the fun of getting my offspring registered to begin school, I am getting ready to become a student again myself.Not to his school, of course. Although, elementary might be a bit easier than university.I'll start my first class on Thursday though St. Louis University's School for Professional Studies. I've been wanting to complete my Bachelor's degree, and am thrilled to be able to start back up on it again.The thing that is different about the Professional Studies curriculum is that it is...
Friday, 7 March 2008
The Gateway Autodesk User Group (serving the St. Louis and Metro areas) is going to have it's Spring quarterly meeting on April the 4th from 6:00-8:00pm. We'll be meeting at the Masonry Institute. Google map here.We'll have some tips and tricks for various disciplines, as well as a quick showing of AutoCAD 2009 so you can take a peek at some of the interface changes and other tweaks.As always, food and drinks will be provided (by our sponsor, Seiler Instrument, thanks to them!).I hope to see you there, bring a friend... If you have any questions/comments,...
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Hey, faithful readers... I figured some of you Midwesterners would like to know about some upcoming user group meetings in Springfield, Illinois. The Central Illinois Autodesk User Group has announced the dates for their next three meetings:March 12thApril 23rdMay 21stThey'll all start at 7pm, and be held at Hanson Engineering. So, if you're in the neighborhood, why not pop on by?For questions contact: Nick Del FaroAnd for you Gateway AUG members, yes, we've been in planning for our spring meeting for awhile. We had a date schedule, but, my school...
Monday, 3 March 2008
Pardon me as I meander down memory lane today...I go by the username 'Wanderer' on a few forums, for the simple reason... I am one. I have moved quite a bit in my short(ish) life. I was chatting with my boss last year during my most recent house move, and we realized that was the 8th address I'd had in my seven years of working for him.Well, last Friday we had a meeting to review our project, and we've set a move date.As of May, I will be moving...
Monday, 25 February 2008
Finally! Some great news commuters have been waiting for! Missouri and Illinois have finally reached an agreement enabling them to move forward with the plans to add another bridge across the Mississippi River.An official announcement (press conference with MoDot?) is evidently planned for Thursday.The sigh of relief is over the fact that we've had $$money$$ approved from Congress for like two years, and hadn't moved forward yet.As a reformed Illinoisan, I have spent many a long rush hour on the Poplar Street Bridge. Four Interstates converge on...
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Oh, yes, another CAD weblog is born...Blog is Dead, my foot (Chris Lindner at AU2006).A plug for my friend Steve, otherwise known as that Bug Watch guy or one of the CADLock guys: he has started a new blog! Blog Nauseam. Nice.AutoCAD, music, images and video make this a well-rounded site, check him o...
Well, with this announcement on Volker Joseph's 'Beyond the Paper' blog, I might finally be convinced to switch back to an Autodesk drawing viewer.Since VoloView Express (Autodesk's prior FREE dwg viewer) went the way of the dodo, our mechanics, supervisors and project managers needed a drawing viewer to see the systems prints on our server.All they needed to do was to open, print and measure within these files, but, of course, they didn't want to spend any money. We needed the bucks for more important things like chillers, etc.I ended up selecting...
Monday, 18 February 2008
February 17th through 23rd, 2008 is National Engineer's Week!And, a special note is that February 21st is 'Introduce a Girl to Engineering' day!Check out these links to find resources and ideas of how you can participate.Sometimes I worry that Engineering and other technical design fields have an image problem. Students contemplating different careers think of engineering as 'too hard' or 'too nerdy' or as needing too much science or math. Most folks that I talk to in the industry have a parent, grandparent or other close relative in Engineering.So,...
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