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Introduction to the AutoCAD 2009 Action Recorder Video
Goodness, am I not the worst blogger ever? My apologies to all of my loyal readers; last week was quite a monumental week. As I have mentioned a few times before, The CAD Geek is something I do in my free time. Consequently the time I would have otherwise spent blogging, was spent putting [...]
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Update Block Attributes Using Excel
My post titled “Quickly Link Excel Tables to AutoCAD” from last August continues to be one of my most popular posts to date. As a result I have received a number of e-mails from readers such as you asking about other ways to link Excel data with AutoCAD data. A popular variation has been asking [...]
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AutoCAD 2009: Quick View Layout & Drawing Video Introduction
Many within the CAD industry (myself included) coined AutoCAD 2008 the “Wish List Release”. After many years of asking, we were finally given things like annotative scaling and multileaders. AutoCAD 2009 seems to continue that to some degree, but it’s true focus is the UI (User Interface) itself. Looking back, the last time we [...]
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Bring All Text To Front and a Wii Tip
This time last week I was at the beautiful Snowshoe Mountain in West Virginia. Slope conditions were rather nice for the entire weekend, so myself and the group I was with got some great runs in! In the evenings when we were not skiing we ended up playing Nintendo Wii.
Of course the Nintendo Wii [...]
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Commas in Sheet Set Manager
Sheet Set Manager has certainly made it much easier to create, manage, and plot drawing sheets. Even still, SSM is not without it’s flaws. Perhaps one of my all-time SSM annoyances is the fact you cannot insert a comma in a SSM field. So how did I put a comma in the illustration above?
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