In the It's a visual world... post I mentioned that the new graphics in AutoCAD 2007 will place greater demands on PC graphics. You can tune the machine by selectively removing some of the more demanding settings, shadows especially, but a better card means a better experience. Besides
They say it's a visual world and that is the theme of the 2007 releases. Creating, editing, navigating around and rendering AutoCAD 3D has been made significantly easier, heck it’s just plain fun! To achieve this the AutoCAD has had a significant overhaul and this core benefits
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Just getting used to the fact that it’s already March, where did the first two months of 2006 go?, then you find out it’s 2007 already! Not quite, but the new ‘07 AutoCAD based products are on the way. Check out Chris and Shaan’s posts with links
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Full of techniques to be lazy, this blog will save you the time spent reading it and more! "If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person - they will find an easier way to do it." – Hlade's Law The Lazy Drafter How to
Ellen Finkelstein has a new AutoCAD Tips Blog. It's the same content as her site but, instead of being organised by topic, has the latest tips on a single page for easy reference. It's at: http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/autocad_tips_blog.html
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My ADT deployment omits the “add a plotter” shortcut as everyone except one remote user accesses the same network plotter pc3’s. I went to set up plotters for the remote user, off-site, but there is no “add a plotter” shortcut… After a fairly long search, looking for the
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Beau Turner shows how to transform 3D DWG files into Google Earth using ExtractKML, a tool from the Avatech Solutions DEV team. Awesome! Will render for food...: DWG and Google Earth. Will render for food...: DWG and Google Earth
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Ever encounter weird line scale problems inside a drawing? It can happen when you use content from external sources that may import line types not present in your default templates. In the metric world AutoCAD uses line types from the ACADISO.lin. They are scaled versions of the imperial ACAD.
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Some map image sources provide georeferenced raster files. They are simply an image created with a corresponding reference file which stores the proper position (coordinates) and scale of the image. If you have AutoCAD Map you can scale images based on this information but a free AAC Solutions utility also
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In September 2004 I blogged about a free MindManager for AEC Add-In. This allowed Autodesk Design Web Format (DWF) files to be integrated into MindManager Maps. It was a technology demonstration from Mindjet rather than a release candidate product but showed the potential of combining CAD and Map information
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There are new versions of the freebie DWF Viewer and DWF Writer applications. Many of the new viewer features are aimed at exploring 3D DWF models although improvements to operation, integration, and 2D DWF viewing haven’t been forgotten. I’ll start with the Viewer and it’s new 3D
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Publish and be damned! no more! Mark, In the Dynamic Interface CAD Blog, has a nice tip to preview AutoCAD Publish to DWF results before you do. In the Dynamic Interface: No need to cross your fingers before publish
