XML Editing to fix AutoCAD Tool Palette order
I know a man called John who used to have a life. Now he has a CAD blog… Which is good as we get to read handy hints such as to make AutoCAD Tools on a Tool Palette stay in the same order when you...
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AutoCAD Publish to Google Earth "updated for 2008"
One of my most popular older posts is the result of people searching for “AutoCAD, Google Earth kmz”. About a thousand people a month find this post about the Autodesk Labs AutoCAD Google Earth Extens...
Parametric BIM in AutoCAD?
Most people think of shopping as an activity, a recreation or a chore but maybe it’s more than that. In David Byrne’s pseudo-documentary comedy “ True Stories ” Kay Culver introduces a bizarre shopppi...
Annotation logic in AutoCAD?
Heidi Hewett's Blog: Annotation Scaling 106 The process for scaling annotations in AutoCAD 2008 is quite different than in the past. You’ll have to adjust your thinking a little… not because it...
Excel to AutoCAD, do you read me?
CAD Geek Blogger Donnie Gladfelter has a great post on the new AutoCAD 2008 to Microsoft Data link feature. I only recently found his blog and it’s well worth subscribing to! Linking Excel and Au...
AutoCAD 2008 - Linescale sorted?
Did anyone ever really understand the linescale settings in AutoCAD? Confusing enough for “ the imperialists ”, it was further complicated for metric users with the addition of “international” file...
AutoCAD 2008 - Automatic DWF Publish?
Beth beat me to press, to blog?, with an AutoCAD 2008 feature that caught my eye. No point repeating her fine work here so click thru for more detail on Automatic DWF Publish. Automatic DWF Publ...
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The Fiat Scratch, designed from scratch with AliasStudio
Cadalyst have an article about the Fiat Scratch , a concept car created with help from AliasStudio, Photoshop, AutoCAD 3ds Max. Much is made of it’s factory fresh “scratched weathered look” but Fia...
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AutoCAD 2008 - Custom Dashboards, It's your dashboard after all...
As I wrote the Dashboard Layer Control post I noticed all that blank space above the Layer State control. I use the layer off, freeze, lock controls on the former Layers II (before that Express tools)...
AutoCAD 2008 - Layers on the Dashboard
The dashboard now contains the functions previously seen on the Layer Properties toolbar and more. In addition to the layer settings flyout it allows access to Layer Filter groups which is handy. It a...
AutoCAD 2008 InfoCenter - "It’s help Jim, but not as we know it”
Apologies for the Trekkie rip off but InfoCenter does take “Help” from the Help menu and creates an information resource for the user. It combines serveral existing help/info features with a powerful...
2008: The end of Architectural Desktop, Autodesk Building Systems, Revit Building and DWF Viewer?
In a flurry of press releases Autodesk announced that the 2008 release will see Architectural Desktop, Autodesk Building Systems and Revit Building,Revit Systems consigned to history. The AutoCAD b...