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Labels: Notices
PermaLink Posted 12/06/2008 07:00:00 PM Comments (0)
Scott's blog, Paving the Way, is still active, same name with a different address. Check it out, and best wishes Scott.
Labels: Autodesk University, Civil 3D, New Blogs, Notices
PermaLink Posted 11/18/2008 06:30:00 AM Comments (0)
In a previous post from April 2008, I had a link to DWG TrueConvert 2007. That URL actually pointed to DWG Trueconvert 2004. I don't know if Autodesk changed the target of that URL or what. Here are the current links as of today:
- DWG Trueconvert 2007 (33.1MB)
- DWG Trueconvert 2004 (18.9MB)
Labels: Add-on utilities, DWG Trueconvert, DWG Trueview, Notices, Tips
PermaLink Posted 11/14/2008 06:16:00 AM Comments (0)
I just don't understand how you are going to select the Move option using your arrow keys if you can't see the menu. The solution of course is to press "M" on the keyboard after pressing ALT+Spacebar.
Labels: AutoCAD, KB, Notices, Tips
PermaLink Posted 11/03/2008 07:04:00 PM Comments (0)
- You can use RibbonClose and Menubar to remove the ribbon and restore the normal pull-down menus.
- You can use the Menu command to load any menu you want, even though it won't help all that much since commands not on this list will not work.
- The Xref/Image/ExternalReference command (they all do the same thing) opens the palette which is missing the right-click commands, but if you use the -XREF and -IMAGE commands, you can actually attach a drawing or image.
- The Dsettings command is available.
- The ClassicLayer command is available.
Here is the complete list.
3DCONFIG
-3DCONFIG
3DORBIT
3DPAN
3DPANTRANSPARENT
ABOUT
AI_EMPTYPRINC
ALLPLAY
AREA
BGPLOTRECEIVE
BROWSER
CAPTURETHUMBNAILS
CLASSICLAYER
CLOSE
CLOSEALL
COMMANDLINE
COMMANDLINEHIDE
DDPLOTSTAMP
DIST
DSETTINGS
+DSETTINGS
DWFCLIP
DWGCONVERT
DWGPROPS
EPLOTEXT
EXTERNALREFERENCES
EXTERNALREFERENCESCLOSE
GRID
HELP
HYPERLINKOPEN
ID
IMAGE
-IMAGE
LAYER
LAYERCLOSE
LAYFRZ
LAYOFF
LIST
MASSPROP
MENU
MENUBAR
MSPACE
NAVSMOTION
-NAVSMOTION
NAVSMOTIONCLOSE
NAVSWHEEL
NAVVCUBE
OPEN
OPTIONS
+OPTIONS
PAGESETUP
PAN
-PAN
PERSPECTIVE
PLOT
PLOTSTAMP
-PLOTSTAMP
PLOTTERMANAGER
PREVIEW
PROXYNOTICE
PSPACE
PUBLISH
-PUBLISH
+PUBLISH
PUBLISHTOWEB
QUIT
QVDRAWING
QVDRAWINGCLOSE
REDRAW
REDRAWALL
REGEN
REGENALL
RIBBON
RIBBONCLOSE
SEQUENCEPLAY
SETVAR
SHADEMODE
SNAP
STEPSIZE
STYLESMANAGER
SYSWINDOWS
TEXTSCR
THUMBSIZE
TOOLBAR
-TOOLBAR
VIEW
-VIEW
VIEWERPREFERENCES
-VIEWERPREFERENCES
VIEWGO
VIEWPLAY
VIEWPLOTDETAILS
VSCURRENT
XREF
-XREF
ZOOM
Labels: DWG Trueview, New Features, Notices, Tips
PermaLink Posted 10/09/2008 06:48:00 AM Comments (0)
Autodesk and Bentley announced they will be exchanging software libraries to help expand the interoperability between each others drawing format. More details in the link below.
Labels: Linetypes, News, Notices
PermaLink Posted 7/09/2008 07:19:00 AM Comments (0)
So you have installed SP1 and you know how to fix drawings with a bloated scale list. But what if you have dozens or hundreds or thousands of "infected" drawings each containing hundreds of scale list entries?
Autodesk has released a tool to fix these bloated drawings. You can select any number of drawings and batch process them.
You have heard about this tool, haven't you? If not, that means you are not reading Shaan Hurley's Between the Lines blog. Here is the link to the Scale List Cleanup Utility. While you are there, I suggest subscribing to this blog to keep up to date with the latest happenings at Autodesk.
Labels: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, Free, News, Notices, Tips, Utilities
PermaLink Posted 4/29/2008 06:58:00 AM Comments (1)
More details can be found on the Through the Interface blog.
Labels: API, AutoCAD, News, Notices, Programming, Wishlist
PermaLink Posted 4/22/2008 06:55:00 AM Comments (0)
- Carlson Survey 2009 with IntelliCAD (includes IntelliCAD engine) - $1500
- Carlson Survey 2009 for AutoCAD (you supply or purchase your own AutoCAD) - $1500
- Carlson Survey 2009 with AutoCAD OEM (includes AutoCAD OEM engine) - $3750
More details
Labels: Carlson Software 2009, IntelliCAD, News, Notices
PermaLink Posted 4/15/2008 04:37:00 PM Comments (0)
AutoCAD 2009 is now out. If you are interested in the Autodesk version of the new features, look below. If you are on an older release and only considering making the move to AutoCAD 2007 or 2008 and you want a summary of the changes, take a look at the NFW for these releases.
- New Features Workshop - AutoCAD 2007
- New Features Workshop - AutoCAD 2008
- New Features Workshop - AutoCAD 2009
Labels: Free, New Features, Notices, Tips
PermaLink Posted 3/25/2008 12:16:00 PM Comments (0)
There are 4 websites with a lot of good information.
Oh well, I'll just paste the links in this post also:
...and one more - Hot Tip Harry's latest article on Lisp Symbols.
Labels: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, Free, Notices, Programming
PermaLink Posted 1/24/2008 05:42:00 PM Comments (0)
Autodesk University 2007 is over. There were a lot of good classes, and a couple that....well, I'll get to that later...
Here were some of my favorites.
- DEA path to Civil 3D migration - DEA presented a class on their migration from Land Desktop to Civil 3D. You can read all the blogs and websites you want, talk to all the resellers you want, but this was first hand info from a consumer on what worked and what didn't. Excellent class. Most of our assumptions were confirmed, one being the expected 5-6 days of training required for each user.
- The Secrets of cutting plan and profile sheets in Civil 3D - Michelle Rasmussen from IMAGINiT Technologies was easily the best speaker I had last week. The content fit the time slot, and it was presented in a logical and easy to understand manner.
- Vaulting the Civil 3D Data Chasm - Mark Evinger from Cowhey Gudmundson Leder presented a fairly technical class on why they decided on Vault over Data Shortcuts, the cost, time, and hardware needed to set up a Vault, and even shared their internal training schedule.
- Filling the gaps in the Sheet Set Manager - If you use SSM, you probably wish it could do some things that it can't. R. Robert Bell demonstrated how to use VBA to solve some of the shortcomings of the SSM.
- Anonymous - I did sit in on one class however that was brutal. It was advertised to users of the product, however the speaker spent the majority of the time talking about doing stuff like manually editing XML files using different 3rd party programs, and using VBA to edit files supplied by Autodesk. I do a fair amount of programming and I barely understood what was going on. About 3/4 of the 400+ user class left in the first 45 minutes.
That last example is an exception to the rule of course.
Outside of class...
- The exhibit hall was huge. Hundreds of booths with a variety of products exhibited.
- I met several people, some for the first time - others I have met before. Allow me to drop some names....
- Melanie Perry - the Mistress of the Dorkness
- Shaan Hurley - Technical Marketing Manager, Autodesk
- Eric Stover - Product Line Manager, Autodesk
- Kate Morrical - Kate's CAD Tips
- Ralph Sanchez - texupport.net, AutoCAD Bugtracker
- R. Robert Bell - AU Speaker, programmer extraordinaire...
- Jerry Milana - Senior Consultant, Autodesk
- Robert Green - CAD-Manager.com, Cadalyst Author, and all around good guy...
- Bud Schroeder - Sr. Test Engineer, Autodesk
- Amy Stankiewicz - Editor-in-chief, Cadalyst Magazine
- Nancy Johnson - Editor, Digital Media
- Bill Fane - Cadalyst Author
- Murph - Map 3D and Murphs Law
- Melanie Perry - the Mistress of the Dorkness
Other notes...
I even ran into Shaan (camera in hand of course) out on the strip Wednesday night. Does he ever sleep?
During my 3:00-4:30 class on Thursday, my wife was out shopping and ran into Pete Rose over at a sports shop in Caesars Palace. You just never know who you might run into in Vegas I suppose....
Labels: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, Autodesk University, Cadalyst, New Blogs, Notices, Vault
PermaLink Posted 11/30/2007 02:20:00 PM Comments (0)
( alternative download URL )
Disclaimer: This routine works on some CUI files, but not all. I tried converting the stock OOTB "acad.cui" from AutoCAD 2007, and it failed. I tried converting a custom CUI and the Express Tools CUI from AutoCAD 2007, and it worked OK.
Labels: Add-on utilities, CUI, MNU, Notices, Tips
PermaLink Posted 9/29/2007 03:06:00 PM Comments (2)
Kate's CAD Tips
By: Kate M
Blog: http://katescadtips.blogspot.com/
Feed: http://katescadtips.blogspot.com/atom.xml
The LT Side of Things
By: Erik
Blog: http://ltsideofthings.blogspot.com/
Feed: http://ltsideofthings.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Labels: AutoCAD LT, Notices
PermaLink Posted 9/09/2007 08:21:00 AM Comments (0)
Labels: Add-on utilities, Notices
PermaLink Posted 7/30/2007 08:34:00 PM Comments (1)
I just ran across another drawing viewer application called Myriad 3D/2D Viewer. I'm not trying to do a full review here, I just wanted to comment on some of its features with regard to viewing, printing and measuring 2D drawings.
1. Viewing and Printing - This application will open over 100 different file formats. I successfully opened several files of the following file types with no problems. DWG (r2007 version), DGN (v8 version), DWF, PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF, HPGL/2 (plot file), and DXF. This is an MDI application with optional tabs across the top like IE7 or FireFox web browsers. Controlling layer visibility, switching to monochrome mode, and changing the background color are all easily done using an icon in the status bar. You can pan, zoom and even rotate the drawing easily. My only complaint is that the mouse wheel zooms in and out using the center of the viewport as the basepoint, rather than the location of the cursor. Switching from model space to a layout is done with a drop down box in the status bar area. Other than the minor wheel zoom issue, this is an excellent viewing tool. In addition to the normal print options, there is a one button tool for printing to PDF, TIF, and DWF. You can also save the current view as a JPG file.
2. Measuring - Measuring is pretty simple also. You have to calibrate a known distance once before using the other tools. After that you can measure a line, polyline (continuous distance) for linear measurements, and a polygon or rectangle for area measurements. Turning on the "snap" will cause the cursor to snap to endpoints, midpoints, and centers.
Summary Of course, there are many more features in this application related to markup and 3D viewing that I didn't go over. It looks like the pricing structure is based on how many features are enabled. Bentley View has it beat as a pure DWG/DGN viewer simply because BV is free, but if you need other features at a reasonable cost, Myriad looks like the real deal.
I have updated my list of drawing viewers to include this application also.
Labels: Notices, Tips, Viewers
PermaLink Posted 6/12/2007 05:56:00 PM Comments (0)
Here are some other related links:
Shaan's license plate frame
Beth's vanity plate
CADMAMA
Labels: Notices
PermaLink Posted 5/17/2007 09:03:00 PM Comments (1)
You can request the trial version (32-bit) one of three different ways. You can download it, you can order a DVD, or you can order a set of CD's. If you would like the 64-bit version, your only option is a download.
Here are some of the other free trial versions available.
AutoCAD LT Trial version download
AutoCAD LT Trial version CD
AutoCAD Electrical Trial version CD
AutoCAD Civil 3D Trial version CD
AutoCAD Map 3D Trial version CD
AutoCAD Raster Design Trial version Download
AutoCAD Raster Design Trial version CD
Many more FREE Autodesk trial version downloads are listed here
Labels: AutoCAD 2008, Civil, Notices, Raster Design
PermaLink Posted 4/23/2007 07:48:00 PM Comments (0)
This service pack includes all the fixes from SP1 and SP2, and can be installed on top of an unpatched version or on top of SP1 or SP2.
PermaLink Posted 12/12/2006 07:48:00 AM Comments (0)
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For more info, see What is CADTutor?
Labels: Notices
PermaLink Posted 11/10/2006 07:50:00 AM Comments (0)