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…
Last Tuesday MSNBC, CNN, and every other American news outlet dubbed February 5, 2008 as “Super Tuesday”. Seeing that Virginia (where I live) wasn’t included in the Super Tuesday primaries; Super Tuesday wasn’t much different than any other Tuesday. Fast-forward…
Over the last several months I have been working my way through the ever popular Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 book, written by the gang over at Civil3D.com (Engineered Efficiency). As a fellow member of the blogosphere, I have had…
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…
Wednesday, January 16, 2008, the day in which I decided to say goodbye to my beloved Windows XP and hello to the monster known as Windows Vista. Be it press releases from numerous government agencies, or the ever entertaining…
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…
In September of last year, Microsoft released Service Pack 3 for its Microsoft Office 2003 system. Along with fixing numerous bugs, they seem to have caused another. To sum things up, Service Pack 3 disables a users ability to open…
As much as we all love AutoCAD, it too has it’s days. Inevitably those seem to happen on submittal days. I too was having one of those days a few days ago when a coworker sent me the following image.
For one reason or another drawings sometimes need to be moved from one coordinate system (datum) to another. A classic example may be moving from a NAD 27 datum to a NAD 83. Whatever the case may be, how might…
Over the last several years the number of CAD blogs, and blogs in general, have multiplied many times over. Back when there were only a handful of CAD sites worth visiting, it wasn’t too tough to manually visit each one…
For the past couple weeks The CAD Geek Blog has been rather quiet. Rest assured I haven’t abandoned my little corner of the CAD blogosphere, but rather took a little end-of-year vacation (Dec 17-Jan 1). I started my vacation with…
