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 [...]
Ditch excess RegApps & Speed Up Your Drawings
October 3, 2008 by 4 Comments
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 [...]
Introduction to the AutoCAD 2009 Action Recorder Video
April 7, 2008 by 18 Comments
Goodness, am I not the worst blogger ever? My apologies to all of my loyal readers; last week was quite a monumental week. As I have mentioned a few times before, The CAD Geek is something I do in my free time. Consequently the time I would have otherwise spent blogging, was spent putting a [...]
Customizing the AutoCAD 2009 Ribbon
March 26, 2008 by 22 Comments
Autodesk began shipping many of their 2009 products starting Monday. Among those released is their flagship product, AutoCAD 2009. If you just can’t wait until your subscription shipment makes its way to your doorstep, a fully-functioning 30 day trial can be downloaded from the Autodesk website. As I have said in some previous posts, the [...]
Updating an Attribute Text Style
March 6, 2008 by 12 Comments
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 [...]
Introduction to AutoCAD Script Files
March 2, 2008 by 94 Comments
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 [...]
