June 2007

Managing Layout Tabs in AutoCAD 2008

by Donnie Gladfelter on June 21, 2007

in AutoCAD 2008

If you have kept up with the new features packed within AutoCAD 2008 you have likely read a small novel worth of articles about Annotative Scaling. Now don’t get me wrong, Annotative Scaling is a really cool new feature, but lots of other smaller features have gone without a lot of fanfare. My firm is [...]

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Isolating Individual Objects

by Donnie Gladfelter on June 18, 2007

in Civil 3D,Civil 3D 2008,Map 3D

Hidden for some time now in the lower right-hand corner of AutoCAD is a little light bulb. If you are like most, you have simply let this little light bulb burn –wasting electricity. At first glance it may seem a little out of place. After all light bulbs belong in the layer manager– right? Even [...]

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Design Review’s Digital Light Table

June 7, 2007

For years now I personally have been convinced the DWF format is far superior to the PDF format. Until recently I represented a small minority, as most people still preferred the older and more established PDF format. In the past year or so it seems that the tides are changing, and more people are willing [...]

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The Truth About Deploying Civil 3D

June 6, 2007

So I must confess, this post was born as a response to an e-mail I recently received from one of my readers. As I began writing my response it became overly apparent to me that my response was one that could benefit more than just one reader, and thus the moment I decided to make [...]

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