Civil 3D 2017 was recently released but be careful before upgrading. The last 4 previous versions (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016) were all compatible with each other, but 2017 is NOT backwards compatible. If you open an older Civil 3D…
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Many CAD users today still routinely produce monochrome drawings of construction documents in their daily production work. For these users, little has changed over the years since their drawings are generally mass reproduced on high speed monochrome equipment (i.e. inexpensive), and…
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I’ve recently returned from BIM Forum’s Minneapolis conference (coincidentally, I was there when Prince died…very surreal, and way off-topic). If you have never been to BIM Forum, I would suggest you go at least once. It is hosted by the…
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If you wish to remove the InfoCenter from the AutoCAD title bar, it is very easy to do. With AutoCAD closed, run the REGEDIT command (disclaimer: don’t do anything foolish in here, only make the edit as described below!). Navigate…
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If you’ve installed the R2 download for Revit 2016 (available to Student and Subscription customers), you may have noticed a new parameter tool called Global Parameters. This new tool brings the power of family type parameters to the project environment….
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Are you aware of the Autodesk Expert Elite program? It began in late 2012 with invitations to 62 individuals from all over the world. Many of those invitees were attending Autodesk University that fall, and were invited to a luncheon…
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If you program with autolisp, you have probably used the command function at some point, probably to construct drawing entities. There is certainly nothing wrong with that. However, if you are working on a large program that constructs a lot…
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Another year has passed by! Our first post was 11 years ago today (A full year before Twitter was even invented!). That link will take you to the old Blogger site, which Google has keep up and running even though we moved…
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March 8, 2016 – cadpanacea.com announces today that contributing author Kimberly Fuhrman has joined among others, fellow Cad Panacea author R.K. McSwain, as a member of the Autodesk Expert Elite Program. Kimberly was chosen for her knowledge and expertise in use of Autodesk…
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So you want to make a custom linetype for AutoCAD? So you want to make a custom linetype for AutoCAD that contains text and/or symbols. Autodesk refers to these custom linetypes as “Complex Linetypes”. Should you use text or shapes…
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