September 2007

Virginia Tech has naturally received a lot of media attention since the terror of April 16, 2007.  Tomorrow (Saturday) happens to be Homecoming for tech where they will play North Carolina.  As Enter Sandman finishes playing, and the clock ticks down, the Virginia Tech Hokies will hopefully be 4-1 for the season.  But why am [...]

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In just the last few days alone I have received 5 support requests from my users about this issue. Seeing that I haven?t seen a lot written about it, I thought I would make a quick post about the Perpetual Annotation Scale List bug in AutoCAD 2008. This issue is most often noticed when users [...]

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Finding the 3D in Map 3D: Surface Visualization

September 24, 2007

The September / October issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download.  The cover story for this issue is “A First Good Impression”.  Impression is a brand new program that Autodesk released this year which allows you to give your CAD drawings a hand sketched look.  Anyone faced with creating such exhibits and illustrations will [...]

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Creating Script Files with Excel

September 18, 2007

Script files seem to be one of the many forgotten frontiers of AutoCAD.  “Back in the day” I knew of many CAD users who couldn’t go a day without running a script file or two.  These days – not so much.  Even still, the trick of yesterday can still help solve many tedious and mundane [...]

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Site Functionality

September 11, 2007

Last night I was performing some routine site maintenance.  After finishing things up I went around verifying everything still functioned as expected, and well came across one item that didn’t. The “Contact Me” e-mail form apparently hasn’t been sending e-mails to me for some time now.  Thus if you have sent me an e-mail and [...]

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Importing & Elevating GIS Contours – Part 2

September 10, 2007

In my last post titled “Importing & Elevating GIS Contours – Part 1″ I discussed a way for us to import GIS Data into an AutoCAD Drawing as AutoCAD entities.  While I spoke in context of using it to import GIS contours, truth be known, the process outlined in part 1 can be used for [...]

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