May 2007

The Disappearing CUI

by Donnie Gladfelter on May 29, 2007

in AutoCAD,AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2007,AutoCAD 2008

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I know the long weekend was a welcome retreat for me. Of course the flip side to the long weekend is that I returned to the office thinking today was Monday. Now that I am back on course with what day of the week it is I [...]

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Creating Circular Viewports

by Donnie Gladfelter on May 23, 2007

in AutoCAD,AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2007,AutoCAD 2008

Do excuse my slight absence from making any new and substantial posts here over the past couple weeks. Just last week the May/June 2007 AUGI World magazine was shipped. Just as the May/June issue was shipped the submission deadline for the July/August AUGI World came up. As you may have guessed I will have another [...]

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AUGI World First Look at Civil 3D 2008

May 16, 2007

The May/June issue of AUGIWorld has been released. Inside this issue is a First Look at Civil 3D 2008 (pg. 22) written by yours truly. The article takes a quick look at a number of the new features within AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008, and then dives into using the new Plan Production feature. I intend [...]

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Track Plotting from AutoCAD for FREE

May 9, 2007

Well today I just saved a lot of money on my car insurance, and I didn’t even have to switch my insurance to Geico. In fact the only thing I had to do was wait for the clock to strike midnight. Today my friend is my 25th birthday. At exactly one-quarter-century old, I am officially [...]

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Separate Annotation Scales Per Viewport

May 8, 2007

Dana Probert over at the Engineered Efficiency Civil3D.com blog wrote about quickly changing your Civil 3D Drawing Scale with the new Annotation Scale. Using the Annotation Scale fly out on the Status Bar we can quickly change our Civil 3D Drawing Scale. Those familiar with previous versions of Civil 3D will recall having to go [...]

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Making Blocks Annotative

May 1, 2007

If you have been keeping up with AutoCAD 2008, you know the idea behind Annotative Scaling as it relates to text. The general concept to make it possible to do in one object what once required we use multiple objects. I am of course speaking about copying a piece of text numerous times just so [...]

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