Lynn Allen has a pet goat named “Leno. Since I had the special opportunity to visit with Jay Leno last weekend in Burbank California, I asked him to autograph the photo of Lynn’s goat named “leno”. I just did not mention to Jay that she also has a goat named “Conan”.

Word to the Wise: Workspaces. Workspace definition (per the Help menu): Workspaces are sets of menus, toolbars, palettes, and ribbon control panels that are grouped and organized so that you can work in a custom, task-oriented drawing environment.

The catchy new AutoCAD for Mac video available on Autodesk.com and YouTube is now hosted on my blog for those unable to view Flash or YouTube videos.

Last night in the Autodesk Gallery at One Market there was a gathering of press, Autodesk customers, Autodesk employees, and Apple employees to celebrate the new products that were announced. AutoCAD for Mac A native 64bit Mac application. AutoCAD WS for the Apple iOS devices such as iPad, iPhone ,iPod.

AutoCAD for Mac Built for Mac OS X Yes, a native Mac AutoCAD application utilizing the Mac experience, but still being the tried and true AutoCAD. Now AutoCAD users have a choice of two great platforms Windows and Mac to get their native AutoCAD DWG.

I received the following question today while in my hotel room in LA and wanted to write a blog post with images to make the solution more clear, and perhaps assist others with the same question. “My background in paper space is white with color lines, I want change color lines to black lines, I did once but is impossible to remember how I did it.” What we want to do is change the Layouts Plot Style to black and white which is “monochrome”, and then select the option to show the Layout with the applied plot Style just as it will plot.

Visit the new AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor and other pages. They are available in English now, with additional languages coming.

If you are located in the San Francisco, Sacramento or Seattle areas, you have a rare opportunity to test drive some new features in AutoCAD and contribute your feedback to future releases.

Australian Bill Adams (http://blads.blogspot.com/) and @blads on Twitter wished this Between the Lines blog a happy 7th year in a most remarkable way. He recreated my Canon 5D camera in chocolate.

If you work intensively in AutoCAD 3D modeling, you probably already familiar with sub object. You can modify objects quickly and easily using vertexes. Gizmo in AutoCAD is very helpful. It is very easy to create 3D models in AutoCAD now. But have you used sub objects in 2D drawing?

The Update 1 (aka Service Pack) to AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011 are now available for download. This update addresses several defects and issues reported by customers, product support, and Customer Error Reporting “CER” data.

Volker Joseph announced the new 64bit 23D DWF Writer on the Beyond the Paper Blog. We have had several requests for this so that people can create/print a DWF from several applications on the 64bit platform.

This is a perfect post for a Monday morning. Each day the number of DWG, RVT, and IAM files grows perhaps by hundreds of thousand, perhaps millions. The effort to locate a specific file of yours becomes more challenging as the number grows within your computer or network. Autodesk Labs Project Snap helps you instantly find your files without the need to implement some large document management system.

On this day in 2003, Between the Lines blog was born.

We are leaving the triple digits in the countdown, and registration is growing near. http://au.autodesk.com/?nd=event2010

For all you veteran AutoCAD users out there who like to TYPE most of your commands (and want to type C to launch Copy), this is for you. How to Modify Your Command Aliases 1.. On the Manage tab >Customization panel, click Edit Aliases to open the file ACAD.PGP in the Windows Notepad.

With Colleges and Universities getting ready to get back to a full steam, check out the Autodesk Dorm Design Contest for a chance to win a back to school shopping spree at Target. This is for US residents.

I am catching up on email and other tasks after a week of travel and discovered some cool AutoCAD Freestyle news and had to give it a try as I am so easily distracted. I just confirmed there is a new trial version of AutoCAD Freestyle that adds a Sketch Overlay features with options for pen, pencil, brushes, and airbrush to add even more creativity and splash to your drawings.

I spent this week visiting a wide variety of Autodesk customers from Chicago to Virginia, and DC, and New Jersey. It is always a pleasure and learning experience for me to speak directly with customers using our products in their offices about what is going well, and more importantly what is not.

Go ask your AutoCAD question to the AutoCAD Exchange Expert of the Week Donnie Gladfelter from August 9 to August 13 2010.