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AutoCAD Analysis Zebra
This strange command was introduced in AutoCAD 2011. Speaking with co-workers here, it’s mainly a source of frustration as users try to Zoom Extents and instead get the ZEBRA…
March 21, 2012 · 1 min read
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Civil 3D Survey Figure Linetype Generation
Survey figures by default do not show linetype generation in Civil 3D. This means if you have a survey figure with many closely spaced vertices, you will not be able to see the…
March 2, 2012 · 1 min read
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Auto Updating Data Links
Data Links are a great way to link tables in AutoCAD with Excel spreadsheets. If you update the Excel file you'll most likely get a warning in AutoCAD that the file has been…
February 15, 2012 · 1 min read
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Professional Development
California is one of the few states that does not require professional development hours (PDH) for licensed professional engineers. I've often wondered about this and why this is…
February 1, 2012 · 2 min read
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Obscure AutoCAD Commands
We get a lot of calls from people that have seen a command once, but forgot what the command was. Sometimes, we know these off the top of our head, other times they take a bit of…
December 16, 2011 · 1 min read
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AU 2011 Highlights
Autodesk University 2011 has now passed. Just a week ago, we were in the midst of thousands of attendees trying to share and receive as much information from each other as…
December 7, 2011 · 1 min read
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NVidia Maximus
NVidia Maximus allows you to link up a Quadro card for graphics, and a Tesla card for data processing. This allows programs to unload intensive data processing operations off of…
November 23, 2011 · 1 min read
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AU 2011 - November 29th through December 1st
Autodesk University 2011 is less than two weeks away and we're gearing up to make AU 2011 one of the best ever. Autodesk Topobase First up, we are presenting a class on the…
November 16, 2011 · 1 min read
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Input Devices and AutoCAD
Touch Screens We are now seeing the wide scale adoption of the touch screen as an input device. AutoCAD for Mac supports gestures when using the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad. We…
November 2, 2011 · 2 min read
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LISP
I actually wrote this post a few weeks ago, but decided not to post it for some reason. Today I learned from Without a Net that the creator of the LISP language, John McCarthy…
October 26, 2011 · 1 min read
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AutoCAD Performance Slowdown - Part 2
In my last post , I said that I was going to exclude c:\windows\winsxs from the on-access scans for McAfee Virus and Spyware Protection. The McAfee software prevents me from doing…
October 20, 2011 · 1 min read
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AutoCAD Performance Slowdown
Recently, I had an issue with AutoCAD performance. Whenever I would pick an entity there was a 3-5 second delay before I could do anything with it. The issue occurred in both 2011…
October 19, 2011 · 1 min read
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AutoCAD 2011 for Mac Update 3
AutoCAD for Mac 2012 has been released, but AutoCAD 2011 for Mac has not been forgotten. AutoCAD 2011 for Mac Update 3 has recently been released and now provides support for Mac…
October 10, 2011 · 1 min read