Today I was fortunate to participate with about 70+ other employees in celebrating and wishing the best of retirement to a long time AutoCAD team member and passionate customer advocate for 32 years Dieter Schlaepfer.
Dieter has been involved in many things at Autodesk over 32 years but primarily learning and training then in the 22 years I have known his in the technical publications roles. He was always trying to find out from customers how we can communicate feature and functionality in easy understandable and correct ways. He has seen the documentation go from the big printed books to the current online formats. If you have participated in AutoCAD betas on the Autodesk Feedback Community you certainly know how helpful and active Dieter has been. One of the creative projects of Dieters was the Hitchhikers Guide to AutoCAD series which was a creative way for new users to learn concepts of AutoCAD.
Dieter has long been a key family member of AutoCAD and Autodesk, and longtime…