Here is the article that started me thinking about the Last Gasp of CAD. It was an article in Harvard Business Review and one more in HBR. In the article, Daniel Snow warns of a surge in old technology as new technology threatens to overtake it. It is worth the read.
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Technology transitions usher in new software, but the older technology may exhibit a resurgence or “Last Gasp” before it goes under. A “Last Gasp” is a valiant attempt to revitalize a technology that appears to be reaching the end of it’s useful life. A recent example of one such technology that might be nearing it’s […]
Final look at the Plot and Publish Tab. Specify Plot Offset Relative To Specifies whether the offset of the plot area is from the lower-left corner of the printable area or from the edge of the paper (PLOTOFFSET system variable). Depending on your plotter you may have to fiddle with these setting. Printable Area Specifies […]
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Next we move to General Plot Options on the Plot Publish Tab. The first option is to either leave the Paper Space size as set int he drawing or to set it to the plotter sizes. I keep it as the Drawing defines it. I may use the plot device if I get files from […]
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The Plotting and Publishing Tab comes next. The AutoCAD 2010 Dialog box for this tab is exactly the same so I am now calling this series the 2011 Options Now we move into the area of Plotting and Publishing. Here you can set the default settings for new files, Plot to file settings, Auto Publish […]
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First we come to the Default plot setting for new drawings. You can set the default output device from the drop down list of available devices. This really only effects drawing that have not been opened or saved in 2000 format and beyond. This dialog will find any PCS files or setups found on your […]
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Background processing is how AutoCAD allows you to get back to work when you send off a plot. Without this setting, you may tie up your machine while it cranks away at your processing. Turn both of these on. There are two options here: Plotting – setting this one to on by checking the box […]
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More on Plotting and Publishing Plot and publish log file – turn it off – you most likely will never need this. If you did create a log it would include: Job ID Job name Sheet set name Category name Date and time started and completed Sheet name Full file path Selected layout name Page […]
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Closing out the left side of this dialog box brings us to Auto Publishing… Checking the Automatic Publish radio button will publish DWF or DWFx or PDF files upon your selected action. So you can set AutoCAD to create DWF or PDF files when you save or close a file. This may be overkill for […]
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