Heidi Hewett, formerly with Autodesk for 25+ years, and unfortunately part of the recent 13% workforce cutback at Autodesk, has found a new home at Bricsys as the new User Success Manager. We can’t think of a better place for Heidi…
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About four years ago, Autodesk decided to remove the watermark from drawings created with its educational versions of products. Well, it has now been reinstated, starting with the 2019 versions of products. Take a look at this PDF file for…
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If you are familiar with the Express Tools for AutoCAD (formerly “Bonus Tools”), then you may be wondering if this toolset comes with BricsCAD. Well, it does not. But never fear, thanks to one of the many developers for BricsCAD…
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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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