25 May 2010

Call for Participants for AutoCAD Migration study

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear AutoCAD User!

AutoCAD Product Design & Usability Team is looking for participants for the study.
Topic: focus on Migration process, Migration tool and results of migration.

Our Goal
To gain the most complete understanding about problems and requests AutoCAD users may have while migrating their settings and customization from a previous release of AutoCAD.

Who Should Participate?
We are looking for individual contributors or CAD managers with small number of seats (less than 5- either standalone or multi-seat standalone) with unsatisfying experience using Migration tool to migrate settings from a previous version of AutoCAD.

How the Study will be Conducted?
We will schedule ~1 h interview session with you (remotely) and discuss your experience with migration, results you expected, outcome you’ve got.

When?
We are planning research between May 27 and June 2, 2010.

How To Sign Up?
Please submit qualification data and indicate your availability here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MigrationSignUp

Please contact elena.fadeeva@autodesk.com if you have any questions.

Thanks for your help!
AutoCAD Product Design&Usability Group
Autodesk, Inc

18 May 2010

Vote Now for Your Favorite AU 2010 Class Proposals!

Here is your chance to influence which classes will be offered at AU this year. Help us select from the large number of topics submitted by the international AU community. It only takes a few minutes to vote for those classes that you want to see offered.

You can vote on a maximum of 20 classes. Use caution when voting. Once a vote is submitted, you cannot change it.

To vote for your favorite classes:
1. Go to Autodesk University Class Voting
2. Sign in to the AU website using your AU username and password. This is the same account you use to access AU online classes and register for the AU conference or AU Virtual.
3. Search for topics that might interest you. You can filter by track, audience expertise, class type, software product, language, and speaker.
4. Click on a class to get more information about the class or to vote for the class.
5. In the Vote Now drop-down list, select one of the voting choices.
6. Click Submit Vote.

Voting ends Friday, May 21.

The AU Team
Email: autodeskuniversity@autodeskevents.com
Phone: 888-371-1722 (toll-free in the United States) or +1 415-446-7717
Fax: 415-507-1480
Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)

11 May 2010

Autodesk Survey: AutoCAD Array

Sign Up for the Study!
We are looking for participants for the remote study on AutoCAD Array.

Who Are We Looking For?

General AutoCAD users of any discipline (latest release or older versions of AutoCAD), who are familiar with the Array command and use grips to edit their drawings.
Optional/additional requirements:
• Users that are familiar with parametric drawing (geometric and dimensional constraints in AutoCAD)
• Users familiar with 3D
• Familiar with the DIVIDE and MEASURE commands.

When?
We are planning to conduct this study the week of May 17th (we will conduct 8 sessions).


Compensation
We will be sending you a $30 Amazon Gift Certificate as a token of thanks for the 60 min remote session.

How to Participate?
All sessions are remote, via the GoToMeeting/phone.

If you are interested in participating, please check all times that you are available (Pacific Time, USA):

Autodesk: Revit API Wishlist Survey, Spring 2010

Dear Developer,

We would like your help prioritizing API enhancements for future releases of Autodesk Revit. Based on your input today, we will publish back to you the "Revit API Wish List" that our engineering team will be considering when prioritizing their Revit API development efforts. Help us help you by completing this survey.

Click HERE to begin.

05 May 2010

Attention Writers!

Interested in sharing your mad CAD skills with the world? Do so in a magazine! Just contact me if you are interested in writing in AUGI publications! It is a great way to get some recognition and help out your fellow users too!