The CAD Geek Blog

AutoCAD® software lets you design, visualize, and document your ideas clearly and efficiently. Initially released in late 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, and notably the IBM PC.

For the past couple weeks The CAD Geek Blog has been rather quiet.  Rest assured I haven’t abandoned my little corner of the CAD blogosphere, but rather took a little end-of-year vacation (Dec 17-Jan 1).  I started my vacation with grand plans of blogging almost non-stop, and finding new ways to break AutoCAD and Civil [...]

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It’s no secret, the modern-day processor race isn’t measured so much on how fast the processor is, but rather how many cores you have.  First we saw the Core Duo (2 cores) processors, then the Core 2 Duo’s (4 cores).  While your inner-geek can certainly brag about the number of cores inside your machine, [...]

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Just this evening I received an e-mail from Autodesk letting me know my AU Unplugged session "The Training Trinity: Fundamentals of a Successful Training Program" was accepted.  Thank you to everyone who voted for my session.  If you’re attending AU, be sure to check out the AU Unplugged Schedule.  There you will find the [...]

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More often than not, when the GROUP command comes up in discussion it’s because a user can’t figure out why their selection sets are going crazy.  Hence the reason I titled this post “GROUP Therapy”.  But in all seriousness, GROUPS can prove handy when you, and more importantly, your co-workers understand what they are [...]

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While I was unable to get a blog post put together last week, I did manage to finish developing a course on Annotative Scaling for my firms internal training program.  One nifty discovery I came across in developing the course was the variable ANNOTATIVEDWG.  So what exactly does this guy do?
Quite simply - it makes [...]

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