April 2009

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Undocumented Civil 3D Commands for Sites

By Donnie Gladfelter on April 20, 2009

A couple weeks ago, I had what some would call the perfect storm; a major deadline, crashing grading drawings, and managerial pressure to get it fixed yesterday. Trouble was, regardless of the series of commands I threw at the troublesome drawings, the errors remained, and the drawings continued to crash. In fact, there was a [...]

Posted in Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Civil 3D, Feature Lines, Sites, Undocumented Command | 4 Responses

Trick for Stubborn Annotative Objects

By Donnie Gladfelter on April 14, 2009

After taking off a few days last week I am finally getting back into the swing of things. Just before I left for vacation last week we had a pretty ugly support issue spring up. I really have to commend the folks at Autodesk and Avatech (my reseller) for the help they provided. While troubleshooting [...]

Posted in AutoCAD | Tagged Annotative, AutoCAD, OPTIONS | 3 Responses

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 – Available for Download

By Donnie Gladfelter on April 9, 2009

The blogosphere has been talking about it for a while now, but until today, you haven’t been able to get AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010. I just checked the Subscription Center and found a very welcome addition to the Product Downloads section. That’s right, anyone on Autodesk Subscription for AutoCAD Civil 3D can download the 2010 [...]

Posted in Civil 3D 2010 | Tagged Civil 3D 2010, Download, Subscription | 10 Responses

Lynn Allen AutoCAD 2010 Tips & Tricks Now Available

By Donnie Gladfelter on April 8, 2009

Here in Richmond, VA it’s spring break for the local schools, and with Helen being a school teacher I thought I’d take off a few days myself. Nonetheless, one thing that did hit my mailbox early this week was an e-mail from Mark Kiker, president of AUGI, letting me know Lynn Allen had agreed to [...]

Posted in AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged AutoCAD 2010, Impression, Lynn Allen, Tips & Tricks | 2 Responses

AutoCAD Pranks for April Fools Day

By Donnie Gladfelter on April 1, 2009

Not too long before the launch event for AutoCAD 2010, Shaan Hurley made a post on his blog “Office AutoCAD Pranks”. Shaan’s post ended up being the topic of discussion for one of the more candid conversations the bloggers Autodesk invited to San Francisco had. I don’t need to tell you what can happen when [...]

Posted in AutoCAD | Tagged AutoCAD, Pranks | 22 Responses