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…
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…
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…
POST UPDATED: We’ve authored an updated version of this post using AutoCAD 2016. The updated post includes a video demonstration of the process discussed in this post. My post titled “Quickly Link Excel Tables to AutoCAD” from last August continues…
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…
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…
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…
By now Tool Palettes have probably become a staple of your workspace. We can put all sorts of things on Tool Palettes; lines and blocks being the most common. While lines and blocks on tool palettes add a degree of…
For one reason or another drawings sometimes need to be moved from one coordinate system (datum) to another. A classic example may be moving from a NAD 27 datum to a NAD 83. Whatever the case may be, how might…
For the past couple weeks The CAD Geek Blog has been rather quiet. Rest assured I haven’t abandoned my little corner of the CAD blogosphere, but rather took a little end-of-year vacation (Dec 17-Jan 1). I started my vacation with…
It’s no secret, the modern-day processor race isn’t measured so much on how fast the processor is, but rather how many cores you have. First we saw the Core Duo (2 cores) processors, then the Core 2 Duo’s (4 cores). …
More often than not, when the GROUP command comes up in discussion it’s because a user can’t figure out why their selection sets are going crazy. Hence the reason I titled this post “GROUP Therapy”. But in all seriousness, GROUPS…