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Top 20 posts of 2016

By Steve Johnson 18 January 2017, 8:49 pm 18 January 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"1

According to Jetpack site statistics, these were the most viewed posts on this blog of 2016. Many of them are from previous years. Note that these stats began being collected in May when the blog became active again so the list doesn’t cover the entire year. AutoCAD 2012 – Putting things back to “normal” (April 2011) AutoCAD 2011 – Putting things back to “normal” (March 2010) Disaster in progress – Autodesk’s all-rental plans are failing (June 2016) Why AutoCAD for Mac is a bad idea (May 2009) AutoCAD 2017 – Putting things back to “normal” (July 2016) What is loaded …

Autodesk, Customer Service, Fail, Tip, Web Stuff, Win

How to download Autodesk software without the Akamai download manager

By Steve Johnson 29 October 2016, 11:12 am 28 March 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"4

Note: this post is now out of date. AVA no longer provides the facility mentioned here. Instead, it tries (and fails) to be clever. For reasons beyond my understanding, Autodesk chooses to make life difficult for customers and prospective customers who want to download its products by imposing the use of a download manager (DLM) by Akamai. You really don’t want to let such a thing loose on your system even if it works, for reasons that have been explained in previous posts. Until a couple of years ago, Autodesk allowed prospective customers to get at a direct download link …

Autodesk, Customer Service, Nostalgia, Rant, Spin, Subscription

Autodesk confirms outrageous upgrade price increase

By Steve Johnson 19 October 2012, 12:27 pm 19 October 2012 itemprop="discussionURL"6

As I indicated in May, Autodesk will be increasing the cost of upgrades to 70% of the full retail cost of a new license. This renders it totally pointless upgrading Autodesk software at all, which is obviously Autodesk’s intention. This change probably won’t affect many people, as those who have chosen to stick with Autodesk despite everything have already been effectively forced onto Subscription. Anyway, here’s the confirmation from Autodesk: In early 2013 Autodesk will simplify the current upgrade pricing model, which may affect pricing and/or eligibility for upgrades. Autodesk is providing advance notice to help ease the transition and …

AutoCAD LT, Autodesk, Fail, Rant, Spin

More Autodesk deception over LT productivity study

By Steve Johnson 25 August 2010, 1:23 pm 25 August 2010 itemprop="discussionURL"4

Following on from the AutoCAD 2011 productivity study I critiqued earlier, there is now an LT version. Do the same credibility problems apply to this study too? Yes, and then some. In addition to the drawings and operations being deliberately hand-picked to demonstrate new features, no direct comparison is performed at all between the two releases on the same platforms. Every single quoted “productivity improvement” figure includes, free of charge, three years of hardware and operating system progress and a more upmarket graphics card. If you read business “news” sources that just reprint press releases, such as this Yahoo! Finance one …