Category AutoCAD Tips

AutoCAD Free Plugin of the Month for June 2010 ~ Dimension Patrol

Chances are it has happened to you when you received drawings from someone else you have dimensioned components but something does not add up. Hopefully you notice there is a discrepancy and the person has cheated with dimension value overrides or you could be headed for a headache in fabrication or construction. Stephen Preston Autodesk DevTech Americas Manager wrote a nice plugin that will help you identify these overridden dimensions as well as including all the source code to see how it was accomplished.

AutoCAD 2011 and Other Autodesk Product Help – On the Go

Chances are you own a mobile phone or smartphone in this age of mobile technology. One thing I have been doing on both my Blackberry and iPhone is taking the Chances are you own a mobile phone or smartphone in this age of mobile technology. One thing I have been doing on both my Blackberry and iPhone is taking the AutoCAD documentation with me on my mobile devices so I can access them from anywhere. It is a a cool trick to appear to known each and every system variable and command during a conversation with someone, as long as they don't realize you have the documentation on your phone and you really don't know everything AutoCAD.
What I want to do in this post is to give you the AutoCAD documentation in the palm of your hand.

Displaying the Hatch Area with a Field in AutoCAD

So I love barbeque. People that know me can attest to this fact and I have cooked barbeque baby back ribs all over the world, even in Germany where I was paid in fine beer and compliments. Anyways I wanted to quickly demonstrate a valuable method to show the area of a Hatch object automatically as well as include the areas in a table, then with a total and when the hatched areas are changed so are the area values in the table.