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Any CAD software often makes its own April fools jokes but if you insist on adding your own jokes to AutoCAD's own AI , here are some tips that will please your colleagues for sure. You can e.g. let AutoCAD display a seriously looking "system" message on any opened drawing: For t…

Like every year, Autodesk again picks some of the best work of its customers and presents it in a company "Show Reel". Autodesk products were used in all presentations - from the design tools for digital prototyping, over the archictural and engineering BIM applications, over piping to th…

The online viewer associated with the Google Docs storage now understands 12 new file formats. The Google Docs Viewer is traditionally used to display e-mail attachments for Google Mail accounts. But you can use it to display any office and image files in the most common formats (DOC, XLS, PDF, PPT…

Thousands of users of Autodesk's software already use some of our community web services as their source of technical information. CAD Studio runs quite a number of such web resources - most of them are primarly targeted to Czech and Slovak users (see an overview ) - the CAD Forum por…

The new "Project Galileo", a technology preview from Autodesk Labs is a tool for creating digital cities - models integrating mapping data, CAD, geospatial, building, utility networks and database data. It may resemble a combination of computer games Sims and Trainz Simulator , but on a …

The Autodesk user conference "Autodesk University 2010" held currently in Las Vegas brings a series of interesting news and new product announcements. You can also take part on this conference as a virtual attendee - see "AU virtual" for Autodesk subscription customers. Here is …

The "customer involvement program" ( CIP ) is a tool for online reporting of software bugs and of the ways how customers use AutoCAD, Inventor and other Autodesk products. The offer to take part in this program is displayed when you launch AutoCAD - you may remember this picture: This too…

AutoCAD WS (formerly "Project Butterfly" ) is a free, cloud version of a CAD editor that supports the DWG and DXF file formats. This CAD tool runs on virtually any device - so you can create and edit your CAD drawings anywhere - online from an internet browser (on any desktop computer, l…

Many have speculated about this in the latest months but it is still surprising - Autodesk brings the most popular CAD application - AutoCAD - in the native version for Apple MacIntosh - AutoCAD for Mac . AutoCAD for Mac already existed in the past. In the year 1992, AutoCAD R12 was released in th…

Autodesk just released the latest version of its plant design software - AutoCAD Plant 3D 2011. It is an important release for us as this is the first version of Plant 3D distributed also for the Czech market and XANADU is currently the sole authorized reseller of Plant 3D in Czechia. Plant 3D i…

New web rendering service Autodesk Project Neon is an interesting Labs product employing the "unlimited" computing performance of the internet server cloud. With this free web application ( technology preview by Autodesk Labs) you can easily create photorealistic renderings of views in …