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Failure to pass on the Principles of your CAD Standard to those who join your team will eventually cause your environment to fall apart.
You begin by defining your principles and share them with others. As you begin to create your CAD Standard everyone is on board. They all agree with the general concepts [...]

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Users want to know what is required of them and they want a logical, easy to understand, Standard that provides the answers to the questions that they will ask about producing drawings.
By developing your Standard based on the Principle that you have developed, you are off to a good start.
Principles help you pass on the [...]

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I am convinced that developing Standards should start with Principles and move from there to Standard Concepts to Methods to Content and finally to Action
Principles -> Standard Concepts -> Methods -> Content -> Action
By starting with the Principles you can get everyone on the same page from the beginning. It is best to work [...]

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Today CAD Digest (one of my favorite places to go to find the latest CAD info) posted three of my articles on the home page. That is a first for me.
If you have not discovered CAD Digest or TenLinks you need to get out more often.
Take a look at them on a regular [...]

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Having created many shortcut routines in LISP over the years, I have also developed certain guidelines for naming those shortcuts.
Here are my guidelines for short key in names…

Keep them on the left side of the keyboard – close to the left hand that usually rests on the keyboard
Keep them key-able with one [...]

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Corporate Facts

100% of Fortune 100 firms are Autodesk customers
98% of Fortune 500 firms are Autodesk customers
Autodesk has 7 million users
Autodesk has licensed users in 106 countries
Last eleven Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects used Autodesk software.
Products available in 20 languages
1,768 channel partners worldwide
Over 1,400 Autodesk Training Centers worldwide
Over 2,800 Autodesk Developer Network members
Over [...]

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Ever get burned when someone has added a layer on one of your XEFs and did not tell you about it? It shows up on your plot and either you have to plot again, or you don’t notice and it goes out to the client!
Never Again!
Now you can set AutoCAD 2008 so that it [...]

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Wow - this is cool.
AutoCAD 2008 has added an XCLIP Invert function that allows you to define a rectangle to cut a hole in your XREF. It kind of sounds like a WHIPOUT, but operates on the XREF itself.
You could use this to perform clips on areas of your XREF.
Before
After

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NDA has been lifted on AutoCAD 2008 - so now we can talk about it.
AutoCAD 2008 enables you to directly attach MicroStation V8 DGN files as an XREF underlay. You can also import DGN data directly into an AutoCAD drawing.
You can also export DWG files to V8 DGN format.
DGNATTACH, a new command, attaches a [...]

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