The Options Dialog box can be your friend or your enemy. Depending on how you set it up, it can enhance your productivity or it can squelch it. It can be overwhelming too. Why are there so many choices? What is all that stuff in there and how does it apply to my work flow? [...]
Continue reading about The Options of AutoCAD 2010 – Opening notes
When you open the Options Dialog, the first Tab, moving from left to right, is the Files section. Support File Search Path First and foremost is where AutoCAD will look for support files that it needs to get the job done. You can get into trouble by adding too many or not adding enough to [...]
Continue reading about The Options of AutoCAD 2010 – The Files Tab – Part 1
Customization Files under the Files Tab allows you to do the following: Main Customization File Specifies the default location of the main customization file (acad.cuix). The CUIx file is a file that contains multiple XML-based files and custom image files. You modify a customization file through the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor. CUIx files replace [...]
Continue reading about The Options of AutoCAD 2010 – The Files Tab – Part 2
Continuing the march through the Options Dialog box… Help and Miscellaneous File Names Help File Specifies the location of the Help file. – don’t change this Default Internet Location Specifies the default Internet location used by both the BROWSER command and the Browse the Web button on the Web toolbar. Type in Browser and hit [...]
Continue reading about The Options of AutoCAD 2010 – The Files Tab – Part 3
I asked what was on your list of focuses in 2010, then I compared the results to the 2009 survey on the same topic. Here is what I found… The concept was to allow only two choices from the list as the ones that they would focus on in 2010. The top issue remains CAD [...]
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