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Tutorial: Create a command alias (keyboard shortcut)
Many people like to use the keyboard to enter commands, but some of the commands are long, hard to type, or difficult to remember.Originally posted by ellen@ellenfinkelstein.com from AutoCAD Tips Newsletter ReBlogged here on 17 Mar 2007
Quickly format dimensions
Usually, it's best to format your dimensions using a dimension style. If you want an exception to the style, create an override. To createOriginally posted by ellen@ellenfinkelstein.com from AutoCAD Tips Newsletter ReBlogged here on 17 Mar 2007
Windows Vista support for AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007
If you want to be able to run AutoCAD 2007 on Windows Vista today look at this link below. But even if you don'tOriginally posted by JTB World from JTB World Blog ReBlogged here on 17 Mar 2007
AECnews.com Demands:
Adobe Must Acquire SpaceClaim
For all those anonymous whingers complaining about my SpaceClaim coverage, chew on this: AECnews.com editor Randall Newton insists that Adobe must immediately acquire SpaceClaim.
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 17 Mar 2007
AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007 Service Pack 2 Beta
The AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007 Service Pack 2 betas are now available to members of the AutoCAD Futures in the MyFeedback zoneOriginally posted by CADman from Between the Lines ReBlogged here on 17 Mar 2007
Offre d'emploi chez A2 design
La firme de Design et d'Architecture de Laval, A2 Design est à la recherche d'un technicien en architecture travaillant sur Revit.Visitez leur site webOriginally posted by Daniel Hurtubise from Revit It! ReBlogged here on 17 Mar 2007
Offre d'emploi chez Martin + Marcotte
La firme Martin + Marcotte architectes à été fondée à Montréal en 1985. La firme oeuvre dans différents secteurs d’activités tel que le domaineOriginally posted by Daniel Hurtubise from Revit It! ReBlogged here on 17 Mar 2007
Reminder: Gateway AUG Tips and Tricks Meeting in St. Louis
Just wanted to remind those in the St. Louis/Metro area that there will be an AutoCAD Tips and Tricks meeting on Tuesday the 20th,Originally posted by Melanie (Stone) Perry from Mistress of the Dorkness ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
Ralph Updates His (e)Books
for AutoCAD 2008
From Feburary through July, I'm busy updating my line of AutoCAD books for 2008: Autodesk Press The Illustrated AutoCAD 2008 Quick Reference - I've
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
Acad08 Blog Coverage
Trails Off -- Too Soon
I've monitoring the blogosphere's coverage of AutoCAD 2008, and it appears to have died off too soon. (I monitor it through Google Blogs daily
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
I am fortunate enough to live where there is a fantastic St. Patrick's Day celebration. We have a big parade with acts from allOriginally posted by BethPowell from Beth's CAD Blog ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
Copy as Path and Open Command Window Here in Vista
Here is a useful Windows Vista tip. Select a file or folder, hold down Shift and right click. Some additional options shows up. PinOriginally posted by JTB World from JTB World Blog ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
3ds max Training with the Great Ted Boardman
Got an itch to learn a new skill this year? Maybe you want to add some glitz and dazzle to your hidden line drawingsOriginally posted by Lee Ambrosius from HyperPics: Beyond the UI ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
Showing AutoCAD's hatch dialog from a .NET application
This question was posted by csharpbird:How to get the Hatch dialog using .NET? It seems that there is no such class in the .NETOriginally posted by Kean Walmsley from Through the Interface ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
Autodesk DWF Writer 2008: System Requirements
As part of our work on the Nile project, we are releasing an update to the free DWF writer - DWF Writer 2008. AutodeskOriginally posted by ScottBlogs from Beyond the Paper ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
Ethereal CAD vs Chaotic CAD vs Despot CAD
I mentioned that Ethereal CAD is an environment that is all talk and no action. This means that it would have a woefully underOriginally posted by CADDManager from CADDManager.com Blog ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
MagicJack - revolução - revolution
As empresas de telecomunicações que se cuidem com a próxima revolução de Abril. Será lançada esta nova caneta usb que tem um jack paraOriginally posted by João Brogueira from CAD ptbr - Falando sobre CAD, GIS e 3D em Português...por João Brogueira ReBlogged here on 16 Mar 2007
Starting AutoCAD Architecture 2008
Essential Task Movies You need sound card on you PC to hear Amy Fietkau, Autodesk Architectural Desktop expert when running the following movies. Managing Your DrawingsOriginally posted by JTB World from JTB World Blog ReBlogged here on 15 Mar 2007
Getting the list of .NET-defined commands in AutoCAD
Here's an interesting question that came in from Kerry Brown:Is there a way to determine the names of Commands loaded into Acad from assembliesOriginally posted by Kean Walmsley from Through the Interface ReBlogged here on 15 Mar 2007
Comparison: of AutoCAD files published to DWFx and XPS
Senior Product Manager, Allister Lundberg, reports that there are several reasons why users should create .dwfx files from AutoCAD instead of creating .xps usingOriginally posted by ScottBlogs from Beyond the Paper ReBlogged here on 15 Mar 2007
Show Autodesk Your AutoCAD Screen!
The AutoCAD Product Design Team is gathering a collection of screenshots to broaden our view of our customers work environment. We are looking forOriginally posted by CADman from Between the Lines ReBlogged here on 15 Mar 2007
AutoCAD 2008 Trick: Plotting/Publish One or To Many Trick
The following system variable will allow you to create a single file or multiple for example Publish multiple sheets to a single PDF orOriginally posted by CADman from Between the Lines ReBlogged here on 14 Mar 2007
Social Marketing
& CAD Bloggers
Enid Burns of ClickZ News writes on "Marketers Increasingly Use Social Networking Sites." Last year, 38% of firms surveyed used social networking -- MySpace,
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 14 Mar 2007
Autodesk Revit Building Curso Completo - Livro
Principais Tópicos * Configurar o ambiente de trabalho; * Controlar a representação gráfica dos objectos; * Utilizar filtros para controlar a visualização de modoOriginally posted by João Brogueira from CAD ptbr - Falando sobre CAD, GIS e 3D em Português...por João Brogueira ReBlogged here on 14 Mar 2007
Autodesk Design Review Honors Scale Set in DWF File
A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey writes in:Once in Buzzsaw, my DWF files that were converted from DWG files do notOriginally posted by ScottBlogs from Beyond the Paper ReBlogged here on 14 Mar 2007
Boeing's Dream
Airbus' Nightmare
Baseline magazine has a l-o-n-g story titled, "The Promise and Peril of PLM: Boeing's Dream, Airbus' Nightmare". They, like us, haven't been able to
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 14 Mar 2007
Multiline attributes in AutoCAD 2008
A great news in AutoCAD 2008 that we have been waiting a long time for is attributes that supports multiple lines. There is a new modeOriginally posted by JTB World from JTB World Blog ReBlogged here on 14 Mar 2007
Beyond the Paper meets Repro Trends
Tonight I had dinner with Curtis Thornton. Curtis authors a ReproTrends blog. I guess you could say it was Beyond the Paper meets ReproTrends.Originally posted by ScottBlogs from Beyond the Paper ReBlogged here on 14 Mar 2007
Run AutoCAD 2007 or AutoCAD 2008 on an Intel Based Mac
We have completed some internal testing for running AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2008 on Apple Boot Camp running Windows XP on Intel based iMacOriginally posted by CADman from Between the Lines ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Fortune Disappoints:
Fails to Tell Story Promised
This week's issue of Fortune magazine has a feature story on the A380 disaster. Several times, the magazine promises to tell the whole story
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
SpaceClaim Makes a Claim to Your Space
(or Some Such Pun)
SpaceClaim hauled Westcoast journalists out of bed at 7am this morning to talk about their new 3D CAD software. (I missed half the presentation,
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
National BIM Standard Version 1 released for review
National BIM Standard Version 1, Part 1 is out for Industry ReviewHOT OFF THE WIRE... Here is a portion of the press release. TakeOriginally posted by CADDManager from CADDManager.com Blog ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
How to show website favicons on the Vista desktop
If you right click on a website in Internet Explorer and select Create Shortcut you will be asked. "Do you want to put a shortcutOriginally posted by JTB World from JTB World Blog ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Deploying ADT & CAD Standards
I have spent a fair amount of time lately working on a project for a local firm that has seen the light and upgradedOriginally posted by BethPowell from Beth's CAD Blog ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
AutoCAD 2008: MATTs (Multiline Attributes)
No longer are you limited to a single line text attributes, you can now create and use multiline attributes "MATTs". The MATTs also getOriginally posted by CADman from Between the Lines ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
February 2008 Blog Visitors
45,207 unique visitors from 173 countries and even some from satellite phones.Originally posted by CADman from Between the Lines ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Materials and Lighting Online Training
M fundamental Lights and Materials is now available at CADLearning. Over 7 hours in 97 lessons or working efficiently and flexibly to create 3dsOriginally posted by tbdesign from Ted Boardman's Visualization Blog ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Would you like to see a "Modeless" Layer Dialog in AutoCAD?
If you answer yes! or maybe, tell me more! to the above, then head this way and see what Eric Stover (Product Line ManagerOriginally posted by MikePerry from BLAUGI ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Share the latest Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2008 goings-on / news
Have you got (breaking) news / information / etc you are able / willing to share with others? If yes, go to THIS threadOriginally posted by MikePerry from BLAUGI ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Share the latest Autodesk AutoCAD Architecture 2008 goings-on / news
Have you got (breaking) news / information / etc you are able / willing to share with others? If yes, go to THIS threadOriginally posted by MikePerry from BLAUGI ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Autodesk Design Review 2008: Building Tour Wheel
Autodesk Design Review 2008 is scheduled to be released in April. In a previous blog article, I provided an overview of new features inOriginally posted by ScottBlogs from Beyond the Paper ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
The State of the News Industry, 2007
The Project for Excellence in Journalism recently published the 2007 State of the News Industry - a comprehensive analysis of the journalistic news industryOriginally posted by rachael Dalton-Taggart from PR, Marketing and the Business of CAD ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Zoho Projects
Free (for one), Online (for all)
Zoho Project is one of many online collaboration applications that you (and yer buddies) access through the Internet. It is free to use for
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
More AutoCAD 2008 info - Annotative Scaling!
It was a long week in Vegas and I am delighted to be back on the home front! It was great spending time withOriginally posted by Lynn Allen from Lynn Allen's Blog ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
How to see object properties for ADT and ABS 2007 files in Jetstream
From the NavisWorks KB: Problem:How to bring through properties as well as geometry from ADT and ABS 2007 files into Jetstream Solution: Please ensureOriginally posted by JTB World from JTB World Blog ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
Gelato the new and free renderer from Nvidia
If you have graphic cards like NVIDIA Quadro FX or NVIDIA® GeForce® 5200 or higher you can download and run Gelato 2.1 from Nvidia forOriginally posted by JTB World from JTB World Blog ReBlogged here on 13 Mar 2007
New 3D Interface
from Design Review
The interfaces for 3D CAD software keep improving. They have to, because working in 3D is not natural on computers. There are two approaches:
Originally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
Notice: FTP Server down
It appears as though the FTP server for the blog has a holiday on Monday, Mar 12. Hopefully it will come up soon. SorryOriginally posted by tbdesign from Ted Boardman's Visualization Blog ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
IME and AutoCAD 2008
If you in AutoCAD 2008 right click in the new InfoCenter search box at the top right you will notice these options. Right to leftOriginally posted by JTB World from JTB World Blog ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
Follow Up: Annotative Text
Reader "bigamike" had a couple of questions about annotative text: Q: Let's say I have a drawing (DWG 1) and I've used "Atext" inOriginally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
AutoCAD 2008 discussion groups
Originally posted by R.K. McSwain from CAD Panacea ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
GeoCAD's rock bottom pricing
Atoll GeoCAD the makers of 3D Terrain / Landscape & Mapping Software are offering rock bottom pricing on all their software modules. In additionOriginally from Cadopolis News ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
Video: Animated Overhead Door
I got an email asking about animating garage doors, so here are two options. I've purposely created the objects so that I would beOriginally posted by tbdesign from Ted Boardman's Visualization Blog ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
Detect Autodesk Design Review JavaScript
This blog has an image in the left side navigation portion that links to programming samples. John Schmier has provided a new sample thatOriginally posted by ScottBlogs from Beyond the Paper ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
AutoCAD 2008: New Direct, Interactive Moving
AutoCAD 2006 and 2007 feature a hidden shortcut that let you copy and move objects directly -- without using the Move/Copy commands or theOriginally posted by ralph grabowski from WorldCAD Access ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
Recorded presentation on Autodesk's Component Technologies
It's been quite a week... I was attending Autodesk's annual One Team Conference in Las Vegas, and had a number of meetings before, duringOriginally posted by Kean Walmsley from Through the Interface ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
Animal CAD
I always wondered why Robert McNeel & Associates have named all their software after animals. Their NURBS modeling software is called Rhinoceros. Flamingo isOriginally posted by Deelip Menezes from Deelip Menezes ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
Comment écrire un "pattern" de brique simple
Nous allons écrire un pattern de brique simple ou nous créerons une brique de 200mm x 75mm avec un quinconce de 75mmLa première étapeOriginally posted by Daniel Hurtubise from Revit It! ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
Despot CAD - Oppresive Standards
Despot CAD is when the Standards are in place but no one knows why they are what they are.A Despot is: A ruler withOriginally posted by CADDManager from CADDManager.com Blog ReBlogged here on 12 Mar 2007
AutoCAD 2008 - Customizing a Dashboard Panel
As I mentioned in my previous comments about AutoCAD 2008, I am enjoying the Dashboard Panels. I have to admit that the only thingOriginally posted by Melanie (Stone) Perry from Mistress of the Dorkness ReBlogged here on 11 Mar 2007
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