AutoCAD
Have your say on the future of AutoCAD, with an Amazon reward! Call for Participants: Feedback Session at Autodesk We are seeking participants for an upcoming user research study. If you are a Mac user and you frequently work with CAD software (it could be AutoCAD or any other drafting
You may have noticed a slight lack of 2012 related posts here. It’s because I’ve been a bit slack getting it installed (although to be fair my Revit Suite codes only showed up last week) so haven’t had a chance to try the release versions. I’ll
Do you see the notification bubble warning External Reference files have changed when they haven’t? I have seen this on legacy files referencing Xrefs which haven’t been edited for, literally, years. 1. Take note of the reference name 2. Open it. Right Click > Open Xref or open
While publishing in AutoCAD Architecture I was prompted to save the current list of sheets (which I wanted to this time) and mistakenly ticked the “Always perform my current choice option” on the dialog. This changes the default and and hides the dialog in future. The result was every time
While users come to Autodesk University to learn it’s also a great opportunity for Autodesk to hear from their customers. There are exhibit hall conversations, user interviews and usability sessions. There are lots of AutoCAD users and I wonder how they all fit into the little AutoCAD User Research
I have been working with AutoCAD Architecture AEC Spaces for years. They are a polyline’like object with a boundary (which since 2004 could be edited with grips Polylines got in 2011) and hatch fill. Spaces have an Osnap’able centre which is rather useful for placing tags (the default
iPhone
Shaan has the details, Apple Mac + AutoCAD without the need for virtual machines and a hosted solution for the iOS hardware! AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS for iOS Devices Announced by Autodesk - Between the Lines “AutoCAD natively on the Mac is no longer a myth or urban legend
One of the joys of working “downstream” is you get what you’re given. Depending on the source incoming projects could be based on a Revit/ACA Model, AutoCAD file, Image/scan, PDF or export from another CAD system. Today an ex-ArchiCAD dwg fooled me when it started masking content
Working in old files brings out some obscure problems. Items long since established, corrected, in templates/projects leap out of the past to confound you again. This time it was an ancient old site reference file that refused to insert correctly scaled. That can happen if sites are drawn 1
AutoCAD
Lynn Allen recently posted some awesome video tour/demo/training media. A series of short videos lead you through the new and improved features in AutoCAD 2011. Of particular interest to me were the enhanced 3D tools, especially as AutoCAD now offers surfacing tools more often seen in dedicated mechanical
According to Outlook, today marked thirteen years since I joined The Warehouse Limited. Coincidentally, yesterday a question regarding the area of a long closed store had me ferreting through an old plan* (below left) which represented TWL store design at about that time. Since then we have evolved from 2D
A while back Edwin, of CAD Notes blog, contacted me regarding a post he was compiling. He had the ambitious target of gathering 100 AutoCAD tips from his own and other blogs into one reference. If you’ve ever written a “tip post” you’ll have some idea of the
