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Converting a Drawings Coordinate System

Converting a Drawings Coordinate System

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 old [...]

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NewsGator & FeedDemon Now Free!

NewsGator & FeedDemon Now Free!

Over the last several years the number of CAD blogs, and blogs in general, have multiplied many times over.  Back when there were only a handful of CAD sites worth visiting, it wasn’t too tough to manually visit each one on a periodic basis.  These days that number has multiplied many times over, as [...]

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Layer Properties Per Viewport

Layer Properties Per Viewport

For the past couple weeks The CAD Geek Blog has been rather quiet.  Rest assured I haven’t abandoned my little corner of the CAD blogosphere, but rather took a little end-of-year vacation (Dec 17-Jan 1).  I started my vacation with grand plans of blogging almost non-stop, and finding new ways to break AutoCAD and Civil [...]

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