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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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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If you ever experimented with adding, removing, or editing paths in the AutoCAD Options dialog on the Files tab, you may get into a state where you simply want to return a certain item to its default setting. You can…
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As announced at the recent Bricsys Conference in Paris last month, Chapoo has now been rebraded to Bricsys 24/7. Bricsys 24/7 is workflow automation, project management, a cloud based collaboration tool. Currently this is only a name change, but look…
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Bricsys has released BricsCAD v18 (specifically V18.1.04) this week. You can download it from their website, here. Some of the new features are listed below. File Format / General BricsCAD v18 now supports the 2018 version .DWG files. Civil 3D…
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Whether you are new to AutoCAD, or a seasoned veteran, you might not be fully aware of all of the UI elements available to you. In this post, we will review the UI elements in AutoCAD 2018. Application Menu The…
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Although you can use the built-in plotstamp capability in BricsCAD, you may want to define your own, so that you can include a logo, or other data that is not possible with the default plotstamp. You can do this by…
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To find the version of a .DWG file, open the file in Notepad or some other ASCII or HEX editor and read the first six bytes, then reference the info below: AC1032 = AutoCAD 2018 AC1027 = AutoCAD 2013 AC1024…
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