Whether you have recently upgraded to AutoCAD 2009 or are on the process of deciding to upgrade or not, you might find the following links of interest:
New Features Workshop (NFW) - The New Features Workshop is one of the first screens that you encounter when you first install AutoCAD, but often it gets overlooked and turned off right away. If you have installed AutoCAD 2009, you can access the NFW by doing the following:
- Press F1 while in AutoCAD.
- In the AutoCAD 2009 Help window, on the right pane, click the New Features Workshop link under the General Information section.
- If prompted with a message box to click Yes or No, click Yes. The message warns you that the ActiveX control might be unsafe. The ActiveX control that is trying to be displayed on the page for the NFW is Adobe's Flash plug-in. Clicking No will cause the NFW to not launch.
If you do not have AutoCAD 2009 installed yet, it's a little hard to access the NFW from inside of AutoCAD. If you do not have access to the NFW because AutoCAD is not installed, you can view the web based version on autodesk.com by clicking the following URL and then clicking on the New Features Workshop link.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=8446323
Tutorials - Whenever a new feature is introduced, you often don't have time to explore the feature right away or fully understand how you might go about using a new feature. Tutorials can help explain how to use a feature in a step-by-step approach. There are currently 19 tutorials on autodesk.com that apply to AutoCAD 2009. These tutorials cover many of the new features that have been introduced with this release, such as the ribbon, ViewCube, SteeringWheels, Action Recorder and many others. To access the tutorial site, click the following URL (you do not need AutoCAD 2009 to view the tutorials but will need AutoCAD 2009 to complete them though).
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=10947339&linkID=9240615
Sincerely,
Lee
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