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 [...]
Posted in DWF | Tagged AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, DWF
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 [...]
Posted in AutoCAD | Tagged AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, Dimensions, Text Codes, Tips & Tricks
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 29, 2009
I certainly hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and got to spend some quality time with your family. Thanks to a rather historical snow the Saturday before Christmas, here in Richmond, VA we did still have snow on the ground for Christmas. Aside from the big piles of snow found in nearly every parking lot [...]
Posted in AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2010, Videos | Tagged AutoCAD 2010, Ribbon, Video
By Donnie Gladfelter on December 17, 2009
During my time at Autodesk University 2009 this year, I had the chance to sit down with Heidi Hewett and record some videos for the AutoCAD Exchange. Among the topics we discussed were Named Page Setups inside AutoCAD. Despite their time-saving potential, Named Page Setups seem to be one of those features that’s been [...]
Posted in AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged AU, AU 2009, AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD Exchange, Page Setup
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