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How your clients can open DWF’s without downloading anything

How your clients can open DWF’s without downloading anything

By Donnie Gladfelter on March 9, 2010

Regardless if you think DWF’s are the best thing since sliced bread, if the person you’re sending the DWF to can’t open the DWF; how great DWF’s are becomes irrelevant mighty quick. In my experience, unless you’re sending a lot of DWF’s to someone, they’re not all that interested in installing yet another piece of [...]

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Easily manage your Civil 3D Styles and Templates for FREE

Easily manage your Civil 3D Styles and Templates for FREE

By Donnie Gladfelter on March 1, 2010

Getting the initial manuscript for my upcoming book AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT: No Experience Required submitted has made me fall behind on reading some of my favorite blogs. This morning I took a quick minute to get caught up on what’s happening in the blogosphere, and came across an announcement on the EE Civil3DPedia blog [...]

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Visual Project Dashboards with MindManager

Visual Project Dashboards with MindManager

By Donnie Gladfelter on February 22, 2010

Over the last several months much of my time has gone into writing my first book; tentatively titled AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT: No Experience Required. You can look for it in bookstores in June of this year (2010). Those who follow me on twitter have heard me talk about what it’s like to write a [...]

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The X Factor – Placing text above and below dimension lines

The X Factor – Placing text above and below dimension lines

By Donnie Gladfelter on February 4, 2010

Many veteran users already know this tip, as it has been around for a while now. Still, for the uninitiated figuring out how to get text both above and below a dimension line (without breaking the line) can quickly resemble one of those puzzles where you have to get a metal ring off an [...]

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Creating Zoom Macros with the Action Recorder

Creating Zoom Macros with the Action Recorder

By Donnie Gladfelter on January 12, 2010

I can’t speak for the other vertical products out there, but both Land Desktop and Civil 3D have a handy assortment of Zoom Macros. These Zoom macros include things like ZE for Zoom Extents, ZP for Zoom Previous, and so on. Although both LDT and Civil 3D are built atop the beloved AutoCAD platform, these [...]

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Autodesk Acquires Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM

Autodesk Acquires Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM

By Donnie Gladfelter on January 5, 2010

Over the last several years we’ve seen Autodesk feature renderings created using Autodesk 3D Studio Max Design and a third-party product from 3AM Solutions named Dynamite VSP. For the uninitiated, Dynamite VSP is a product designed specifically for the civil engineering industry. No pun intended, but it helps bridge the gap between AutoCAD Civil 3D [...]

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Happy New Year from The CAD Geek

Happy New Year from The CAD Geek

By Donnie Gladfelter on January 1, 2010

To say 2009 was quite a year would be a profound understatement. Many of you, myself included, endured layoffs, reduced salaries, and all sorts of undesirable things. I’m optimistic this year will be much more prosperous than last year.
Even if 2009 wasn’t the best of years, looking back at the last decade is rather [...]

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