In the 2007 version of the Deployment Wizard, there is a checkbox that says Group Policy Objects will be used to distribute the deployment. If this box is checked, then the contents of the service pack will be embedded into…
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If you want to create a raster image from your AutoCAD drawing, first you need to decide on what raster format to use. First off, you may not need any 3rd party software. AutoCAD 2007 comes with two .PC3 files…
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It’s easy to find what drawings are xref’ed into your drawing, but how do you find what drawings your drawing is xref’ed in to? Ellen Finkelstein has posted a great tip on www.ellenfinkelstein.com regarding how to do this. Note that…
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If you are working in the VBA editor and are frustrated because the scroll button on your mouse does not scroll, then pick up this freebie called FreeWheel and drop it in your Windows Start Menu in the startup group….
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This is the one new addition to 2006 that most of my users either really love or really dislike. On the other hand, I don’t really care one way or the other since I do 99% of my zooming and…
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Another quick tip. You can use hyperlinks to navigate to named views in a drawing. You can attach a hyperlink to almost any drawing entity, linking it to a named view. You can even link to layout tabs. Select the…
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Sometimes while using AutoCAD, you want to delete a layer, but even after removing all entities from the layer in question, it will not purge. Hopefully the following troubleshooting will help. Causes There are really only two causes. An entity is referencing…
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Here is something I ran across today, using AutoCAD 2006. Copy two columns of text from Excel spreadsheet to clipboard. In Excel, the first column is formatted as ‘General’ and the second column is formatted as ‘Number’, set to 2…
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Sometimes, it’s the little things that make all the difference. One of the best features of the R2005 Mtext editor is the ability to quickly exit (while saving changes) by clicking anywhere in the drawing editor. This beats trying to…
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With very few exceptions, you should never manually enter a dimension value. I see this all the time when I go to edit dimension text, and the text in the editor reads something like FUTURE 20′ EASEMENT, when it should…
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