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Thematic Mapping for Engineers

July 27, 2007

Since I know everyone out there has joined AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) this is likely old news. Just in case you haven’t checked it out already, the latest issue of AUGIWorld (July/August) has a number of great articles in it including one from yours truly. Inside this issue is my article titles “Thematic Mapping [...]

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Isolating Individual Objects

June 18, 2007

Hidden for some time now in the lower right-hand corner of AutoCAD is a little light bulb. If you are like most, you have simply let this little light bulb burn –wasting electricity. At first glance it may seem a little out of place. After all light bulbs belong in the layer manager– right? Even [...]

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Geospatial Data in a DWF file

April 19, 2007

In observance of the “National Orange Effect Day” The CAD Geek Blog is proudly displaying the colors of Virginia Tech – Orange and Maroon. Those of us who work with geospatial data (aka GIS Data) know how incredibly valuable the data can be. Living in the digital age of the 21st century, the one thing always [...]

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Linear Quantities Made Quick

March 27, 2007

As Published in the March/April 2007 AUGI World Magazine Somewhere in the lifecycle of nearly every project there will come a time where quantities must be calculated. Regardless if they are a part of a review agencies requirements, or in-house needs insuring your project isn’t over budget – calculating quantities is quite simply no fun. [...]

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Autodesk AutoCAD 2008 Release Dates

March 21, 2007

After taking a look through some reader feedback it seems a fair number of you have reached my blog looking for the release dates for the 2008 civil product line. In light of that response I went out and did some searching of my own to uncover what, as best I can tell, are the [...]

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