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By Donnie Gladfelter on April 21, 2010
Continuing the topic of using Named Page Setups (started with my last post titled “Name That Page Setup and Win (Save) Money”) to help you more efficiently manage plotting I wanted to take a look at how you might implement their use in the real world. The true versatility in Named Page Setups is found [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on April 18, 2010
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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By Donnie Gladfelter on February 4, 2010
Many veteran users already know this tip, as it has been around for a while now. Still, for the uninitiated figuring out how to get text both above and below a dimension line (without breaking the line) can quickly resemble one of those puzzles where you have to get a metal ring off an interwoven [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on April 8, 2009
Here in Richmond, VA it’s spring break for the local schools, and with Helen being a school teacher I thought I’d take off a few days myself. Nonetheless, one thing that did hit my mailbox early this week was an e-mail from Mark Kiker, president of AUGI, letting me know Lynn Allen had agreed to [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on April 7, 2008
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 a [...]
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