I have to admit to one thing: I really didn't like the economics classes I had in college. Maybe it was the fact that I was broke most of the time and the concept of massive economies the size of nations was beyond what I was able to understand at the time. Fast forward to 2013: I'm reading this book that a friend recommended to me called "Consumption Economics - The New Rules of Tech" by J.B. Wood, Todd Hewlin and Thomas Lah. More than just reading it, I'm understanding it - and believe me it makes a lot of sense.

Since AutoCAD’s loading of functions operates with the premise of “last loaded wins” (i.e. if you have 2 utilities loading with the exact same function name, the last one to be loaded will be the one AutoCAD will recognize when executing a utility), it is important to understand a few things about how and where AutoCAD looks for files to load.  When you open a new or existing drawing, AutoCAD is pre-programmed to look for certain support files in a certain order. Autodesk’s "AutoCAD" STARTUP FILE LOADING ORDER: 1)      acad2011.lsp (AutoCAD file) 2)      acad.lsp (User file...

Having been involved with various plant design software packages over the years, and watching the evolution of new platforms, features, buzzwords, etc., I constantly wonder “What’s next?” Over the years we’ve seen ADev Pro-Pipe and EDA Designer merge into Rebis AutoPlant, only next to be purchased by Bentley. CADCentre became AVEVA, PDS being outmoded and SmartPlant moving to the forefront. Recently, Intergraph purchased Coade and made a lot of CADWorx users very nervous. I won’t even go into the “Where are they now?” file populated by 4Front, UHP Process, CEA International, CADPipe,...