January 2008

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Commas in Sheet Set Manager

By Donnie Gladfelter on January 31, 2008

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?

Posted in AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009 | Tagged AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, Tips & Tricks | 17 Responses

My First Week With Vista

By Donnie Gladfelter on January 24, 2008

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. [...]

Posted in Windows | Tagged Microsoft, Windows Vista | 2 Responses

Adding LISP, VB apps, and more to Tool Palettes

By Donnie Gladfelter on 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, [...]

Posted in AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009 | Tagged AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, LISP, Tips & Tricks, Tool Palettes, VB | 15 Responses

MS Office 2003 Stops Opening Files

By Donnie Gladfelter on 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 [...]

Posted in Other Software | Tagged Microsoft, Office 2003 | 1 Response

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