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Autodesk Exchange site going to facebook???

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Message 1 of 20
JamesMaeding
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Autodesk Exchange site going to facebook???

I wonder if Autodesk realizes many companies block facebook.

It only confirms to me that individual relationships are getting lost over "masses" of "friends".

 

Can a facebook expert explain the best way to use the page? Facebook always seemed simple to me, but the autodesk page is confusing.


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Message 2 of 20

I'll never visit it there.

"Passing the costs to someone else 'cause we can"

Message 3 of 20
JamesMaeding
in reply to: JamesMaeding

well, neither would I, but adesk is shutting down its exchange site and "moving" the content there.

I'd just like to understand how the facebook site helps, it seems so mushed together.

I would prefer some kind of segregation into user, cad managers, Lt, mobil, and developers.

I don;t want to see all the LT posts....


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Message 4 of 20
TravisNave
in reply to: JamesMaeding

We also block Facebook.  If we opened it up, we'd lose productivity.



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Message 5 of 20

Come on! There's some good LT stuff out there!  Smiley Very Happy

 

How does anyone find anything the need on facebook anyway?

It's just a grievance highway for those who either can't formulate a response face to face or need to live vicariously through others.

 

(funny how the spell check trips up on "facebook". Autodesk needs to add that word to the master dictionary.)

 

Message 6 of 20
JamesMaeding
in reply to: JamesMaeding

I don't get why anyone would buy LT.

If you need cheap acad, get bricscad. Then you have lisp, menus and other stuff.

I know about object enablers, but proxy's are fine if you are just looking at files.


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Message 7 of 20
JamesMaeding
in reply to: TravisNave

ah, but now you can gain it back! All those general help videos and photos of other peoples projects, how can you go wrong?

 

I get a kick out of the "close friend" designation you can do. Will there next be "business friend" and "party friend", and maybe a "spam friend" category?


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Message 8 of 20

Then there would be no need to come here and be berated. Smiley Wink (and use these fun emoticons to boot!)

Message 9 of 20
pendean
in reply to: JamesMaeding

Why would anyone buy plain-Jane AutoCAD then? Yet many do, as much as LT. Go figure, turns out 'cheap' vs. being 'in the family' and conforming to some 'business standard' really matters to a whole lot of more users and corporations than not.

 

Think MSOffice, Adobe Acrobat (all variants), Photoshop, Illustrator, MSOutlook... same arguments there too.

Message 10 of 20
JamesMaeding
in reply to: pendean

why buy plain acad?

because it has the api's, of course, and because of plotting and possibly object enablers.

If you are looking at products without the api's, you are likely doing that because your environment is not demanding, you are just looking at things, or drawing basic stuff (a dog house, space shuttle logo, whatever NASA interns do...).

 

Keep in mind, Office and others you mention are cheap, autocad and verticals are $5k and up.

MS office is not really a critical programming platform in the way autocad and verticals are.

So the trends on those tools do not appply to autocad customers.

 

Bricscad V12.2 seems rock solid to me so far. It does need several interface tools, just like autocad, but its very mature.

I will likely start a blog on how to use it for Civil Engineering, we need more companies to see the options.


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Message 11 of 20
pendean
in reply to: JamesMaeding

because of plotting? What does that mean?

 

LT is cheap in comparison to the rest of the AutoCAD line. What I was talking about is more people care to be "autoCAD" users, even with LT, over something else that a customer of theirs using AutoCAD might trigger an embarrasing warning about possible file compatibility and authenticity. Branding is a force that cannot be ignored.

 

Judging by the overwhelming posts in these forums, and experiences at Reseller events, AutoCAD 'shows', AUGI Camps and more, many (dare I say most) AutoCAD users don't can or want to know about APIs, Lisp, ARX or much else. I dare say they would find LT just as useful as they would use AutoCAD.

 

Not everyone cares to learn AutoCAD beyond drafting: for those that do it's shortcommings in the major fields of it's target audience is significant. Hence the popularity of verticals.

 

Enjoy your blog: don't ignore the little man who only wants to draft, and not program.

Message 12 of 20
JamesMaeding
in reply to: pendean

By plotting, I mean the ability of each program to plot what it shows on screen.

You get into clipped images and lots of data, and stable plotting is a big deal. The dwg to pdf.pc3 in acad 2012 is top notch, so that could be a reason to use it and LT over bricscad.

 

The notice about "not a trusted dwg" will come to bite autodesk. I will be careful to educate the southern california users about the nature of that message. Won't be pretty for Autodesk since their "genuine" drawings may have aec objects unexploded from higher versions. Stuff from bricscad would not have items like that, since the civil progs like Carlson do not use custom objects.

aec objects are a different topic though.

 

Your point about basic drafting supports using bricscad. If just doing basics, why pay for the heavy duty product.

The little shops I know of would LOVE to drop their adesk products for ones 10x cheaper that perform well.

Like, you could make a living off transitioning people if you know what you are doing and are good with menus and lisp.


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Message 13 of 20
TerryDotson
in reply to: JamesMaeding

What are they going to do when FB falls through and the next big thing comes along, something like ImSpaced or whatever.

Message 14 of 20
TravisNave
in reply to: TerryDotson

FB will be deemed "Too big to fail" and will receive a gov't bailout. At that point, they will be state controlled media and it won't matter anymore.



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Message 15 of 20
pendean
in reply to: TravisNave

I like it 🙂

Message 16 of 20
Charles_Shade
in reply to: pendean

Too funny!

Does that mean that Zuckerberg did not create fb on his own?

Message 17 of 20
TravisNave
in reply to: Charles_Shade

Not according to Obama.  Anyway, how could he have created FB if it weren't for Al Gore creating the Internet?  Smiley Very Happy



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Message 18 of 20
Charles_Shade
in reply to: TravisNave

That is exactly where I went as well. Smiley Wink

Message 19 of 20
JamesMaeding
in reply to: pendean

but we are the government, and pay for everything, so we make it...how does it then make us?

Just remember (for Hitchiker's Guide fans...), be sure to vote the RIGHT lizard into office, because if you don't, the wrong lizard WILL get elected instead...

 

 


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Message 20 of 20
AllenJessup
in reply to: JamesMaeding

Well. I guess that leaves me out. FB is blocked at the office as well as YouTube, screecast and almost everything else. It took me years to get them to remember to unblock this site after each firewall upgrade. For a while I couldn't visit any website to do with Middlesex or Sussex Counties because they have the letters S, E and X next to each other!

 

I don't FB at home because I don't have time to even if I wanted to. It's funny. People know I'm good with computers. So they come to me and ask questions about Facebook and twitter. I just shrug my shoulders and tell them I have no idea.

 

BTW Isn't ther stock doing so well?

 

Allen



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