The May Issue of the Journal has been published. Click here to read it In This Journal Pulling in the Plotting purse strings Tools I use… Survey Says! CADD Leadership – Part 7 AutoCAD Home Use Quick Tip – Revit 8
To all of the mother’s out there – a tip of the hat. To my mother a special expression of love and respect for putting up with me for so many years. For patiently and lovingly and supportively helping me get through the years. For all that you have done, Thank you is not enough. […]
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Here is a brief overview of a CAD Manager position and the duties involved: Provide production CAD support Develop, implement and enforce CAD Standards Organize the CAD environment Supply technical support for all CAD software Provide support for plotting and electronic file submissions Interact on project standards coordination with clients Insure CAD vendor management Provide […]
I have been getting questions related to the installation of the Express Tools in the 2006 products, well actually the lack of installation of the Express Tools Menu. It does load automatically with the 2006 products but you may have to Load the CUI to get it to work. Here’s how… Just try typing in […]
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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Objects are highlighted when the pickbox cursor rolls over them, providing a preview of which object will be selected when you click. Pretty cool stuff. You do have some options related to how this function works, or you can even turn it off. In the Options dialog box under Selection is the following new area. […]
Additional Known Issues – Highlighted and (commented)… Windows Explorer: The new ‘Find within Explorer‘ feature (which is really cool) of AutoCAD 2006 does not support Architectural Desktop objects. (You can still use it to find AutoCAD objects inside ADT) Schedule External Drawing: Please notice that if you take advantage of the new relative path option […]
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 […]

