Upgrading to AutoCAD 2008
Alas, my firm has finished our AutoCAD 2008 upgrade. In the timeframe of about a month we upgraded a little more than 250 users in our 7 engineering offices. Some would call the mere thought of upgrading that many users…
Donnie Gladfelter
Donnie is author of the book and Autodesk Official Press, AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT: No Experience Required, a columnist for AUGIWorld Magazine, Autodesk University speaker, and former member of the AUGI Board of Directors.
Map 3D Drawing Status Bar in Civil 3D
Civil 3D users – did you know that Map 3D has a specialized drawing status bar? It seems the typical Civil 3D user knows little to nothing about the abilities of Map 3D. As those who do use it know,…
AutoCAD Professional Tips and Techniques
The last several months have been especially busy for me, with July being the busiest. After all July has been my firms (Timmons Group) AutoCAD 2008 upgrade month. Amidst getting deployments ready to be installed and making needed infrastructure changes,…
Thematic Mapping for Engineers
Since I know everyone out there has joined AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) this is likely old news. Just in case you haven’t checked it out already, the latest issue of AUGIWorld (July/August) has a number of great articles in…
Service Pack 1 for 2008 Civil Products Released
After much anticipation, all of the civil service packs have been released. Note there are two different service packs for Land Desktop and Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 Service Pack Issues Resolved AutoCAD Civil 3D Land…
Multileaders – Part 2
After a much needed and most enjoyable vacation to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, I am back in the office. My first two days back to the office have been both busy and exciting, as Monday kicked off our…
Multileaders – Part 1
So this post actually comes to you from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This week I am getting some much needed rest & relaxation by soaking up some rays along the Atlantic coast. Being a bit of an avid…
Managing Layout Tabs in AutoCAD 2008
If you have kept up with the new features packed within AutoCAD 2008 you have likely read a small novel worth of articles about Annotative Scaling. Now don’t get me wrong, Annotative Scaling is a really cool new feature, but…
Isolating Individual Objects
Hidden for some time now in the lower right-hand corner of AutoCAD is a little light bulb. If you are like most, you have simply let this little light bulb burn –wasting electricity. At first glance it may seem a…
Design Review’s Digital Light Table
For years now I personally have been convinced the DWF format is far superior to the PDF format. Until recently I represented a small minority, as most people still preferred the older and more established PDF format. In the past…
The Truth About Deploying Civil 3D
So I must confess, this post was born as a response to an e-mail I recently received from one of my readers. As I began writing my response it became overly apparent to me that my response was one that…
The Disappearing CUI
Hopefully everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I know the long weekend was a welcome retreat for me. Of course the flip side to the long weekend is that I returned to the office thinking today was Monday. Now…