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Steve’s BLADE presentation at the BricsCAD New Zealand and Australia Roadshow

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Sofoco (Australia) and CAD Concepts (New Zealand) recently ran a series of seminars throughout Australasia demonstrating BricsCAD. I attended the last of these in Brisbane on April 19 and gave a presentation about BricsCAD’s LISP, with reference to AutoCAD compatibility and the tools available to CAD Managers and developers, including BLADE. The talk was aimed at anybody who is writing or maintaining LISP code for AutoCAD or BricsCAD.

I had the just-before-lunch slot, which is never desirable for a presenter. People are dozing off and/or bursting to go to the toilet, and time adjustments have to be made if earlier presentations run over. I started 10 minutes late and therefore had to remove the demonstration part of the presentation on the fly, but I had planned to allow for that eventuality. It’s been a while since I have presented like this before an audience so I was a bit rusty and it wasn’t as free-flowing as I would have liked. Too many ‘erms’!

Steve’s invisible accordion is impressively large

I did manage to keep the whole audience in their seats until the end, though, so that’s something. Maybe the fact that I was waving a sword around had something to do with it.

Here’s my video, which is 21 minutes long. The sound is a bit muffled and my accent is Australian, so you might want to turn on subtitles using the CC option in the YouTube player.

Disclosure: the organisers covered part of my expenses.

Steve at the BricsCAD New Zealand and Australia Roadshow

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Sofoco (Australia) and CAD Concepts (New Zealand) are currently running a series of seminars throughout Australasia demonstrating BricsCAD.

Here are the dates and locations:

Auckland – 9 April 2018, Jet Park Hotel and Conference Centre
Christchurch – 11 April 2018, Christchurch Community House
Melbourne – 17 April 2018, Airport Motel and Convention Centre
Sydney – 18 April 2018, Stamford Plaza Sydney Airport
Brisbane – 19 April 2018, Royal on the Park

Each seminar is in two parts. The morning session is for leaders and decision makers and the the afternoon is less structured and goes into more details, with informal discussions, questions and answers and one-on-one sessions. There will be many short presentations from various presenters to demonstrate the different things that BricsCAD is capable of, with or without third party add-ons.

I’ll be travelling to the Brisbane show. I’ll be there for the whole day but will be doing a brief presentation about BricsCAD’s LISP, with reference to AutoCAD compatibility and the tools available to CAD Managers and developers, including BLADE.

I have experience not only in developing using LISP in AutoCAD and BricsCAD, but also in transitioning from one to the other in a comprehensively modified custom environment. I hope to be of some assistance to CAD Managers and users who are considering such a move. I believe there are still seats available.

Disclosure: the organisers will be covering part of my expenses.