Happy New Year!

No I am not losing it (any more than usual) it is time for the Autodesk 2012 rollout! I had the chance to watch the webcast yesterday showing off all the new products. Seems to me Autodesk is moving away from selling customers software and trying to be more of a problem solver. To me this seems like a good thing, I just have to get the correct problem for them to solve. One of the things they have come to realize over the past few years is most companies need more than one solution. They are really moving into packaged solutions so you get things like, Autodesk Factory Design Suite: AutoCAD® Architecture, AutoCAD® Mechanical, Autodesk® Showcase®, Autodesk® Inventor® Professional
Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design, Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage, Autodesk® Vault, and Autodesk® Factory Design Utilities.

This gets companies with lots of bleed over between disciplines to have the tools they need. Now if they will just make a Waste Water Design Suite: AutoCAD MEP, Inventor, AutoCAD Civil 3D. This would follow a pipe from machine all the way out to the pond for treatment.

If you have not seen the new stuff they have done some cool new Interface features this year. When you right click you now get clouds! They call them Marking Menus but I think they look like speech bubbles from comic books. this gives you a quick and easy way to see the most command commands you may use. Stay tuned I will post some more step by step tips tonight…