My Star Wars Lego Dark Falcon (a derivative of the Millenium Falcon) has pride of place in The Workshop (my office) on its Wicked Bricks display stand. As those of you know me well, I love my Lego, and I am a big Star Wars fan. Well, as of now, I am a big HP […]
Not Just CAD I did start this as a LinkedIn post, but then realised that it needed to be more than that, so here goes…. Not Just CAD (affectionately known as NJC) is building slowly in the background. Its origins were formed way back in the Blogger.com days, when I started a very simple blog […]
Some might say that being a member of the Autodesk Expert Elite (EE) program involves answering and solving user questions in the Autodesk forums and wearing an EE-branded jacket at conferences such as Autodesk University (AU). Nope. It is WAY more than that. As an EE, you are an ambassador for Autodesk. You are an […]
After 37 years of using AutoCAD (yes, I’m showing my age, LOL), I still get that childlike excitement when a new AutoCAD release comes out. Even when I had to do network deployments of 25 workstations or more, finding out what was new and how it could improve AutoCAD workflows was always fun. As I […]
2024 was not a good year for me. For those of you who don’t know, my father was involved in a severe car crash in November 2023 while I was at AU2023 in Las Vegas, just before I taught an AutoCAD class that was inspired by his ‘shipshape’ philosophy towards everything in life. In my […]
A good friend, colleague, and mentor of mine recently commented in an email thread that with all the focus on technology, many fail to realise that it is the people who are our most important asset. I could not agree more. With all the AI, machine learning, and automation out there, we still need real […]
Welcome to Autodesk University 2024 (AU2024)! Whether you’re a first-timer or a seasoned pro, this guide will help you navigate the exciting, enriching, and sometimes overwhelming experience that is AU. As a veteran AU attendee, speaker, and mentor since 2006, I have attended AU in various locations: some great, some not. I have built up […]
Another version of AutoCAD has arrived; yes, it has new stuff. Over the decades, AutoCAD has evolved dramatically from the MS-DOS version I started on, with its monochromatic screen, tablet, and puck. It is now a highly capable drafting and modelling application with mobile and web apps. It talks to the cloud and uses machine […]
Autodesk recently released its 2023 State of Design & Make report. It made for some incredible reading, and that, combined with the data in the report, describes exactly where we are at with Design & Make in the world right now. One of my fellow Autodesk Community Voices authors, Shelby L. Smith, wrote a blog […]
Yes. It’s been a minute, hasn’t it? I have been out of the loop for a while. I needed some well-earned downtime not stressing about the next blog post, plus the day-to-day has been mad busy, working for the likes of LinkedIn Learning, Autodesk, and numerous other companies and organisations. I realised that I needed […]