CAD Vanity Plates
Let’s start off the week with a little fun. Are you super jazzed up about your CAD related occupation? …
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Author Archive: rkmcswain
Explore the current drawing directory
Here is a menu macro that will open Windows Explorer to the directory of the current drawing in AutoCAD. ^C^C(startapp “explorer” (strcat “/e, “(getvar “dwgprefix”))); Create a new command in the CUI, add this macro, give it a name and…
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Want to learn Autolisp? Here are some free resources.
Autolisp was introduced as a programming language for AutoCAD back in 1986, and it is still a valuable tool today. For certain, especially repetitive, tasks you can create functions to save a lot of time and frustration compared to performing…
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AutoCAD Core Console
Have you ever wanted to run a script file on one or more drawings, without having to use the overhead of the entire AutoCAD application? Starting with AutoCAD 2013, you can. AutoCAD 2013 and later comes with a tiny application named…
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Civil 3D Cogo Points: Sub-Item Grips
With regard to Civil 3D Cogo Points, you probably know that the point labels include a “Dragged State”, the properties of which take over when you drag the point label away from the point location. But did you know…
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Top CAD blogs
Brian M. Curran from http://www.draftingservices.com/blog releases an annual report on the Top CAD blogs using Alexa’s Global Traffic Rank. Here is a list of the last few years. 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Dell and Autodesk team up to offer budget CAD workstation
Dell and Autodesk are working together to provide CAD professionals with a budget priced workstation solution. For less than US$1000, you can purchase a Dell Precision T1700 workstation that includes a one year desktop subscription of AutoCAD LT (or another…
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AddSelected Command
AutoCAD 2011 introduced the command ADDSELECTED which allows you to create a new object based on the object type and properties of a selected object. For example, if you have a circle on layer “Geometry” whose color is hard set…
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Using Tracking in place of construction lines
Do you ever find yourself drawing lines to get a starting point for the object you really want to draw? You might refer to these as construction lines, and you have to go back and erase them, right? What if you…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Service Pack 2 is now available
Autodesk has released Service Pack 2 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015. Be sure to read the download page and the readme file (English only). This service pack contains the fixes included in: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Service Pack 1 AutoCAD…
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