Archive for January 2008

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Commas in Sheet Set Manager

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

 
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.  Despite [...]

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Adding LISP, VB apps, and more to Tool Palettes

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 [...]

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MS Office 2003 Stops Opening Files

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.
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There are those days…

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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