AutoCAD 2008

Maximize the Power of Page Setups by Importing

by Donnie Gladfelter on April 21, 2010

in AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2007,AutoCAD 2008,AutoCAD 2009,AutoCAD 2010,AutoCAD 2011

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

by Donnie Gladfelter on April 18, 2010

in AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2007,AutoCAD 2008,AutoCAD 2009,AutoCAD 2010,AutoCAD 2011

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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Reset CUI verses Restore CUI – What’s the difference?

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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Ditch excess RegApps & Speed Up Your Drawings

October 3, 2008

So you have this drawing, and despite clearing our your Annotative Scale List, running the PURGE command, even clearing out your layer filters the gosh darn drawing is still slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.  And even after all of that, your drawing is still 1 MB in size – what [...]

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Updating an Attribute Text Style

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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Introduction to AutoCAD Script Files

March 2, 2008

Although each release of AutoCAD translates to bigger and arguably better features one thing has never changed; its malleability. In fact some would argue the malleability of the software as being its best feature. Be it the CUI command, LISP routines, or even VBA and .NET applications. Each of these features is included in the [...]

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