AutoCAD® software lets you design, visualize, and document your ideas clearly and efficiently. Initially released in late 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, and notably the IBM PC.
The task of configuring a license server can be a daunting task. Just the name itself implies cancel all of my afternoon meetings, get me some coffee, I’m going to be here a while. Thankfully that’s just the stigma surrounding…
Object Snaps (OSNAP) are among the most fundamental AutoCAD topics I know. Without them, drawing two intersecting lines can be described as arbitrary at best. A lesser known OSNAP function is this thing called Object Snap Tracking. Simply put, Object…
I was just looking back upon some of the topics I have covered in my 100+ posts here at The CAD Geek. Naturally I have covered a lot of topics, but one topic I was embarrassed to see virtually unexplored…
Autodesk began shipping many of their 2009 products starting Monday. Among those released is their flagship product, AutoCAD 2009. If you just can’t wait until your subscription shipment makes its way to your doorstep, a fully-functioning 30 day trial can…
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…
Attributed blocks can be incredibly powerful, but they do sometimes have their issues. Among those is one I personally came across here recently as I was working to update the text style of an attribute definition. Quite simply, the attribute…
Although each release of AutoCAD translates to bigger and arguably better features one thing has never changed; its malleability. In fact some would argue the malleability of the software as being its best feature. Be it the CUI command, LISP…
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…
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). …