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Menu and widgets Home About Me Owen Wengerd Search for: Recent Comments Peter2 on ArxDbg Utility owenwengerd on ArxDbg Utility Peter2 on ArxDbg Utility Autocad su Mac: beta privata in arrivo - Melablog on AutoCAD for Mac Jhon on Building a commercial grade lisp plugin installer in 5 easy steps amir on Building a commercial grade lisp plugin installer in 5 easy steps owenwengerd on Automatic LISP Loading owenwengerd on Building a commercial grade lisp plugin installer in 5 easy steps Robert Good on Bones, clones, and cyclones 牧心 on Automatic LISP Loading Tags Adobe AU 2006 AU 2007 AU 2008 AutoCAD AutoCAD LT Autodesk Bricscad BRX c++ CAD Industry CADLock CADVault cloud CMS digital signature encryption file formats internet legal Linux lisp Mac ManuSoft marketing Microsoft nostalgia ObjectARX ODA offline files OpenDCL performance Periscope programming QuikPik RoboCache security social SolidWorks SuperPurge tool Visual Studio Windows ZRX ZWCAD Categories Business (49) Personal (10) Philosophy (29) Technical (87) Archives November 2018 March 2017 November 2016 July 2015 March 2015 December 2014 November 2014 August 2014 March 2014 February 2014 November 2013 April 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 August 2012 March 2012 October 2011 August 2011 June 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 September 2007 August 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 January 2007 December 2006 Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org Bones, clones, and cyclones My blogging has taken a nosedive in recent years, but I’m happy to report that I am doing great. I’ve been 100% focused on making sure there’s a viable alternative DWG platform for all you lost, lonely, and depressed CAD users out there. I’m going to keep this short and sweet, because as I write this I am still 100% focused on the task: putting finishing touches on BricsCAD V19 to be released soon”. I’ll get straight to the point. Yes, Bricsys has been acquired by Hexagon , but you would hardly know this if you worked inside Bricsys. Inside the company, the same people are doing the same work today that they were doing last month. Literally nothing has changed, at least not yet. Bricsys will change, yes, and nobody can be sure just how it will change, but I assure you that my focus will not change. Look, the AutoCAD writing is on the wall. Life in the nursing home has not been kind to AutoCAD, and things are only going to get worse as Autodesk turns up the morphine drip. I’ve said for years that BricsCAD is the best alternative, and today it is more true than ever. To steal a line from Bricsys CEO Erik de Keyser, BricsCAD is not a clone, but a cyclone! Posted on 2018-11-07 2018-11-07 Categories Business , Technical Tags AutoCAD , Bricscad , CAD Industry 2 Comments on Bones, clones, and cyclones Turning off InfoCenter in AutoCAD Are you looking for a way to turn off the annoying InfoCenter that slows down (or sometimes locks up) your AutoCAD? Of course you are! Hop on over to the ManuSoft Freebies page and install AcadInfoCenterOff.msi, the most popular ManuSoft download of all time. 2021-03-23: Now updated with support for AutoCAD 2022! Posted on 2017-03-21 2021-03-23 Categories Technical Tags AutoCAD , AutoCAD LT , Autodesk , performance 1 Comment on Turning off InfoCenter in AutoCAD LspLoad updated for BricsCAD 17 and ZWCAD 2017 I have updated the automatic lisp loader modules (LspLoad.zip on my freebies page ) to support BricsCAD V17 and ZWCAD 2017. Note that the source code for LspLoad is also available . Posted on 2016-11-04 Categories Technical Tags Bricscad , BRX , lisp , programming , ZRX , ZWCAD Leave a comment on LspLoad updated for BricsCAD 17 and ZWCAD 2017 Service Interruptus The ManuSoft web server has been humming along steadily for the last 7 years on an old Compaq server running Windows 2008. You may have noticed that it’s currently offline. Actually the server is still humming along just fine – it’s just that nobody can connect to it. I had some connections with the IT guy at a local printing business, and for practically no cost I had been using two static IP addresses over their T1 connection. Unfortunately the IT guy has since moved on, leaving nobody there with the ability to manage my connection. My sweet deal was destined to collapse eventually. That’s exactly what happened last week when they had some configuration changes made to their network. I’ve now moved this blog to the cloud (Windows Azure), and I will be moving the rest of the services to the cloud over the next week or two. Wish me luck! Posted on 2015-07-07 2015-07-07 Categories Business , Technical Tags cloud , internet , ManuSoft , Windows 1 Comment on Service Interruptus Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Although my blog has become relatively stagnant, the rest of my life has been changing — and there are even bigger changes ahead. My children have been growing into adulthood one by one, and my parenting time has been shrinking as a result. To take up the slack, I bought a bike a few years ago and started riding it on the many local bike trails. Initially cycling was a way to get healthy and enjoy the outdoors, but it has turned into much more. Riding a bike is great exercise, but it’s also a fantastic social activity when you do it with friends, and I have made many new friends in the very large and growing cycling community here in Ohio. The last few years I’ve also been racing my bike competitively in the many amateur bicycle races held during the spring and summer. I never played organized sports as a kid, so this has given me an avenue to explore an unfamiliar side of myself. While cycling has changed my life in many ways, even bigger personal changes are on the horizon. I’ve been divorced (or as I often say, married to my bike”) for many years, but even that will be changing later this year — unless she changes her mind before we seal the deal. In addition to the many personal changes, I’m also making some professional changes. I’ve accepted a contract offer to join the software development team of Belgium based Bricsys , maker of BricsCAD. I will continue my philanthropic work, including work on the OpenDCL project and my participation in online ObjectARX, AutoLISP, and C++ programming forums. I will continue maintaining and supporting ManuSoft software products. I will even continue blogging here and writing for upFront.eZine , but maybe my focus will shift a bit. I’m looking forward to all these new challenges, and excited to see where this new road leads. Thank you for travelling with me! Posted on 2015-03-15 Categories Business , Personal , Philosophy Tags Bricscad , Bricsys , ManuSoft , OpenDCL , programming 2 Comments on Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Posts navigation Page 1 Page 2 … Page 27 Next page Proudly powered by...