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 [...]
Posted in AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged Action Macros, Action Recorder, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, ZOOM
By Donnie Gladfelter on December 10, 2009
Despite my best efforts I never had the chance to blog nearly as much as I wanted from Autodesk University 2009. Suffice to say, with 4 on-camera interviews, 3 classes to present, 1 lab to assist, and a partridge in a pear tree, it was a busy week. Ok, so maybe I made up the [...]
Posted in AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged Customization, Drawing Modes, No Experience Required, Status Bar
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 [...]
Posted in AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged CUI, User Interface, Workspace
By Donnie Gladfelter on October 3, 2008
So you have this drawing, and despite clearing our your Annotative Scale List, running the PURGE command, even clearing out your layer filters the gosh darn drawing is still slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter. And even after all of that, your drawing is still 1 MB in size – [...]
Posted in AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009 | Tagged AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD Tips & Tricks, features, RegApps, Xdata
By Donnie Gladfelter on April 7, 2008
Goodness, am I not the worst blogger ever? My apologies to all of my loyal readers; last week was quite a monumental week. As I have mentioned a few times before, The CAD Geek is something I do in my free time. Consequently the time I would have otherwise spent blogging, was spent putting [...]
Posted in AutoCAD 2009, Videos | Tagged AutoCAD 2009, Tips & Tricks, Video
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