Plotting is a topic so simple in theory, but yet so difficult in practice. Looking no further than my own firm, I can attest for the difficulties users encounter while plotting. Prior to standardizing the plotting process within my firm;…
Good employees are hard to find, and even harder to keep. While this virtue is undeniably true in just about any industry, I find it to be especially true within the engineering industry. Many have heard the timeless question; is…
No sleep til’ Christmas! Last week it was Autodesk University in Las Vegas, this week marks the start of our Layer Standard implementation. Getting to this milestone is incredibly exciting, as this implementation is the culmination of about a year…
Mine included, it seems that many of the AU Unplugged sessions had a lighter turn out than expected. Even with the limited attendance, I must say my session provided a great platform for some discussion I am certainly bringing home…
Those who read my last post, “Inserting DWG’s into MS Word or PowerPoint” may recall the mention I made about PDF Creator. Since it seems many of you were interested in that tool, I thought it may be appropriate to…
A special thanks to Lynn Allen for her presentation to the Richmond AutoCAD Manifest (RAM) Thursday night. After Lynn’s presentation I along with some other RAM members had a chance to chat with her. Numerous topics came up during the course…
Books, magazines, and even blogs about CAD Management oftentimes scare me. They scare me in the message they broadcast, even if not intentional, that after reading such and such title I can create a CAD Standard in 30 days and…
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…
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…
So here we are, more than half-way through March and I have yet to make a post this month. While I know it’s the oldest excuse in the book my only explanation is that I have been rather busy lately.…