If you are familiar with customizing AutoCAD, you are probably aware of the user defined lisp files “Acad.lsp” and “AcadDoc.lsp”. The former loads one time per session at startup, and the latter loads each time a document is loaded (presuming…
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If you have attended classes at Autodesk University, you know that you are asked (and maybe pleaded with) to fill out the class evaluations. Autodesk wants to know how their speakers are doing, what classes are popular and informative, and…
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Have you ever wondered about when an AutoCAD command was introduced or modified? Maybe you are using a not-so-current version and you are wondering why a certain command does not work, or works differently. Autodesk publishes a list of new…
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We have covered exploding text in AutoCAD extensively (See Exploding Text into lines and the updated post Exploding TEXT in AutoCAD ) – but what about exploding TEXT in BricsCAD? You might recall that the TXTEXP command in AutoCAD is part of…
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If you have ever tried to purge a textstyle, layer, linetype, etc. in a Civil 3D drawing, and you are prevented from doing so, but you cannot find the object in the drawing? If the object cannot be found in…
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One of our favorite (now EX) Autodeskers is Heidi Hewett. She recently blogged on exploding TEXT into line segments. We have also covered this topic back in 2015, and we covered how to explode linetypes into line segments. We have…
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Autodesk has terminated all rentals of ArtCAM earlier this month, and will end support for the application on November 1, 2018. Maintenance Plan and Subscription renewals for ArtCAM will continue to be available until July 7, 2018. You can read all…
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Bricsys announced a new application named BricsCAD Shape this week. BricsCAD Shape is a 3D conceptual modeling tool with a clean modern interface, that allows you to quickly capture your designs. The data in BricsCAD Shape is stored in the…
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If you use the system variables CDATE or DATE in your autolisp code in AutoCAD 2017 or later, you should know that Autodesk made an (at the time) undocumented change to these system variables. Prior to 2017 these sysvars returned…
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Under certain circumstances, Civil 3D 2017 can cause the DWG file size to grow with each save. If the user does not notice this, it can eventually render the drawing difficult or impossible to open. The file size increase is…
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