Ever since Microsoft launched Office 2007 the trend has undoubtedly shifted from the traditional interface employing menus and toolbars, to the “new and improved” ribbon. Users of vanilla AutoCAD got ribbonized with last year’s 2009 release. While a classic workspace…
While importing surface data from Google Earth is probably the easiest way to get some conceptual topographical data into your drawings, DEM’s have to be a close second. For the uninitiated, DEM’s or Digital Elevation Models could be described as…
Regardless of how you get your news, the reports over the last week have been especially depressing. 651,000 jobs were shed in February alone, or 15 jobs per minute, bringing the unemployment rate to 8.1%; the highest since 1983. Sadly…
The first week of March 2009 has proven to be rather eventful. On Sunday/Monday Richmond, VA saw it’s first real snow since 2005. Geeks got to celebrate square root day for the first time since 2/2/04 on Tuesday (3/3/09). As…
What a fun weekend! Richmond, VA (where I live) got it’s first real snow since 2005. While I know some who absolutely hate the thought of snow, I personally like it. Seems I’ve got at least one friend in my…
Among the “big new things” inside AutoCAD 2009 was of course a new user interface. At the heart of this new user interface was the all-new Ribbon. Love it or hate it, the ribbon is still inside AutoCAD 2010, but…
If you’ve been keeping up with the blogs, you’ve probably already read your share about parametric constraints/drafting, contextual ribbon, 3D modeling, and the like. Not to say those topics aren’t appreciated additions to AutoCAD, but to me sometimes the little…
I just recently returned home from San Francisco, CA where I was privileged enough to join some of the most popular AutoCAD bloggers in the blogosphere for the AutoCAD 2010 release event in San Francisco. Although we stayed incredibly busy…
Aside from a few odds and ends, I have finished packing & am incredibly excited to be travelling to San Francisco, CA. Tomorrow (Thursday 2/5/09) I will join some of the most esteemed bloggers in the AutoCAD blogosphere for a…
This is a bit of an oldie, but goodie. Civil 3D Pipe Label Styles can give me the Invert In or the Invert Out of a pipe, but not the invert between point a and point b. That limitation is…
With my 3-week vacation over, this week has been all about returning to reality. As with almost any vacation, this week has mostly been about getting caught up on everything I missed while on vacation. Thankfully it seems many…
As you may have noticed, there hasn’t been much activity here on The CAD Geek since AU. The reason for that is quite simply I have been on vacation since December 13. Today however was the end of my three-week…
