20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
Have an AutoCAD question, you have the opportunity to ask a master of AutoCAD on the AutoCAD Exchange site is the Ask an Expert section. The AutoCAD Exchange is free after signing up and contains many great resources and opportunities for networking. This week the expert is well known “The AutoCAD Trainer Guy” Michael Beall.
Tuesday May 19, 2009 10:00 AM. – 5:00 PM. EDT (7:00 AM – 2:00 PM. PDT) There will be many presentations as well as Autodesk employees posted in the virtual booths to take your questions on the many new products.…
The Autodesk Imagine Virtual Event is an online live event with interactive chat sessions included. Tuesday May 19, 2009
AutoCAD customers have been asking for the option to rotate the view with their associated viewport. This was a top item in the AUGI AutoCAD Wish List June 2007 submitted by Bill N. With AutoCAD 2010 we have added the ability to rotate objects in a viewport with the viewport easily without having to become a UCS ninja master.
I was doing some planning work for a new pond in my backyard and thought I would share a cool tip. When drawing a 2D layout of my yard’s landscaping I was presented with the problem of duplicating the flowerbeds border with the grass regions. Instead of copying and drawing outlines which could cause problems with the splines I used for the curved shapes, I used the trick of creating a new boundary polyline with a Hatch. Below is a tutorial on how you can do the same trick and as a bonus showed my design styled in Autodesk Impression.
am re-releasing the Drawing Tabs Bonus Tool. We have fixed some bugs identified in CER reports and recompiled the much beloved free Drawing Tabs MDITabs.ARX application for both 32bit and 64bit versions of AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2009, and AutoCAD 2007/2008/2009. Yes AutoCAD 2009 and 2008 64bit version due to customer request. MDITabs allows you to see and quickly navigate open drawings in a series of tabs along the top of the drawing window.
Juan Maschio from beautiful Argentina has started a new blog dedicated to using both Revit and 3ds Max in the design process. Juan will also be blogging some tips and tricks for other programs such as: AutoCAD , Autodesk Impression, Revit MEP, Revit Structure.
Perhaps you use AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor and prefer the direction Inventor uses for the mouse middle wheel transparent zooms.
There is a new Autodesk blog in the CAD Blogosphere Without a Net.
We know you have some excellent tips and tricks and love to share them with fellow AutoCAD users. You can share your experienced tips on the AutoCAD Exchange community as well as learn some new tips and tricks while there.