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Join CADD Microsystems for their February Tech Tour

Donnie Gladfelter — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:47:32 +0000

Kicking off the first of many TechTour events my company hosts each year, CADD Microsystems is excited to return to the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC on February 15, 2012 to share a one day learning experience with our customers. For those who have never had the opportunity to join CADD Microsystems for one of their TechTour [...]

Using MindManager 2012 at Autodesk University 2011

Donnie Gladfelter — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:30:53 +0000

Autodesk University has long been the unequaled destination to learn from some of the top presenters in the industry today. While such presentations are still a mainstay of the conference, Autodesk introduced a revolutionary new type of presentation to the roster several years ago. The folks at Autodesk like to call this special subset of [...]

A Geek’s Gadget Guide to Autodesk University

Donnie Gladfelter — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:00:06 +0000

Autodesk’s annual user conference, Autodesk University, will bring thousands of Autodesk product users to the Venetian Hotel and Resort in about a week. Several bloggers have already made posts highlighting AU survival tips like “bring chap stick” and “wear comfortable shoes”, but what about the gadgetry necessary to survive the conference? This post will leave [...]

Join me at the [acronym] Magazine Public Sector CAD Awards

Donnie Gladfelter — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:00:19 +0000

In my position at CADD Microsystems I get to work with a large number of public sector (government) customers who use Autodesk software. It’s always a treat to chat with people from the public sector, as the types of design challenges they’re often forced to solve are so far out-of-the-box that you can’t help but [...]

New Volumes Dashboard for Civil 3D 2012

Donnie Gladfelter — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:33:20 +0000

I’ve been working on a rather sizeable project at work over the last couple months. While I can’t unveil the results of those efforts quite yet, I do look forward to making an announcement in a couple of weeks – so stay tuned. With some time to settle back into the blogging routine, I wanted [...]

Missing Links of the Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite

Donnie Gladfelter — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:38:49 +0000

If you haven’t already checked out the new-for-2012 Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite, stop what you’re doing and call your reseller. The various industry-specific Design Suites introduced this year by Autodesk accomplish a number of things including, but not limited to making the cost prohibitive, multi-product workflow you’ve heard about for years more attainable than ever. [...]

Quick Quantities using Field Conversion Factors

Donnie Gladfelter — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:31:44 +0000

The long list of inquiry tools within AutoCAD provide many ways to approach the task of performing quantity takeoffs on your drawings. Yet as powerful as these tools are, one limitation that has long challenged me is way 1 doesn’t always equal 1 in the context of quantity takeoffs. A common example of this is [...]

Help Shape the Future of AutoCAD

Donnie Gladfelter — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:25:14 +0000

Having just wrapped up a series of 2012 Autodesk Product Launch events, it’s hard for me to even start thinking about next year’s release. Of course, for Autodesk to meet their annual release cycle, you better believe they’ve already started thinking about AutoCAD 2013 and beyond. In fact, Autodesk is currently conducting a survey on [...]

AutoCAD 2012: First Look at Rectangular Arrays

Donnie Gladfelter — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:57:47 +0000

Along with their complete line of 2012 products, Autodesk told the world about AutoCAD 2012 (now shipping) during their annual product launch event. While individual products were certainly an important component of the product launch event, they were not the most important element. More importantly was the way Autodesk will assemble its product portfolio into [...]

Creating Metric Drawing Sheets with Imperial Page Sizes

Donnie Gladfelter — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:21:06 +0000

Although imperial measurements remain the prevalent standard in the U.S., a growing number of projects are indeed utilizing metric measurements. This combination of both imperial and metric measurements creates a unique challenge for many architects and engineers. After all we’re taught paper space (layouts) should always be 1:1, yet using a standard imperial paper size [...]