AutoCAD
AutoCAD 2004 introduced colour books for managing custom colours. Since then , Resene Paints (New Zealand) have created AutoCAD Colour books for their entire paint range. There are now over three thou...
AutoCAD
Where’s the Dynamite? Has Explode gone? While many CAD Managers may prefer had gone Explode is still in 2009 but without that iconic, umm, icon! For as long as I can remember, to create havoc in an...
AutoCAD
InfoCenter was introduced with AutoCAD 2008. I liked how it combined the old communication centre, help, search and integrated RSS feeds. However, some found the title bar search entry box consumed to...
I’ve flogged this capture from “Beyond the Paper” to illustrate an important new feature in Autodesk’s free .dwg drawing viewer. It could always view, print and publish (to DWF) but Autodesk DWG Tr...
AutoCAD
From Perth, Australia, AutoCAD Guru Steve Johnson has started an AutoCAD blog… Welcome to blog nauseam - www.blog.cadnauseam.com This is the blog of cad nausea owner Steve Johnson. Expect to fi...
AutoCAD
I was going to blog about AutoCAD 2009’s new Quick View Layout Drawing feature but now there is little point. Just click through to Donnie’s brilliant post and video to see these features in action:...
Autodesk have announced their “2009” product releases including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture/MEP and Revit Architecture/MEP. While there is a lot to see in these products some of the announcements ma...
Lisa’s blog has an announcement from the Autodesk World Press Day which impresses! Coming soon... – Inside Hues – Lisa's Autodesk Impression Blog “At World Press Days (taking place as we speak)...
I heard of Revit users experimenting with Google SketchUp for presentations in an attempt to get a more natural “conceptual look” than Revit allows. Many Revit users also have AutoCAD available so I t...
Autodesk has “ absorbed ” renowned AutoCAD Guru\Blogger Lee Ambrosius. You may know Lee from his comprehensive AutoCAD website, Hyperpics , his blog, Beyond the UI , or AUGI contributions. Lee knows m...
I got an email from a reader with the question; “Do you know if there is a way to wrap text around a curve in AutoCad MEP?” I haven’t looked at how you’d achieve it in a AutoCAD MEP label but...
If you’ve installed AutoCAD 2008 Sp1 (or any vertical based on it) there are a couple of hotfixes you should investigate: Hotfix - Linetype display – This hotfix repairs a problem in which linet...
