AutoCAD 2006
AutoCAD® 2006, the 20th release of AutoCAD software, increases efficiency with across-the-board improvements to bring productivity up and lag time down.
By Donnie Gladfelter on 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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By Donnie Gladfelter on 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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By Donnie Gladfelter on April 4, 2010
Out in San Francisco during the AutoCAD 2011 Product Launch Event I took a first look at 3D Surfaces inside AutoCAD 2011. As powerful as 3D AutoCAD has become, 2D remains a mainstay of what many AutoCAD users do on a daily basis. After all it’s still 2D plan sheets that get things built. On [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on August 21, 2009
One of the greatest features of AutoCAD is how much you can tailor it to meet your individual needs. To me, what’s even better than the ability to customize your workspace, is the fact Autodesk makes it incredibly easy to get things back to the way they were if you happen to over customize your [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on March 6, 2008
Attributed blocks can be incredibly powerful, but they do sometimes have their issues. Among those is one I personally came across here recently as I was working to update the text style of an attribute definition. Quite simply, the attribute text was defined correctly in the AutoCAD Block Editor (BEDIT command), but displayed the incorrect [...]
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