By Donnie Gladfelter on August 21, 2009
One of the greatest features of AutoCAD is how much you can tailor it to meet your individual needs. To me, what’s even better than the ability to customize your workspace, is the fact Autodesk makes it incredibly easy to get things back to the way they were if you happen to over customize your [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on March 6, 2008
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 text was defined correctly in the AutoCAD Block Editor (BEDIT command), but displayed the incorrect [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on March 2, 2008
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 routines, or even VBA and .NET applications. Each of these features is included in the [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on February 8, 2008
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 we were not skiing we ended up playing Nintendo Wii.
Of course the Nintendo Wii [...]
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By Donnie Gladfelter on January 31, 2008
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 a SSM field. So how did I put a comma in the illustration above?
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