The AutoCAD Blogger Council was treated to a visit of the Autodesk offices in San Francisco earlier this week for a sneak preview of the soon to be released AutoCAD 2015. Thanks to Autodesk for giving us the opportunity to…
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Most people know that you can export an AutoCAD drawing file to DXF format. Unlike DWG, DXF is a documented file format that can be used to exchange drawing data with others who do not use AutoCAD. Here we are…
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Historically, drawing (.DWG) files created with an educational version of AutoCAD were, for lack of a better word, purposely “infected” with a plot stamp that would appear on prints (paper or electronic) indicating the drawing was created and/or edited in…
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If your delete key stops working in AutoCAD, check the value of PICKFIRST. Make sure it is set to 1. When PICKFIRST is set to 0, selected items are ignored when you launch a command. This does not really have…
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The goal here is to produce a cut and fill map similar to what is shown above, where: The positive and negative values are different colors The positive values include a leading “+” sign The negative values include a leading…
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Do you get annoyed at AutoCAD when those little blue boxes that appear on objects and quickly start mashing the ESC key? Are these blue boxes, better known as Grips, just in your way? Let’s take a look at Grips…
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Here is a reference of AutoCAD new features starting with the 2007 version. New Features Workshop – AutoCAD 2007 New Features Workshop – AutoCAD 2008 New Features Workshop – AutoCAD 2009 New Features Workshop – AutoCAD 2010 New Features Workshop…
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We’ve been seeing reports of missing thumbnail previews in the AutoCAD OPEN dialog box, usually in AutoCAD 2014 or 2013. This can usually be traced to the registry setting that controls this feature, which is: \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\Rxx.x\ACAD-xxxx:xxx\Profiles\Profile_Name\Dialogs\Select File ;; Set the…
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In Civil 3D 2014 (and probably other versions such as 2013 and 2015), when you switch to a layout you may notice that the “Layout Tools” contextual tab appears. If you want to stop this behavior, follow these steps. Run…
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Autodesk has decided to discontinue Design Review, according to Autodesk Labs program manager Scott Sheppard, in this thread in the Autodesk Design Review user forum. The current Design Review downloads will continue to be available for some time, but according…
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