AutoCAD 2011

The long list of inquiry tools within AutoCAD provide many ways to approach the task of performing quantity takeoffs on your drawings. Yet as powerful as these tools are, one limitation that has long challenged me is way 1 doesn’t always equal 1 in the context of quantity takeoffs. A common example of this is [...]

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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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First look at Hatching and Transparency in AutoCAD 2011

April 4, 2010

Out in San Francisco during the AutoCAD 2011 Product Launch Event I took a first look at 3D Surfaces inside AutoCAD 2011. As powerful as 3D AutoCAD has become, 2D remains a mainstay of what many AutoCAD users do on a daily basis. After all it’s still 2D plan sheets that get things built. On [...]

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First look at Surface Modeling in AutoCAD 2011

March 25, 2010

Hopefully everyone caught the AutoCAD 2011 Product Launch Webcast this morning. For those of us here in San Francisco we’re getting to meet with many of the key players behind the AutoCAD product. Right now Guillermo Melantoni from the What a Mesh! blog is presenting the 3D modeling enhancements found inside AutoCAD 2011. Earlier I [...]

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