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January/February 2011 AUGIWorld Magazine - Now Available for Download

AUGI is pleased to announce that the latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download.

What is Autodesk QTO? Judah Jackson describes the best little program you aren't using!

Click Here to download the AUGIWorld January/February 2011 issue!

 

Also in this issue of AUGIWorld:

Find out what is in store with an AUGIWorld Q&A with the new AUGI President.

Big Room Drawing Health, a CAD management topic by Darren Young on proper AutoCAD DWG maintenance.

Bootstrap Your AutoCAD Deployments by R. Robert Bell goes into detail for custom AutoCAD deployments.

A BIM-less World by Christopher Fugitt dives right into visualization in Civil 3D and Navisworks.

The Art of Sharing with eTransmit by Jeff Bartels shows how easy it is to share your DWGs in AutoCAD.

One Man Shop: Consulting vs. Freelancing, Part Two, by Tom Cipolla takes a fresh look at consulting work.

Planned Plotting by Beth Powell returns to cover the main purpose of using AutoCAD - plotting!

AutoCAD’s Annotative by Ron Lohan encourages you to try something new, for a change!

What’s the Point of this Roof? by Felix Gonzalez puts a cap on it using Revit Architecture.

Wood Framing Walls by Phil Russo breaks down doing wood in Revit Structure.

Own the Interface by Todd Shackelford puts in you in control of your own AutoCAD ribbon.

Spaces in AutoCAD Architecture by Melinda Heavrin divides and conquers spaces in ACA!

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AUGI.com online...and so are the old forums!

The website has been restored with the "old" vBulletin forum system as well. Close to 1million posts are back, exactly where they were, and any and all posts referencing them since the beginning in 2003 should hit their mark.

For the moment the URL to the ExpressionEngine forums can still be found if you need. You cannot post there anymore. In short order the content will be migrated and merged with the vB forums.

It should be noted that you are encouraged to totally clean your AUGI related "cookies" to aid in a successful login. See a recent BLAUGI post for more specifics. Visit www.augi.com for full access.

AUGI.com Offline

AUGI has placed our main site in maintenance mode to enable the restoration of our prior forums at some time on Monday, Jan 10th, 2010 EST US.  At the end of this maintenance period we plan to put the entire site back online and also have the AUGI Forum “beta” go live.  We do not have an exact time when that will happen.

We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.  Thank you for your patience.

Old AUGI Forums Rise Again

The old vBulletin based AUGI Forums are poised to come back online! In order to properly ensure all functionality and system controls are in place we will be doing this via a “beta” rollout. Just as with any other beta, you may find bugs which should be referred to moderators@augi.com as quickly as possible.

A few notes about the “beta” period: - We are planning to enable the beta forums on Monday, Jan 10th, 2010. The time has not been set. When the “beta” forums go live, the EE forums will be closed for new posts/replies.

- The forum location will be found as before at http://forums.augi.com.

- Due to changes in the login credentials you may need to clear your browser “cookies” and “cache” or “temporary internet files” to login successfully.

- AUGI.com website and forum logins are now unified and you may be required to logout and login at http://www.augi.com. All other forms of access such as favorites or search results should not be used as they may not log you in.

- The primary purpose for designating this as “beta” is to validate functionality, sync login/password and merge the existing ExpressionEngine forum content into vBulletin. Therefore, you will not notice a “final” version rollout, just improvements being made.

PS: Although the AUGI webteam and moderators felt we could have gone live Jan 7th, as originally posted, doing so on a Friday just didn’t make a lot of sense. Everyone is better served by waiting until Monday when technical staff can be at the ready for any problems that may arise.