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 March 26, 2008
Autodesk began shipping many of their 2009 products starting Monday. Among those released is their flagship product, AutoCAD 2009. If you just can’t wait until your subscription shipment makes its way to your doorstep, a fully-functioning 30 day trial can be downloaded from the Autodesk website. As I have said in some [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009 | Tagged AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD Tips & Tricks, Customization, features, Script
By Donnie Gladfelter on November 1, 2007
Just this evening I received an e-mail from Autodesk letting me know my AU Unplugged session "The Training Trinity: Fundamentals of a Successful Training Program" was accepted. Thank you to everyone who voted for my session. If you’re attending AU, be sure to check out the AU Unplugged Schedule. There you will find the [...]
Posted in AU 2007, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, Autodesk University | Tagged AU, AU 2007, AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD Tips & Tricks, Microsoft
By Donnie Gladfelter on February 7, 2007
On a somewhat frequent basis I get a call from a user desperate to rid their drawing of the plethora of duplicate objects that in one way or another has plagued their drawing. There is of course the grueling method of individually selecting each duplicated object and running the ERASE command, but surely there [...]
Posted in AutoCAD | Tagged AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD Tips & Tricks
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