20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
Have you ever felt like the middle mouse wheel zoom is too fast or too slow in AutoCAD? It can depend on the scale of the drawing and objects you are working on, or perhaps even your mood. This speed of the zoom in and out is controlled by a system variable named ZOOMFACTOR.
In AutoCAD 2010 there is now a new ribbon option we call sticky panels. You can now tear off a ribbon panel to the drawing area. It will remain on your drawing area much like a toolbar would.
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.…
In June, I will begin to focus on my Autodesk Platform Technology Evangelist position and less on managing all Autodesk product betas.
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.
Now with AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010 in the Block Editor there is the ability to test your block speeding up the creation of powerful Dynamic Blocks.
This book, AutoCAD 2010 Transitioning from AutoCAD 2009 covering all of the big AutoCAD 2010 topics and workflows.
I had the pleasure to present to the Seattle based PSAUG Puget Sound Autodesk Users Group last week. I called this my Shaan's Digital Design Rodeo Roundup Seattle 2009 as a fun theme name as I am a digital design rodeo clown with my warped humor and presentation style and loving the live Q&A even the tough questions with horns. I promised I would provide my resource links to all that attended and am sharing below.