First Post of 2004 – Happy New Years Everyone!
Well the West Coast has now rang in the new year. I hope everyone has a safe new years day and a better year than the last. Also please note it will take me the next 9 months to stop…
Between the Lines Blog
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
Between the Lines Blog
20+ Years of Design, Technology & More
Category Tips–n-Tricks
A 3D Christmas Tree in AutoCAD
AutoCAD longtime guru Dietmar Rudolph created an AutoCAD LISP routine in 1997 to draw a random 3D Christmas tree. You can download the LISP routine from the below link then simply use APPLOAD to load the LSP file and then…
New Exciting DWF Usage for Facilities
I have seen some very clever usage of DWF files on a corporate network. You can show employee locations, printers and in many cases even install and map to the printers of an office as shown in Jimmy Bergmark’s intranet…
Great Source of AutoCAD Tutorials
Just browsing through my web browser favorite links on a Sunday and I found this gem of a resource. http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/default.asp?af=3&re=1&se=AutoCAD There are many other application tutorials on this site as well. Some of the AutoCAD tutorials listed in the site…
Lee Ambrosius Created a No-Explode Routine Requested During AU 2003
AU 2003 Photo Link – Lee at AU 2003 During the Industry Session for General Design with the AutoCAD Team panel, a question was asked about the ability to filter out objects like Mtext, Blocks and Dimensions so they can’t…
Autodesk University 2003 Class Materials Are Being Posted
A lot of hard work went into these class handouts. Make sure if you use the material in your company to give full credit to the author/instructors and AU. Seeing just the class materials is a far cry from…
Some nice AutoCAD Tutorials & Articles
Here are some nice AutoCAD related links I just ran across. AutoCAD tutorials by Michael E. Beall of CAD Manager Survey, part 2 by CAD Manager Expert and all around nice guy Robert Green of Cadalyst Magazine …
Plot Style Trick for Dimensions
I have had the same dimension request a few times and even needed something similar when I was designing before coming to Autodesk in 1998. People ask for a different extension linetype then the dimension baseline. Every since AutoCAD 2000…
The AutoCAD 2004 Tool Palette Extension & Palette Groups
You can now with the Tool Palette Extension create and manage and even switch palette groups easier than ever. In the below image you see the Customize dialog you get after installing the extension then right-click on the Tool Palette…
Great New DWF Article from Lynn Allen
Why You Need DWF Click Here for this great article by fellow desker and friend Lynn Allen. Cheers, -Shaan