My longtime colleague and programming guru Kean Walmsley wrote a great blog post talking about why AutoCAD R13 was painful, but it had to happen to re-architect the product. A brief history of rearchitecting AutoCAD (or the importance of R13) I was a customer of R13 and suffered…
Read MoreGoing into the Autodesk way way back machine for these AutoCAD sample drawings, the Space Shuttle Columbia from AutoCAD 2014 and Shuttle 3D DWG from AutoCAD R10. Download Columbia DWG Download Shuttle DWG A favorite historic DWG of mine is from AutoCAD 1.2, but sadly the copy I…
Read MoreBack in AutoCAD version 2.18, Autodesk placed a sample drawing with AutoCAD named the Solar.DWG to demonstrate the precision of AutoCAD back in the early eighties. AutoCAD was based used 64bit floating point precision and the most accurate back then. With this Solar DWG you can see our…
Read MoreAfter I was given the original nozzle that was in one of the first sample drawings of AutoCAD from 1984 (An Epic Piece of Autodesk History –The Nozzle), there were many discussions on old sample files. It’s Throwback Thursday, so in the spirit of that what is you…
Read MoreAn amazing surprise as I walked into the office this morning, Kevin Schneider presented me with the historical original nozzle used in many sample files and demos of AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor over the past 34 years. AutoCAD 2.6 included a sample drawing of a nozzle that has…
Read MoreAbout 25 years ago I was a mechanical designer, Autodesk customer, and a contributing member of the Autodesk Beta Programs. I received free products occasionally like tee-shirts, and other items as rewards for bug reporting and feedback, but one gift stood out. It was a simple black ceramic…
Read MoreThis is the 35th year of Autodesk and AutoCAD, and in the past year I have exchanged emails with the founder of Autodesk, John Walker. I asked John about the beginnings of Autodesk and also asked about what he sees in the future of technology given that he…
Read MoreAutodesk and AutoCAD was created 35 years ago this year. There are many celebrations looking back over the years, and also looking forward to the future. Autodesk was founded by John Walker, so I emailed with John on his perspective for the 35 years and asked him some…
Read More于7月3号成功登顶7546米的慕士塔格峰（新疆），带着一面"I Love AutoCAD“的35周年纪念旗子。 Hill是一名AutoCAD的资深老用户，他在90年代初就开始学习使用AutoCAD，从2.x版开始！ 这也不是Hill第一次带着AutoCAD的旗子出去登山。位于四川省的半脊峰顶上（5430米）也曾飘扬过“Keep Calm & Love AutoCAD”的旗子。半脊峰上露了半张脸的就是Hill。 登上7546米是个不俗的成绩，35周年的AutoCAD更是不凡！
Read MoreAn AutoCAD Team member, Hill Fang has summited with his 35 years of AutoCAD flag. Hill Fang summited Muztagh-Ata, 7,546m / 24,757ft, on July 3rd,2017 with an “I Love AutoCAD” 35 Year anniversary flag. Hill started using AutoCAD back in AutoCAD 2.x in the 80’s. This is not…
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