Here is the straight scoop from Autodesk on the requirements for AutoCAD 2010. Does your machine have what it takes?
Operating system
32-bit
Microsoft® Windows® Vista® Business SP1
Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise SP1
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 or later
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or later
64-bit
Microsoft Windows Vista Business SP1
Microsoft Windows [...]
I have used a few of the online file hosting and sharing services in the past. As always, I am looking for free services as my needs are not often very large. I look for “unlimited duration” free – not a timed free trial. I look for file sharing, and backups. [...]
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Dimensions are one of the most well defined areas of AutoCAD and one of the most misunderstood. Misunderstood at the base level. Not many know all of the variables that need to be defined. If you think that DIMS are simple, just do a search in your AutoCAD help file for “dim” [...]
The DIM Variables (and the release they were introduced). Plus a quick outline of what they do.
DIMADEC (R14) – Controls the number of precision places displayed in angular dimensions.
DIMALT (R12) – Controls the display of alternate units in dimensions.
DIMALTD (R12) – Controls the number of decimal places in alternate units. If DIMALT is turned [...]
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Here is a quick explanation (from Autodesk help files) for the new location of dimension commands in the Ribbon.
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New to AutoCAD are Annotative Dimensions.
Annotation scaling allows you to plot annotation text at the same height or size regardless of the viewport zoom scale. Annotation scales can be associated with annotative objects in AutoCAD so that these objects can be sized properly for specific annotation scales in model space and displayed correctly in paper [...]
In my last post on this issue I opened the topic with the options that Autodesk provides with licensing. My concern is that choosing one or the other does not allow me to cover my disaster recovery needs. If I go one way – I have troubles. If I go the other way – I [...]
Adding a Date stamp or Plot stamp to the drawings is something that I have done for many years.
It is a little piece of text that is located on your border that is updated every time you open your files. It is created with Fields. It is not part of the titleblock because [...]
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Tables are not very widely adopted by AutoCAD users but your standard needs to address them.
They include text objects – so I include this discussion here…
Are you going to use them?
Do you develop standard Tables?
Can users create their own?
Define the items that need input or save them as a Table Style. Go through the [...]
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