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Make Autodesk forum posts available as a public dump

soonhui
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Make Autodesk forum posts available as a public dump

soonhui
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Autodesk, in a move that could only be described as widely unpopular, removed old forum posts from Internet, leaving behind broken links and missing information

 

I don't know the reason behind this, but to me this makes no sense at all. Why want to inconvenient your users? 

 

If Autodesk finds that the cost of hosting old forum posts is just too expensive,  I would suggest that Autodesk puts the data dump on archive.org, just like StackOverflow.  In that way those who want to access the information can still restore it. And it will not incur additional bandwidth or diskspace on Autodesk's side.

 

Please Autodesk, consider this as a request, a service you can do to the community who has been-- for years-- providing free technical support on your behalf.  

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TomBeauford
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Frustrating as this is the 3rd time they've done it that I remember.

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soonhui
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@TomBeauford ,

 

Third time! I'm relatively new here and I don't expect they did it many times over. When was the first and second time?

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TomBeauford
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As they were wiped from existence I can't say exactly when the first and second time was. They used to have a way to save helpful AutoCAD links not only from these forums but all helpful AutoCAD links under categories in My Dashboard so users could build their own help reference for their workflow including Screencast videos we used to be able to create ourselves. AutoCAD also took away our ability to create those Screencast videos as well.

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paullimapa
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All we can do is rely on other popular forums that won't be archiving their important threads when found through on-line search engines like:

https://forums.augi.com/

https://www.cadtutor.net/forum/forum/55-autocad-customization/


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soonhui
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@paullimapa ,

 

Other forums aren't nearly as popular.

 

Besides, my goal here is not to compete with Autodesk forum but to minimize the damage done by Autodesk management team. 

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cadffm
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Hi,

Even if you've never noticed it before, rest assured that dedicated users have gone through and

published every conceivable concern and possible solution.
First and foremost, of course, that nothing is deleted,
followed by archiving where possible.
All the negative points, everything has been explained every time.

Nothing has changed in terms of the plan or its implementation.

 

"to minimize the damage done by Autodesk management team"

They didn't care before the first time and apparently they got confirmation that it was great to do it that way.
Posts before 2000 (?) For this reason it was done again, posts before 2010(?)

I only know about two runs of the purge, off the top of my head, but I'm old and sometimes make mistakes when I haven't had enough sleep. laugh

 

2023, Purge older 2000 - Click

Sebastian

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soonhui
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@cadffm , the link that you put is not about really purging the content-- the content is still searchable via Google.

 

This time it's different. 

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cadffm
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Hi soonui,

If you think it's technically different, fine, but if you think it's relevantly different in practice, then I'm afraid I have to ask: How do I go about looking at the thread(!) "plotting layout - origin shifting"? https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-lt-forum/plotting-layout-origin-shifting/td-p/1889677 I'm hoping for a practical answer, but I'd be happy to hear any solution.

 

I can only see the first few words of a single post, which of course only helps in very few cases 😞

 
 

 

 

Sebastian

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TomBeauford
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Seems Autodesk has already taken down the link you posted.

In AutoCAD, the plot area limits are set by the plot size in the Page Setup dialog box. In Options Layout elements if you keep 'Display printable area' checked but not 'Display paper background' the dashed outline of the plot area limits will be shown but you cannot snap to it.

When creating a layout I always set the plot size 1st, draw a viewport using the min & max coordinates set by the plot size, draw a line snapping from the LL → UR of the viewport, delete the viewport and draw a rectangle using the endpoints of the line which will be the plot limits as well. Offset from the border of that rectangle whatever extra you need for border lineweight and your margins, we always used a full inch on the left for binding.

 

Warning If any objects were drawn before the plot area limits were set by setting the plot size it's origin will be shifted! While using layout to plot should plot the same it would complicate other things like something copied from another layout of the same plot size wouldn't paste where you'd expect it to.

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TimelesslyTiredYouth
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@soonhui wrote:

@paullimapa ,

 

Other forums aren't nearly as popular.

 

Right the Fusion Reddit Forum is definetely more popular, at least they can't touch that... right?

*Then again it is only one example to the many other forums that there are....

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