AutoCAD
Align, the forgotten AutoCAD hero
A post on Daily AutoCAD , subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already, highlights a brilliant but often forgotten editing command. With “Align” you can move, rotate and scale an object while alignin...
Camtasia
Faultless typing in live demonstrations?
If you’ve watched a demonstration you’ve probably seen this! If you’ve presented you’ve done probably this! There is an alternative ! Demo shows Notepad with the ActiveWords Bar visible, i...
AutoCAD
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 Architecture 2008 - Easy access to Display Control
AutoCAD Architecture 2008 brings display to the fore by allowing direct access to Drawing, Style and Object display settings, including materials, from the Properties Palette. These settings were prev...
AutoCAD
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
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...
Camtasia
Visualising words for work and fun
I’ve posted about Visual Thesaurus before. It’s a web or stand-alone application that offers a remarkable visual tour of language. I have the on-line subscription so can use Visual Thesaurus...
AutoCAD Architecture
Themes to the rescue - Architectural Desktop Display Theme
One reason to prefer object based Architectural Desktop over line, arc, circle, hatch CAD; Devise a new display scheme for area spaces… In the library; Add a style based property to spa...
CAD/Software System Documentation with MindManager and Camtasia
Regular visitors may have noticed that I mention using MindManager and Camtasia for documentation . It’s difficult to share real content here without extensive editing to remove confidential informati...
Documenting Folder Structures with MindManager
There was a question on the Autodesk CAD Manager Discussion Group regarding methods for documenting file folder structures. I use a combination of tools depending on the need. If you simply want an im...
Weblogs
5 things "Memebuster"
Meme: An idea which mutates, is inherited like a gene and spreads like a virus I think it’s funny the “ 5 CAD things… ” meme*, which started with this post , is spreading across the CAD Blogosph...