20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
Autodeskers Chris Yanchar and Julian Gonzalez of the Autodesk Architectural Desktop “ADT” team showed me some really nice examples of the power of their product. Of course I have to mention ADT is built on AutoCAD as a platform for…
Print contents of STB or CTB file Click Here This tool provides a way to export a CTB or STB plot style tables to a comma-delimited text file. You can then import the comma-delimited text file into a spreadsheet program…
Are you aware there is a free download of Migration related utilities for AutoCAD 2004?Link: The list of Migration Tools and descriptions: Autodesk Batch Drawing Converter 2004Autodesk® Batch Drawing Converter 2004 converts any AutoCAD or AutoCAD-based drawing file to…
Saving Real Estate with Auto-hide feature for Palettes – Part 1 Saving Real Estate with Clean Screen – Part 2 PEDITACCEPT and how it affects the PEDIT command Cycling through the Layout Tabs in the drawing …
I get this question at least a dozen times a year. The question is if you can have two linetypes or colors for a dimension. The most common reason is the person wants a solid baseline and a dashed or…
CAD-1.com has posted an online streaming video tutorial on the Autodesk® DWF™ Writer (). They show how to use it and discuss uses for it to print from any windows application to the DWF format. http://www.cad-1.com/tips&tricks_janfebvid-04.htm Cheers, -Shaan
Prior to AutoCAD 2004, if you pasted a block or inserted into a drawing the layer filters from the block would also come along. In some cases the drawings would get quite a few layer filters. Customers pointed out this…
I actually just for fun created a high DPI multiple page DWF of the Solar System on a 10,000 inch by 10,000 in page size. It was only 34KB in size. I set the plot style to make all lines with 0.0" lineweight for more crisp
Did you know… If you create a text file named acad.rx in your Autocad directory, you can list your ARX files in this file and then when AutoCAD loads it will automatically load the listed ARX files? Cheers, -Shaan
DWF precision One of the advantages (to some customers at least, maybe not you) is the security offered by DWF because it has the same restrictions as physical paper. Many users don’t want people stealing their model data. Let me…