January 2008

Commas in Sheet Set Manager

by Donnie Gladfelter on January 31, 2008

in AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2007,AutoCAD 2008,AutoCAD 2009

Sheet Set Manager has certainly made it much easier to create, manage, and plot drawing sheets.  Even still, SSM is not without it’s flaws.  Perhaps one of my all-time SSM annoyances is the fact you cannot insert a comma in a SSM field.  So how did I put a comma in the illustration above?

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My First Week With Vista

by Donnie Gladfelter on January 24, 2008

in Windows

  Wednesday, January 16, 2008, the day in which I decided to say goodbye to my beloved Windows XP and hello to the monster known as Windows Vista.  Be it press releases from numerous government agencies, or the ever entertaining Apple I’m a Mac, I’m a PC ads – Vista hasn’t found too many friends.  [...]

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Adding LISP, VB apps, and more to Tool Palettes

January 22, 2008

By now Tool Palettes have probably become a staple of your workspace.  We can put all sorts of things on Tool Palettes; lines and blocks being the most common.  While lines and blocks on tool palettes add a degree of sanity for many, wouldn’t it be nice if we could say add a LISP routine, [...]

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MS Office 2003 Stops Opening Files

January 14, 2008

In September of last year, Microsoft released Service Pack 3 for its Microsoft Office 2003 system.  Along with fixing numerous bugs, they seem to have caused another.  To sum things up, Service Pack 3 disables a users ability to open pre Office 2003 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) documents. Today I got a call from one [...]

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There are those days…

January 14, 2008

As much as we all love AutoCAD, it too has it’s days.  Inevitably those seem to happen on submittal days.  I too was having one of those days a few days ago when a coworker sent me the following image.

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Converting a Drawings Coordinate System

January 11, 2008

For one reason or another drawings sometimes need to be moved from one coordinate system (datum) to another.  A classic example may be moving from a NAD 27 datum to a NAD 83.  Whatever the case may be, how might one perform this translation as accurately as possible? To answer that I turn to good [...]

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