AutoCAD 2016 launches today (first customer ship date)!

What can you expect?

Well. according to our friends at Synergis Engineeering Design Solutions, Autodesk addressed many of the AUGI wishlist items submitted by users, including:

Wanting to save a view as an image for reports?

While I typically use a premium screen capture and image annotation tool on a daily basis. I’ll suggest anyone to try this tip to take higher quality image shots within Revit as a Render image. It will store the image in the Revit Project Browser, after which the image view in Revit is exported to a standalone file for creating reports.

Do you love AutoCAD but could use a few more tricks up your sleeve, such as flattening a drawing and copying and pasting exact details? Check out these five quick-and-easy AutoCAD video tips, and stay tuned for more from Line//Shape//Space’s best-of-video content series.

Buildings today have a lot of data associated with them—from Google earth images to floorplans, photos and automated building systems. The question becomes: How do you apply all this information throughout the building lifecycle to reduce costs and redundancy in the design, build and manage process?

That's the focus of a series of upcoming workshops hosted by IMAGINiT Technologies, DLT Solutions, and Archibus coming to a city near you during the month of March.

On March 13, 2015, Autodesk will be retiring Subscription Center and directing you to the newly enhanced Autodesk Account, a personalized and easy-to-use portal.

Autodesk Account gives you the ability to effectively track and manage all of your Autodesk product licenses, services, and user benefits through a single personalized portal.

If you're an Autodesk Subscription customer then you probably already know, but here's your final reminder, the Subscription Center will be retired on March 13, 2015.

In its place, customers will be redirected to the newly enhanced Autodesk Account where you'll be able to manage all your products, services and Subscription benefits in one place. This personalized and easy-to-use portal, is also your one-stop for downloading product updates and enhancements.

Safety on the job-site is often the first concern for many of the contractors we speak to. On-site injuries are an expensive risk to their projects, so reducing these risks is one of the most popular reasons that firms employ Building Information Modeling (BIM).

If there’s one certainty in the world of CAD and 3D design software, it’s change. New tools, new features, new use cases. Keeping up isn’t easy, but we’ve got you covered.

Meet Acronym Online – our sister blog dedicated to CAD and 3D design professionals in the public sector.

With contributions from the pros including Lynn Allen, The CAD Geek (aka Donnie Gladfelter), and more, Acronym Online is written with the needs of government readers in mind.

Who doesn’t love a freebie! But what about a freebie that can actually help you make better decisions about your technology purchases – whether you’re a CIO, program manager, IT manager or end user.

DLT has assembled a large selection of eBooks that set about to demystify technology concepts – from cloud computing to continuous monitoring, and more. We help you go beyond lofty concepts and get down to the nitty gritty of how your agency can find and make the best of its investments.

Do you love AutoCAD but feel like it needs to know its boundaries? Think that sometimes it’s in a completely different dimension than you? Here are some quick-and-easy AutoCAD tips and tricks in Line//Shape//Space’s best-of-video content Series.