April 2010

Weekly Roundup – Civil 3D Edition: Visualization Extension, Storm and Sanitary Analysis, & Bridge Modeler

by Donnie Gladfelter on April 30, 2010

in Civil 3D

As mentioned in my last post “Weekly Roundup – AutoCAD Edition”, far too many cool things happened this week. In fact, it was too much for just one “Roundup” post, and I had to split into two “Roundups”; an AutoCAD edition and a Civil 3D edition. Here are some of the cool things Civil 3D [...]

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Weekly Roundup – AutoCAD Edition: AutoCAD 2010 Update, AUGI Wishlists, & AutoCAD Internet Survey

by Donnie Gladfelter on April 30, 2010

in AutoCAD

I don’t typically do “Weekly Roundup” posts, but there’s only so many posts one blogger can crank out in one week, and well the number of worthwhile announcements exceeded that threshold this week. Bad news if you’re a blogger trying to write about all the cool things you come across, EXCELLENT news if you’re an [...]

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Dynamically Combine AutoCAD Data Extraction Tables with Excel Tables

April 28, 2010

Anyone who follows me on twitter got a heads up about this post yesterday. Ever since its introduction in 2008, Excel table linking has been one of my favorite features inside AutoCAD. Likewise, it seems I’m not alone with that notion, as my posts discussing AutoCAD and Excel interoperability are consistently some of my post [...]

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Autodesk turns 28 and releases a Low-Cost version of AutoCAD

April 26, 2010

Just in case you were looking for reason to celebrate on an otherwise uneventful Monday, today is Autodesk’s 28th birthday! For those keeping tabs, that makes me 13 days younger than Autodesk; my birthday is May 9, 1982. I can’t tell if this is by coincidence or not, but I’m going to say it wasn’t. [...]

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Maximize the Power of Page Setups by Importing

April 21, 2010

Continuing the topic of using Named Page Setups (started with my last post titled “Name That Page Setup and Win (Save) Money”) to help you more efficiently manage plotting I wanted to take a look at how you might implement their use in the real world. The true versatility in Named Page Setups is found [...]

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Name That Page Setup and Win (Save) Money

April 18, 2010

AutoCAD provides an almost infinite number of possibilities when preparing a drawing for plotting. Setting up drawing to plot is like an artist making a reproduction of a painting; the two paintings will look very similar, but they’ll never look exactly the same. This is much like plotting in AutoCAD; you’ll probably find the right [...]

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