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Time for a change: An Autodesk Free One!

December 1, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Dynamite VSP Boom

It’s time for a little announcement and yes, you heard it here first… I’m officially Autodesk-free! And what a great feeling that is to not have to deal with an entity “where software goes to die” (can’t remember who first came up with that one but don’t mind me quoting you). Not having to deal with lacking and/or online only docs and the poor state of the Civil 3D API is not unlike wearing shoes that are too small and being able to them off… a feeling of relief, that is. Development has not been as fun and exciting as it was prior to Autodesk acquiring Dynamite VSP (and rebranding it as Civil View, integrated with 3ds max Design) and because of my 6000 mile relocation and in particular other plans I have for my business and the directions it should be heading into it seems about the right time to leave the Dynamite development arena so I can reclaim the time I normally spent on it and put it towards cool and new things. You can learn about the cool new things on ignyter.com and ignytion.com once I am (legally) able to unveil those. Which, granted, may be a while yet before I can, and will.

Filed Under: Personal, Software, Software Development Tagged With: 3AM Solutions, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Civil View, Dynamite VSP, Engineering, Software, Visualization

VS2010 Debugger and Autodesk Civil 3D 2012 breakpoint and no-source issues

April 17, 2011 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Debugging in Autodesk Civil 3D 2012 using .NET 4.0

If you are having trouble debugging your addons/plugins for Autodesk Civil 3D release 2012 you are certainly going to want to read this. The information presented also appears to be applicable to other products such as Autodesk Inventor 2012 and AutoCAD MEP. Probably even all AutoCAD 2012 based products. You probably found this post while searching for things relating to debugging your AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 addons and running into a problem where the Visual Studio 2010 debugger fails to hit your breakpoints and does not show you the source of your application that you are debugging.

Filed Under: Software Development Tagged With: 2012, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Debugger, Debugging, Source Code, Visual Studio, VS2010

Review of Mozy 2.0 for Mac OSX

February 14, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Mozy 2.0 for Mac OSX

A little while ago Sallie asked me to check out and test (well, review, really) Mozy 2.0 for Mac OSX. Since I had recently added Apple hardware (for initial experiences read this post)to the home office it made sense to give it a quick test. In retrospect it wasn’t a quick test but a rather long one because judging an online backup application requires some time to really look at what it’s doing and how it’s doing it.

Filed Under: Apple Software, Software Tagged With: Apple, Backup, Fileslinger, OSX, Review, Software

Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) Version 1.1.0.0 Available

July 12, 2010 by Stefan Didak 16 Comments
Windows Layout Manager 1.1.0.0 Update

For those of you who are using my Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) and who have asked for command line support will hopefully be happy to learn that version 1.1.0.0 has the ability to apply a layout by using the Windows Layout Manager via the command line and in batch files. There have also been a few minor bugfixes and some changes to the documentation. Nothing too earth shattering, really, but the command line support was really high on the list of requests.

Filed Under: Software, WiLMa, Windows Software Tagged With: .NET, Free, Freeware, Layout, Manager, Software, Updates, WiLMa, Windows

Autodesk Acquires Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM from 3AM Solutions

January 5, 2010 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
3am Solutions Dynamite VSP 4.0

SAN RAFAEL, California, Jan 5, 2010 – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM visualization software products and related assets. The products were purchased from 3AM Solutions, a UK-based privately owned technology company that develops visualization software for civil infrastructure. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Filed Under: Personal, Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Autodesk, Civil, Civil 3D, Dynamite, Engineering, Graphics, Press Release, Product, Software, Visualization

Rebuilding all or all out of date Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D 2010

November 12, 2009 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D

If you’ve ever needed to frequently rebuild multiple corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D because they are out of date but don’t want to go hit the rebuild menu item for each single corridor then here’s the solution. The following microscopic addon/plugin for Civil 3D 2010 allows you to rebuild all corridors or rebuild all out of date corridors, at once. Unzip the DLL to a location of your choice and you can use netload and load the Civil.RBC.dll (or if you want the functions available, hook it up in the acad2010.lsp file like this…

Filed Under: Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Addon, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Civil, Civil 3D, Engineering, Free, Freeware, Plugin, Software Development

MaxiVista version 4, revitalising multi-monitor heaven!

September 21, 2009 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
MaxiVista

As many of you already know, I’m a big fan of MaxiVista and that it’s a product that has proven to be essential to my home office setup. I’ve written about this wonderful application before and you can expect some more about it in the next weeks. Since most of the office is getting an overhaul (just operating systems, a few new systems, but not a complete overhaul in layout) I will be putting the new version of MaxiVista through some heavy usage. There are many crucial aspects to the new version 4, the biggest of which is no doubt the full support for 64-bit (the virtual display drivers installed by MaxiVista 4 are digitally signed) and WDDM graphics cards.

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: MaxiVista, Microsoft, Monitors, Multi-Monitor, Network, Screens, Software, Windows

StarWind Server: SAN Made Simple

September 11, 2009 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
StarWind iSCSI Storage Virtualization

I have very little need for a SAN (Storage Area Network), because every single system is already loaded up with many terabytes of fast RAID storage. A SAN, regardless of the size, speed, and cost, would always be slower than the local storage of each system. However, if I wanted to centralize the storage for the systems in the network, whereby the systems themselves were smaller, less top-heavy computers, I would certainly be looking at something like StarWind Server or StarWind Enterprise Server (probably the latter because I like the replication features).

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: iSCSI, RAID, Review, SAN, Servers, Software, StarWind, Storage, Virtualization, Visualization, Windows

Windows 7, booting from VHD, converting between VHD and VMDK

September 9, 2009 by Stefan Didak 3 Comments
Harddisk

Virtual Machines are great. I rely on them for my work every day and most of my home office network depends on several Virtual Machines (VM’s) for the core infrastructure (SMTP, DNS, AD, backup management, centralized automation, build farms, continuous integration, etc.) but sometimes you just want the abstraction and ease of use of a Virtual Machine while having full support of the host’s hardware (graphics cards, drivers, etc.) and often you don’t want to mess around with the, often complex or entangled, multi-boot scenarios. If you’re in need of that, Windows 7 (and 2008 Server R2) and their native support for Virtual Harddisks (VHD’s) will come in extremely handy. Especially now that you can install and boot your system from a VHD, directly. The following is a bit of a quick start to using VHD’s, some additional details on how I’ve been using them, and a quick look at Starwind’s free V2V conversion application.

Filed Under: Lengthy, Software, Windows Software Tagged With: Booting, OS, StarWind, Storage, VHD, Virtualization, VMDK, Windows

Bye Bye Synergy, Hello Input Director!

September 8, 2009 by Stefan Didak 16 Comments
Stefan Didak Home Office Version 6

There are numerous websites and blogs out there that highlight Synergy while linking to my site and the pictures of my home office as an example. I am happy that I’ve been able to point out this incredibly useful software keyboard/mouse switch but the time has come to start pointing out the utility that is eclipsing Synergy and that tool is called Input Director. Development of Synergy has been on a long hiatus since April 2006 and there’s no sign of a new version. Combined with my experiences where Synergy randomly stops working when a Windows 7 slave system is part of the configuration has led me to give Input Director a try.

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: Experience, Free, Freeware, Input Director, KVM, Multi-Monitor, Review, Software, Synergy, Windows
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