AutoCAD Tips & Tricks

Name That Page Setup and Win (Save) Money

by Donnie Gladfelter on April 18, 2010

in AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2007,AutoCAD 2008,AutoCAD 2009,AutoCAD 2010,AutoCAD 2011

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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Ditch excess RegApps & Speed Up Your Drawings

by Donnie Gladfelter on October 3, 2008

in AutoCAD 2008,AutoCAD 2009

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 [...]

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Customizing the AutoCAD 2009 Ribbon

March 26, 2008

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 [...]

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Introduction to AutoCAD Script Files

March 2, 2008

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 [...]

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Inserting DWG’s into MS Word or PowerPoint

November 1, 2007

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 full [...]

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Man that’s OVERKILL!!

February 7, 2007

On a somewhat frequent basis I get a call from a user desperate to rid their drawing of the plethora of duplicate objects that in one way or another has plagued their drawing. There is of course the grueling method of individually selecting each duplicated object and running the ERASE command, but surely there is [...]

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