Tag: AutoCAD

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AutoCAD Crashes Caused by Old Adobe Flash Player

seen on Tom’s blog – Without a Net

Autodesk has been receiving reports of crashes in a variety of Autodesk products ( and versions ) while using the help system or while viewing videos ( such as in the New Feature Workshop ). Audesk has traced the source of these crashes and found them to be caused by having an older version (or corrupted installation) of the Adobe Flash Player on user systems.

In these cases, uninstalling the older version of Flash and then reinstalling a current version from the Adobe website should address the problem.

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AutoCAD Crash Caused by Odd Registry Value

seen on Tom’s blog – Without a Net

In the past, we’ve seen issues where you would launch AutoCAD and it would immediately close with a Customer Error Report ( CER ) dialog and possibly the message:
“This version of AutoCAD was not installed properly and some features may not run correctly. You should reinstall AutoCAD immediately to make sure all features are working properly. Do you wish to continue anyway?”
This often points to a corruption in the .NET Framework but we recently discovered a cause that was a bit more unusual.

It turns out that one source for this kind of crash stems from a bad registry entry in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.png key. There have been user-reported cases where the value in the Content Type key contains a leading space:

In cases where someone had that leading space in the value, simply removing it resolved the crash.

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AutoCAD 2011 and many other Autodesk 2011 Products Released

seen on Shaan’s blog – Between the Lines

AutoCAD 2011 iconStarting today March 25th 2010 you will begin to see and hear a great deal of information about the new 2011 products being released from Autodesk.

Starting with the new AutoCAD. There are some really nice enhancements included in AutoCAD 2011.
Here is just a quick taste with a more detailed list and tutorials coming soon:
– Associative surfaces.
– Inferred constraints.
– Transparency for some objects like Hatches.
– Support for Point Clouds up to 2 billion points.
– New materials and viewport rendering quality.
And much more!

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Discover new commands used by the community

seen on Autodesk Labs

Take advantage of the Customer Involvement Program (CIP) and receive command recommendations from the user community. CommunityCommands is a new plug-in for AutoCAD that compares your workflows with those of other users in the community and recommends new commands which might be particularly useful for you.
Compare this with the recommendations you get on iTunes or Amazon. When you buy music or books, you see also what others are buying in the same genre.

In addition to providing new recommendations, CommunityCommands provides a quick access panel to your most recently used commands.

To use this technology preview you will need to sign up for the Customer Involvement Program.

http://youtu.be/PTT30FbCJnk

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Software as a service – the Cloud

Software as a Service – SaaS – or Cloud Computing is an online service where the software is not running on hardware at the enduser, but on a machine farm at an application service provider or directly at the software vendor.

The software licences are not purchased, but the software use is rented. For a certain period of time, for a certain project – there are several contractual options.
Software updates and hardware services are fulfilled by the service provider without overloading the IT department of the enduser.
Sometimes a small client utility is used to connect to the service, sometimes it runs over the HTTP or HTTPS protocols in a regular webbrowser.

Autodesk is currently running a pilot with the products: AutoCAD, Inventor and Revit op Autodesk Labs – Project Twitch.

ESRI has ArcGIS Online that provides ArcGIS users with a set of core services over the web.