AutoCAD 2009: Quick View Layout & Drawing Video Introduction
Many within the CAD industry (myself included) coined AutoCAD 2008 the “Wish List Release”. After many years of asking, we were finally given things like annotative scaling and multileaders. AutoCAD 2009 seems to continue that to some degree, but it’s true focus is the UI (User Interface) itself. Looking back, the last time we [...]
Popularity: 69% [?]
Introduction to the AutoCAD 2009 Ribbon
Last Tuesday MSNBC, CNN, and every other American news outlet dubbed February 5, 2008 as “Super Tuesday”. Seeing that Virginia (where I live) wasn’t included in the Super Tuesday primaries; Super Tuesday wasn’t much different than any other Tuesday. Fast-forward a week to February 12, 2008, and you get what I call a Super Tuesday! [...]
Popularity: 85% [?]
Bring All Text To Front and a Wii Tip
This time last week I was at the beautiful Snowshoe Mountain in West Virginia. Slope conditions were rather nice for the entire weekend, so myself and the group I was with got some great runs in! In the evenings when we were not skiing we ended up playing Nintendo Wii.
Of course the Nintendo Wii [...]
Popularity: 48% [?]
Commas in Sheet Set Manager
Sheet Set Manager has certainly made it much easier to create, manage, and plot drawing sheets. Even still, SSM is not without it’s flaws. Perhaps one of my all-time SSM annoyances is the fact you cannot insert a comma in a SSM field. So how did I put a comma in the illustration above?
Popularity: [...]
Popularity: 45% [?]
Adding LISP, VB apps, and more to Tool Palettes
By now Tool Palettes have probably become a staple of your workspace. We can put all sorts of things on Tool Palettes; lines and blocks being the most common. While lines and blocks on tool palettes add a degree of sanity for many, wouldn’t it be nice if we could say add a LISP [...]
Popularity: 37% [?]
