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…
The Free DWF Writer 2 which I mentioned the beta awhile back will be on the Autodesk web site very soon. When it is available I will post in here. It is a really nice Windows System printer driver to…
I was reading Robert Scoble’s (of Microsoft) Scobleizer Weblog and was blown away by the free travelogue-authoring tool tool developed by Microsoft Research. The tool World-Wide Media eXchange “WWMX” allows you to geographically stamp your photos allowing for a map…
We really need some more of the really motivated and feedback driven beta sites. I am always looking for AutoCAD beta sites that are willing to be very active and provide constructive feedback on ideas and features. We have thousands…
In addition to the AutoCAD Wish List on AUGI.com I added my ‘Between The Lines AutoCAD Wish List’ & $100 Feature Survey. I will be reviewing these and also discussing the suggestions directly with the design and development groups periodically.…
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…
Looks like Shawn Caldwell had a blast attending Autodesk University this year. See his online photos. Click Here Shaan’s AU 2003 Photo Gallery Click Here Cheers, -Shaan