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Join Me for the Autodesk Seize the Opportunity Virtual Event!

Join me for an AutoCAD 2011 Tips and Techniques presentation at this Autodek Virtual event on April 19.  Here you will get to hear from Heidi Hewett as she covers all things 3D in AutoCAD 2011 and Kate Morrical as she discusses the new features in AutoCD LT.

As for me - I'll be covering all the cool new features in AutoCAD 2011 (I can't wait!).  I will be visiting fewer towns in person this year so please sign up to join me "virtually".  Besides - you don't have to pay for gas, or parking (or talk to people you don't know) to participate in this event!  Of course I'll miss seeing your smiling faces in person.

Download the full agenda here 

And AutoCAD 2011 has arrived!

I have been so entrenched with the AutoCAD 2011 Launch that I haven't had a chance to blog!  Thankfully I know this has been covered extensively with the other bloggers  (including the ones who joined us at the launch event last Thursday in San Francisco). 

I'm getting ready to hit the road with a variety of launch events - not to mention finishing up my AutoCAD 2011 Tips and Tricks booklet (which I'll post on my blog as soon as it is finalized).  I'm feeling like I need to give some of the lesser known AutoCAD 2011 features some airtime on my blog - just to make sure they get their fair share of attention.

MIRRHATCH:

AutoCAD 2011 has a new System Variable that controls whether or not hatches are mirrored when included in the selection set with the MIRROR command. 

The default follows legacy behavior and defauls to 0.

Setting MIRRHATCH to 1 will mirror te hatch pattern.

Default Scale List that is pervasive through all drawings

Finally we have contorl over the default Scale list - hoorah!  Found in the OPTIONS dialog - this list saves the default list of scales found in the registry and will be used whenever the scale list is reset.

Well that is a couple of new features...more to follow!

 

 

The Time is Near!

For what?  I can't tell you - but be sure to tune in next Thursday for an exciting web event with Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and Senior VP Amar Hanspal.  You don't want to miss it! 

 
I've been certainly very busy getting ready myself!  (Hence the lack of blogging).  I've also been presenting at a few of the AUGI CAD Camps. Be sure to check out the schedule and see if there is a CAD Camp in a city near you - these are great events filled with AU caliber classes (taught by some of the top AU instructors!)

I'm trying to get home from an AUGI CAD Camp right now!  Flight after flight is delayed...(bad travel luck today I'm afraid).