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Welcome back to CADTutor. The site has been unavailable for 10 days, that's the longest period of down-time since the site began over 10 years ago. Although things look pretty similar round here,...
Dear Friends, CADTutor is now open for business again. I have worked hard over the last 5 days to ensure that the site is more secure than before. Obviously, I can't guarantee absolute security...
Dear CADTutor Community, It's now nearly 6 years since the current version of this website was implemented (version 4) and it's now due for for an overhaul and a freshen-up and possibly even a new...
Dear All, we've seen an increase in spam on this forum over the last few days and so we have implemented a system of moderation for posts by new members. Usually, the situation improves once such a...
Hello everyone, If you're not already aware, we now have a "Work in Progress" section located in the Community area of the forum: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?84-Work-In-Progress...
The observant among you will have noticed that CADTutor now displays a cookie consent strip at the bottom of the screen. This has been added to comply with European privacy legislation and with...
Over the last week or so I've been updating some more of Kenny Ramage's old tutorials at AfraLISP. There are now 116 updated tutorials. Today I just completed an AutoCAD tutorial using a (little...
The CADTutor forum will close for a short while this evening while we migrate to a new cloud server platform. Downtime may be an hour, depending on how the migration goes. The forum will close...
Today is the official First Customer Ship day for AutoCAD 2016 and the AutoCAD 2016 vertical products. I logged into my Autodesk account this morning, and there it was, ready for download! Take...
As some of you will know, this site has an FAQ section where commonly asked questions about AutoCAD are given model answers so that beginners or others can be refferred to these rather than members...
Or am I seeing things? :? Bats! Bats! Everywhere bats! :shock:
Earlier this week, site owner of AfraLisp (Kenny Ramage) and I came to a mutually satisfactory arrangement, whereby the site ownership was transferred to me. The future of AfraLisp has been...
As we're now into the festive season, I thought it only right to sprinkle a little seasonal cheer here at CADTutor, so you will see some subtle snowflakes in the background to the forum. Of course,...
Anyone else having a problem adding tags? I can't seem to add any type of tag by selecting the icons nor the insert link, the other icons work. I'm using IE 11 browser, but everything works...
The forum and site will be down for a short while after 22.00 GMT today. This is for a server upgrade which requires the server to be powered down. I don't expect this to take more than 30 minutes.
Many apologies for the inconvenience caused by the forum outage today. It seems that it has been down for around 17 hours and this was caused by a server reboot, which corrupted a database table. All...
The forum will be closed for approximately 2 hours tomorrow, Thursday 28th March from 7.30pm GMT. This is so that CADTutor can be moved to a new, faster server. The rest of the CADTutor site will...
Search and any function using search (New Posts) is currently broken. This seems to be a compatibility problem with this version of vBulletin and the version of PHP installed on the new server. I'm...
Apologies for the downtime this morning. This was due to DNS problems at our hosting company.
:xmas: Well, the festive season is fast aproaching and this weekend I went up into the loft, brought down and dusted off the CADTutor decorations. I hope I didn't go over the top - here's a preview....
As per the announcement, the CADTutor server will be down for a few hours this week between 10pm GMT on Thursday, 24th November and 6am GMT on Friday, 25th November. During this period, the site...
I noticed recently that some of you are linking to external smilies (perhaps because the range here at CADTutor is too limited - no BEER smiley for example). So I thought I should add some new...
Discipline details in your profile A new feature has been added to the forum that we hope will make it easier for questions to be answered more accurately. You may have noticed that some posts...
AutoCAD Productivity Live The first ever live CADTutor event has just been launched and I'm hoping to meet some of you "in the flesh" on Tuesday, 12th April 2011 at Central Saint Martins...
I've had a couple of reports of people not being able to access the site for short periods. I need to get a clear picture of how frequently this is happening, from which geographic locations and at...
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