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Have you heard of Sketchbook Pro?
It is the newest Tablet PC tool from Autodesk. You can sketch, annotate, and present your visual ideas anywhere on a Tablet PC or Wacom Tablet.
Here is more info from the Autodesk site.
And a free trial offer
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We have looked at how the end users might drive the development of the software, but what about the owners of our designs? Do those who inherit the creations we design actually have any input into the software tools that we use?
My Opinion - Yes they do. Sometimes they actually drive the whole [...]

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Users have always wanted a voice into the process of creating and refining new features that appear in future releases of software. This desire plays itself out in many ways, but does it actually impact the developers and what they focus their efforts on? The Users like to think so.
Having been associated with [...]

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Over the lengthy time I have spent being involved with CAD and now BIM, I have seen a lot of software development that has improved our processes. I have also seen development that did not work so well. Sometimes I ask myself “Who is really responsible for creating these things?” “Who’s idea was that? [...]

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There is a pretty exhaustive list of what you need before installing AutoCAD 2009 posted by Shaan Hurley.
Here is the crux of it…
32-bit AutoCAD 2009
Running under Windows XP:

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 operating system
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or AMD Athlon®, 2.2 GHz or greater
or
Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 1.6 GHz or greater
1 GB RAM
750 MB [...]

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A magnificent combination…
Get Free CAD Software (Student editions) - Make great designs - Win Prizes…
It’s the Autodesk Student Design Challenge
From the site:

You are the designers of the future. Go build something.
You sketch all over napkins and paper scraps. You think about how you could have designed the latest gadget just a little bit better. You [...]

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Having just moved to a AutoCAD Architecture 2008, I have joined the ranks of those who have troubles with the 2007 DWG format.
The first one is that UCSFOLLOW gets reset to “0″ every time we open a DWG file. This apparently has been going on for a while and is still not fixed. [...]

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I am always on the watch for software pirates… shiver me timbers…
Here is a short list from Baseline …
12 Companies Caught Stealing Software in 07
The Business Software Alliance is enforcing fines on real companies. Learn who they are and who has been caught.
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Autodesk Educational sites have great resources for students and teachers… some are free…
Here is some information from the Autodesk site that can get you started - if you are a student or teacher…

Higher Education
Advance the design education curriculum in your classroom with innovative teaching and learning resources from Autodesk and free* software for architecture, [...]

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