August 2007

Autodesk University & 25th Anniversary

by Donnie Gladfelter on August 29, 2007

in AU 2007,Autodesk U

http://au.autodesk.com/2007 For those who don’t know, registration for this year’s Autodesk University is in full swing. AU 2007 is definitely shaping up to be one of the biggest ever with a projection for nearly 10,000 attendees. Wow ? that’s a lot of people. AU 2007 is going to be my first AU, so I am [...]

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Composing Parcel Label Styles in Civil 3D 2008

by Donnie Gladfelter on August 25, 2007

in Civil 3D,Civil 3D 2008

New to Civil 3D 2008 is the ability to create composed parcel labels. Before the introduction of composed parcel label styles, one would have to configure a separate parcel label style for each labeling scenario. Or in other words, a style to show the parcels area in square feet, another to show it in acres, [...]

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Quickly Link Excel Tables to AutoCAD

August 15, 2007

Since being posted back in April my post titled Linking Excel and AutoCAD with Data Links has been one of the most visited pages here on The CAD Geek Blog. In that post I go through what I will call the manual way of linking an Excel table to AutoCAD. Thus unless you are a [...]

Upgrading to AutoCAD 2008

August 9, 2007

Alas â€“ my firm has finished our AutoCAD 2008 upgrade. In the timeframe of about a month we upgraded a little more than 250 users in our 7 engineering offices. Some would call the mere thought of upgrading that many users in such a short timeframe crazy, but even still we did it. Thankfully we [...]

Map 3D Drawing Status Bar in Civil 3D

August 2, 2007

Civil 3D users â€“ did you know that Map 3D has a specialized drawing status bar? It seems the typical Civil 3D user knows little to nothing about the abilities of Map 3D. As those who do use it know, Map 3D is an incredibly powerful geospatial tool. Autodesk did publish their “GIS Skills for [...]