CADDManager on April 1st, 2007

Back to the same question again this year as in April of 2005 and 2006. When are you migrating? Are you on subscription? Let us know so we can see what is on your mind. Take the Survey!

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CADDManager on February 18th, 2007

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 […]

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CADDManager on February 14th, 2007

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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CADDManager on February 13th, 2007

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, […]

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CADDManager on April 20th, 2005

There is a newer form of installing software. I don’t know how long it has been available (let me know if you know). It is called Multi-seat Stand-Alone Licensing. The multi-seat stand-alone license enables the purchaser to install, register, and activate an Autodesk products on several workstations using a single serial number. The mulitseat stand-alone […]

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CADDManager on April 13th, 2005

Way back when… Microstation started letting people legally take home a copy of Microstation so that folks could learn the tool. Autodesk responded in kind and allowed users to have a copy at work and one at home. I am talking about legal copies (not the software that you got from your brother in law […]

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CADDManager on April 8th, 2005

Ever get a file that uses STB and you use CTB? or vise versa CONVERTPSTYLES converts a currently open drawing from color-dependent plot styles to named plot styles, or from named plot styles to color-dependent plot styles, depending on which plot style method the drawing was created and saved with. Converting Drawings from Color-Dependent to […]

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