Looking for user input

Here’s your chance to talk directly to NVIDIA to provide valuable feedback about how we can help provide you with the functionality that you need.

We want to hear your thoughts!

We are looking to gather insight into how people use various Autodesk applications and their thoughts on graphic related workflows within the the new Autodesk suites. We’d love to contact a few of you for an informal discussion. If you are interested in sharing your opinions with us, please respond privately to me and tell us a little about yourself.

We are particularly interested in how users are using other Autodesk products together such as Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD within their project workflows.

Thanks for your time! We look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Sean Kilbride

Techinical Marketing Manager, NVIDIA

Sean: Mental telepathy does not seem to be working and you do not list any contact info above nor do you have private messages enabled. Just how does someone get in touch with you?

Sean: Mental telepathy does not seem to be working and you do not list any contact info above nor do you have private messages enabled. Just how does someone get in touch with you?

Whoops.

skilbride@nvidia.com

Mental telepathy does not seem to be working

You will need to get that repaired.

Usually, duplicate posts are confusing:

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?59420-Looking-for-user-input

I agree, but AutoCAD users and Inventor users do not always participate in both forums and we'd like to hear from as wide a variety of Autodesk users as possible. This is the chance for end users to provide feedback to help us create better products for their needs.

I agree, but AutoCAD users and Inventor users do not always participate in both forums and we'd like to hear from as wide a variety of Autodesk users as possible. This is the chance for end users to provide feedback to help us create better products for their needs.

Captain Obvious says:

"Yet you do it anyway!?"

I guess we're thinker than you dumb we are.... we get confused easily if a post wasn't made in our niche forum LoL.

(^^ From the guy with the fewest posts in ths thread ^^)

Hit the "What's New?" button, dude.

Sean: Mental telepathy does not seem to be working and you do not list any contact info above nor do you have private messages enabled. Just how does someone get in touch with you?

This reminds me of engineering students who need to interview a professional, and neglect to put forth the effort to make it simple® for those of us willing to respond. We end up having to ask them for what questions they want answered, then wait for them to respond, and on, and on, and on.

Sean, bro, if you want legitimate feedback then put forth some effort; Couple of suggestions (if I may):

• Start a "Poll" thread asking for specific questions about your product(s) - uses, issues, complaints, likes, dislikes, etc.
  
• Better yet, go to SurveyMonkey or the like, and post a thread here that links to that survey, instead of simply leaving us your email address (

Put simply, please don't ask us do your work for you (notice how you haven't received a single targeted response to your original post, yet?). Now, try again, and lets see some of that marketing "Skil", Mr. Skilbride. :wink:

Sean, bro, if you want legitimate feedback then put forth some effort; Couple of suggestions (if I may):

• Start a "Poll" thread asking for specific questions about your product(s) - uses, issues, complaints, likes, dislikes, etc.
  
• Better yet, go to SurveyMonkey or the like, and post a thread here that links to that survey, instead of simply leaving us your email address (

Put simply, please don't ask us do your work for you (notice how you haven't received a single targeted response to your original post, yet?). Now, try again, and lets see some of that marketing "Skil", Mr. Skilbride. :wink:

Apparently I've committed a forum faux pas here and if you consider that to be the case then I apologize for that. There are many ways we reach out to our end users and polls and forums are part of that, but forums are about community and it was in the spirit of that community that I reached you as forum members.

The problem with posting a poll or a survey is that you will get the answers to the questions that you ask, however you will not get feedback on the questions that you didn't ask or about what the questions are that you as end users think are important. This is a chance to talk to professional CAD users and have them say "You know you keep saying that your product is really good at X, but what I really need is help with Y ". That doesn't necessarily mean that we can turn around and make Y better, but it at least lets us know that its something that's important to be considered.

If this isn't a process that you want to be a part of, I can totally understand that as well, but we are hoping that some of you will be interested in helping us to create the types of products that can better fit your needs and way you work.

Sean

I would be willing to participate Sean. I am currently using a Quadro 4000 (recently purchased as a part of a new system).

Apparently I've committed a forum faux pas here and if you consider that to be the case then I apologize for that. There are many ways we reach out to our end users and polls and forums are part of that, but forums are about community and it was in the spirit of that community that I reached you as forum members.

 

The problem with posting a poll or a survey is that you will get the answers to the questions that you ask, however you will not get feedback on the questions that you didn't ask or about what the questions are that you as end users think are important. This is a chance to talk to professional CAD users and have them say "You know you keep saying that your product is really good at X, but what I really need is help with Y ". That doesn't necessarily mean that we can turn around and make Y better, but it at least lets us know that its something that's important to be considered.

 

If this isn't a process that you want to be a part of, I can totally understand that as well, but we are hoping that some of you will be interested in helping us to create the types of products that can better fit your needs and way you work.

 

 

Sean

No worries.

This community is made up of volunteers, mostly professionals at varying levels of the industries in which we perform. That said, I (as I cannot speak for others) don't often have the luxury of poking around, with a lot of back and forth, because I have a lot of work to do (thankfully). That's all. I enjoy helping others, and find it to be very rewarding.

Since I was (perhaps unexpectedly?) blunt with you earlier, I'll throw my $0.02 in for your consideration....

Right now I work on a Dell Latitude M4500, Intel i7 @ 2.66 Ghz, 4 GB RAM, Windows XP 32-Bit, with an NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M. I work in both Land Desktop 2009, and Civil 3D 2011 (in addition to Map, and Raster Design for each version). While I anticipate that when I get my new computer (Dell M6500 Intel i7 2.66 Ghz, 16 GB RAM, Windows 7 64-Bit, Not sure what video card comes with that yet?), many of the hiccups in my video display will no longer be an issue, I'm still experiencing them while on Win XP 32.

Specifically, when in Civil 3D 2011, manipulating the view (via view cube) to adjust the plan view 90 degrees for example, and also when in the Object Viewer, the 3D has serious lag (we're talking +/-30 seconds of regen time). That seems like a small number, but not when you're performing that action several times every 30 minutes. It's torturous, and frankly disappointing from a 1 GB Quadro card (in my humble opinion).

So there... hopefully that will help elicit other (more positive?) responses.

Cheers!

Typically we don't like members posting the same question in multiple areas of the forum because it just causes confusion and makes it difficult to follow the progression of the thread as we try to work through and solve the problem. But in this case, since you're just asking for feedback, I don't see any real issue with this thread being posted in two locations. But I do have to ask that you just leave it at that. Please don't start posting this request all over the forum.

No worries.

 

This community is made up of volunteers, mostly professionals at varying levels of the industries in which we perform. That said, I (as I cannot speak for others) don't often have the luxury of poking around, with a lot of back and forth, because I have a lot of work to do (thankfully). That's all. I enjoy helping others, and find it to be very rewarding.

Ah perhaps I was a bit unclear. I can understand people being hesitant to try and guess what information might be relevant to discuss on such a broad subject in a forum exchange. My goal here was simple to determine who might be interested in providing information to us at a time that would be convenient to them, in the form of a short 10-15min phone conversation. Sorry if I wasn't clear as to the desired intent.

Thanks for your input, the M6500 is one heck of a powerful laptop, however, Dell has replaced it with the new M6600. The M6600 is available with the Quadro 4000 which is based on the newer Fermi architecture and features 8x the number of processing cores as your current 880M. I currently have an older M6300 in my laptop bag and you just can't beat these mobile workstation systems.

Sean

Ah perhaps I was a bit unclear. I can understand people being hesitant to try and guess what information might be relevant to discuss on such a broad subject in a forum exchange. My goal here was simple to determine who might be interested in providing information to us at a time that would be convenient to them, in the form of a short 10-15min phone conversation. Sorry if I wasn't clear as to the desired intent.

My bad, Sean. I should've re-read your OP before making my post. LoL

If there's anything more I can contribute, I'd be happy to participate (next week, of course).

Dell has replaced it with the new M6600. The M6600 is available with the Quadro 4000 which is based on the newer Fermi architecture and features 8x the number of processing cores as your current 880M.

Now that you mentioned it, I think you're right... I remember my offices IT guy mentioning that last week. Thanks for the good info.

Big thanks to those who have responded, we are still looking for additional users to contact to provide user feedback. Either send me a PM or a direct email.

skilbride@nvidia.com