A high school friend of mine works for AutoDesk and just put this up as his status on facebook...
I'm thankful that we'll be saying good bye to 2011 soon. What a freakin' year. This was my family's AutoCAD Release 13. Here's to r14 in 2012 😉
I'm not really an AutoCAD guy, but I can sorta get the humor... I'll bet some of you REALLY get it.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!
R13 was widely thought to be a poor release and R14 was a huge improvement. Likewise R11 vs R12.
Stay away from the odd numbered version of AutoCAD.
But we have C3D 2010. My least favorite part of it is the display jumping around on start up and some plot functions. I don't know why it needs to shift the view around multiple times (slowing it down) for those operations.
AutoDesk not-so humorous...
I'm not much into "AutoDesk humor" today...:o(
Just received a dwg file (which is, of course in the "newest" format) from an attorney to "take a look at" for him (mind you, all I needed to do was "look at it"). Used to just open my faithful "DWGateway" menu in AutoCad and press "Open any DWG version" easy as pie; it would have been converted on-the-fly. Well, not with the "new" version of DWG! So, I figure I'll have to use the ACad "TrueView" virus (the one I avoid like the plague) that AutoDesk made which includes the "free" dwg conversion utility. Apparently, I've avoided it too long as it won't open the file either. Of course, AutoDesk can't include an "upgrade" button on the help menu like any other software company. You must upgrade manually to "TrueView 2012."
222 meg install file download later... I find that I have to manually uninstall "TrueView 2010" first, then install 2012. So, 15 minutes later... I restart the "TrueView 2012" installer, only to find out that I have to first close my file explorer program and FireFox (before running the installer). Get that stuff closed and restart the installer again only to find out that it will take "556 megs" of space on my system to install. Can anyone say "bloatware?"
So, 20 minutes and 556 megs (and a complete system reboot) later... I open the dwg in "TrueView 2012" (which takes at least 5 minutes to set itself up with the new version of DirectX and to load all the plugins for god-knows-what other utilities and enhancements that I'll never need) only to "view" the file for the first time. Then's when I figure that I might as well proceed to "convert" the file (even though I've already "looked" at it enough to find out it's not what we requested). Finding the "convert dwg" ribbon, searching through the dialog box to find the right "power pill" to select the file to convert (it's not smart enough to know that you might want to just convert the file that it has open), and converting the file to god-knows-where on my hard drive (never could find it), is a bit like playing a Mario Brother's game where you have to look under every bush and around every corner to find all the "coins."
Well, after about an hour and a half later, I finally achieved my objective of "viewing" the file, only to find out that all of my .dwg extensions have been re-associated to launch "TrueVirus 2012" and that I need to manually re-associate my extensions to ignore that crap until the next time I'm forced (by AutoDesk) to use it again. I can only hope It'll be another two years before I have to deal with it!
In the mean time, it doesn't appear that SolidWorks has updated their DWGateway conversion utility for some time now. Does anyone out there have any suggestions for a DWG viewer "utility" and a DWG "converter" that are quick, simple, and NOT AutoDesk?
JBS
Here's the Winner
You win the prize for having the largest "turkey" at your house for Thanksgiving.
Here's the Winner
I quit, Holy. Headed to my Sister's house for a "real" turkey dinner. AutoDesk be damned! I'm eat'n some turkey!
Happy Thanksgiving!
JBS
AutoCAD aka as....
AutoSAD....
Here's the Winner
Send it to me...Ill send you a pdf...or I can try and save it down...but that doesn't always work..
we are on C3D 2012
wow
trueview has saved us a bunch of times. it's a very easy install, if you are using XP. Windows 7 might be another issue. i convert files for our LD group all the time.
AutoDesk not-so humorous...
next time you want to open an AutoCAD dwg, right click on the file, go to open-with and select whatever they call it (autocad dwg launcher or something like that). I go back and forth between Intellicad (Microsurvey) and AutoCAD and that will reassociate the DWG to Autocad after Intellicad grabbed the DWG for itself. But in Windows 7 that is one thing that doesn't keep changing probably not because Windows 7 is smarter but because the permissions in Windows 7 are so impossibly complex that Intellicad is not able to change the associations.
