Quick Quantities using Field Conversion Factors

May 16, 2011

The long list of inquiry tools within AutoCAD provide many ways to approach the task of performing quantity takeoffs on your drawings. Yet as powerful as these tools are, one limitation that has long challenged me is way 1 doesn’t always equal 1 in the context of quantity takeoffs. A common example of this is [...]

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Help Shape the Future of AutoCAD

April 22, 2011

Having just wrapped up a series of 2012 Autodesk Product Launch events, it’s hard for me to even start thinking about next year’s release. Of course, for Autodesk to meet their annual release cycle, you better believe they’ve already started thinking about AutoCAD 2013 and beyond. In fact, Autodesk is currently conducting a survey on [...]

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AutoCAD 2012: First Look at Rectangular Arrays

March 29, 2011

Along with their complete line of 2012 products, Autodesk told the world about AutoCAD 2012 (now shipping) during their annual product launch event. While individual products were certainly an important component of the product launch event, they were not the most important element. More importantly was the way Autodesk will assemble its product portfolio into [...]

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Creating Metric Drawing Sheets with Imperial Page Sizes

February 11, 2011

Although imperial measurements remain the prevalent standard in the U.S., a growing number of projects are indeed utilizing metric measurements. This combination of both imperial and metric measurements creates a unique challenge for many architects and engineers. After all we’re taught paper space (layouts) should always be 1:1, yet using a standard imperial paper size [...]

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Upcoming Events with The CAD Geek

January 31, 2011

We’re already a full month into the New Year, and I certainly hope 2011 is off to a wonderful start for you and your company! Personally, I’m very excited to make my first of many public presentations for 2011 next week. The first will be an exciting event discussing AutoCAD for Mac at the Bethesda [...]

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The CAD Geek Celebrates 5 Years

January 24, 2011

I’m excited to announce that this month The CAD Geek Blog reached a milestone – its 5th anniversary! The fifth anniversary date was actually January 17, 2011 (last Monday), but like these past five years, the date flew by rather quickly as I continue to author the update to my current book AutoCAD 2011: No [...]

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