AutoCAD

Trick for Stubborn Annotative Objects

By Donnie Gladfelter on April 14, 2009

After taking off a few days last week I am finally getting back into the swing of things. Just before I left for vacation last week we had a pretty ugly support issue spring up. I really have to commend the folks at Autodesk and Avatech (my reseller) for the help they provided. While troubleshooting [...]

Posted in AutoCAD | Tagged Annotative, AutoCAD, OPTIONS | 3 Responses

AutoCAD Pranks for April Fools Day

By Donnie Gladfelter on April 1, 2009

Not too long before the launch event for AutoCAD 2010, Shaan Hurley made a post on his blog “Office AutoCAD Pranks”. Shaan’s post ended up being the topic of discussion for one of the more candid conversations the bloggers Autodesk invited to San Francisco had. I don’t need to tell you what can happen when [...]

Posted in AutoCAD | Tagged AutoCAD, Pranks | 22 Responses

CAD Geek Poll – What are your 2010 upgrade plans?

By Donnie Gladfelter on March 25, 2009

AutoCAD 2010 (and most other 2010 products) were launched this week, and the question begins to shift from “what’s new” to “will I upgrade”. Judging from the last poll I ran here on The CAD Geek, it seems the vast majority of you (45%) are running the latest release (2009), but what does the future [...]

Posted in AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Poll | 6 Responses

AutoCAD 2010 – First Look at Parametric Constraints

By Donnie Gladfelter on February 6, 2009

I just recently returned home from San Francisco, CA where I was privileged enough to join some of the most popular AutoCAD bloggers in the blogosphere for the AutoCAD 2010 release event in San Francisco. Although we stayed incredibly busy throughout the day Thursday, I must say I really did have a great time at [...]

Posted in AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, features, Parametric Constraints | 19 Responses

Setting Up & Configuring a Distributed License Server

By Donnie Gladfelter on August 26, 2008

The task of configuring a license server can be a daunting task. Just the name itself implies cancel all of my afternoon meetings, get me some coffee, I’m going to be here a while. Thankfully that’s just the stigma surrounding the configuration of license files. Knowing that some of the other documentation out there can [...]

Posted in AutoCAD | Tagged AutoCAD, Civil 3D, FlexLM, License Server, LMTOOLS | 12 Responses