ActiveWords
An awesome use for ActiveWords is creating AutoCAD Fields within text objects. AutoCAD Fields are "live text" which show properties like date, filename etc but are actually entered as text strings. E.G.: If you want AutoCAD to show the filename for the current file. You launch the
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A free Autodesk DWG Viewer, so you can see & print AutoCAD “.dwg” based files for free. Not quite here yet but it will be soon. See the details at: Between the Lines: Free Autodesk DWG File Viewer
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Welcome to another AutoCAD blog – in fact it’s a CLog – Barry Ralph’s BazzaCAD! 10/10 for the innovative use of a very familiar interface. BazzaCAD CLog What's a CLog? It's a Cad Log via In the Dynamic Interface
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It won’t help you figure out “who done it” in the thriller you’re reading but I found an AutoCAD variable that will let you see the plot. If you have a plotter with a small on-board display, like our HP 800, AutoCAD’s recently acquired habit of sending
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Jane Smith has just launched a new blog about…. Using Raster Design with AutoCAD “This is an effort to help anyone new to Autodesk Raster Design. When I started using this program, it was called CAD Overlay. At the time, it was an almost unheard of program in this area
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Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) have posted the AutoCAD Wish-list candidates. The wish-list is presented to Autodesk during the AUGI AGM held at Autodesk University. It’s your chance to vote and make your wishes known! AutoCAD Wish List Ballot - Autodesk User Group International (Requires free AUGI registration) UPDATE:
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Autodesk have made Knowledge Base articles available via RSS Feed . Now you can subscribe to product specific feeds and get notification when articles are posted. Add these to existing RSS Feeds for product related Autodesk Discussion Groups and Autodesk Blogs and you have a huge information resource that’s working
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Shaan has posted links to White Papers for AutoCAD 2006 or AutoCAD 2006-Based Products. Between the Lines: AutoCAD 2006 White Papers - Networking, Migration, and Dynamic Blocks * Planning a Successful Network Installation * Installing the Network License Manager * Creating Network Deployments * Network Licensing Questions and Answers * Customising the AutoCAD 2006 Interface
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Prompted by Shaan's post on DWF precision I’ve been testing to see what impact increasing the DPI has in “real world” conditions. So far I’ve found ramping the DPI up to fairly huge values does increase the DWF file size, but not as much as I
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Goodbye to the current .dwg, and hello to new .dwgx based on XML and ZIP. Sorry, made that all up*. I got carried away after writing this post…. * It is true for DWF which is an open format that uses XML and ZIP as seen here
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Shaan has posted a useful conversion chart ( see right ) showing which settings to use to get a given precision in a DWF. DWF is capable of impressive precision but the default settings are rather low...
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Back in January I posted about Dilbert's Ultimate House which was a collaborative design project to find the perfect home for the comic strip geek legend created by Scott Adams. The readers contributed ideas, both serious and not so serious, which they thought would suit the cubicle dwellers
