Posted in autocad, civil3D, tagged autocad civil3D on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Sometimes we need to export our drawing files from Civil 3D to plain vanilla AutoCAD. This may be necessary for a variety of reasons: the client or another consultant doesn’t have Civil 3D and they aren’t able to install the Civil 3D Object Enabler, or you are producing an archive set and don’t want [...]
Posted in autocad on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently tried to add a wipeout to a bit of annotative DTEXT, and discovered that these two things don’t play well together in AutoCAD 2008. Basically, the text just disappears. So what do you do if you want to display some masked task at one particular scale? It’s easy.
Posted in autocad on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my biggest gripes with PSLTSCALE is that it can make working in model space a pain. I like to see what my linetypes are going to look like when they plot, and with PSLTSCALE set to 1, you need to have LTSCALE set to 1 (generally) rather than the scale of your [...]
Posted in VBA, autocad on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Ever since AutoCAD 2000, we’ve had the ability to filter our layer manager and layer toolbar views. One thing that I always found myself doing is adding a filter which shows only non-xref layers. It’s easy enough to create one (just use ~*|* as a name filter), but I wanted something faster, so [...]
Posted in autocad, blog roundup on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Looks like I got a little busy (napping) over the holidays, so I’ve let the blog roundup slide. Well, here are a few highlights:
Ellen Finkelstein elucidates methods for copying objects between drawings.
LuAnn Sims leaves a few tips on the little things.
and Heidi Hewett has some valuable information regarding mouse zooming.
Posted in autocad on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently discovered the power of using Sheet Sets with Fields in AutoCAD 2008. We have a project that requires us to use sequentially numbered sheets. The client also requires us to use those sheet numbers when referencing between drawings. Since we are still developing the set and may have to insert [...]
Posted in autocad, best practices on December 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I added a section on Xref Overlays versus Attachments to the Best Practices guide.
Posted in autocad, old school on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Since AutoCAD 2007, the Xref Manager has changed from this:
to this:
Personally, I prefer the old-school version, for two reasons. One, it loads faster, and two, it is easier to change an xref from Attachment to Overlay.
Posted in autocad, blog roundup on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
CAD Digest offers a number of new pointers to various tips around the web:
Erhan Toker gives us a tip on how to use Polar Tracking.
Ellen Finkelstein espouses on the benefits of using Layer States.
Burak ÖzdemIr shows us the great TCASE command.
Ward Romberger tells us how to delete duplicates with OVERKILL.
Eren Pala explains how [...]
Posted in autocad, best practices on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I put up a section on Object Snaps in the Best Practices guide.
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