{"id":177,"date":"2006-01-09T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2006\/01\/09\/autocad-magic-numbers-and-the-cadcard\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T04:22:20","slug":"autocad-magic-numbers-and-cadcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2006\/01\/autocad-magic-numbers-and-cadcard\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoCAD Magic Numbers and the CADCard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have let you know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/Management\/MyTools.html\">what tools I use<\/a> in the past and I wanted to let you know about another one that I had not added to the list but have used for some time. I use the CADCard. It is a great tool to help remember and figure out what I call the &#8220;Magic Numbers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What size do you make 3\/32&#8243; text on a 3&#8243;=1&#8242;-0&#8243; scale file?<br \/>\nWhat dimscale do you use for 1\/8&#8243; plans?<br \/>\nWhat do all those Dim settings do and what do I change?<\/p>\n<p>The CAD Card helps me land on one of the Magic Numbers. 24, 48, 96. I know that when I try to scale something or change scale that I will most likely land on one of the Magic Numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadcard.com\">www.cadcard.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caddmanager.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/CADCard-798911.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caddmanager.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/CADCard-796846.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well they have just come out with a CADCard Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing Scale calcs are not longer a tough job.  Text Sizes come easy.  In engineering and architectural lunits.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have let you know what tools I use in the past and I wanted to let you know about another one that I had not added to the list but have used for some time. I use the CADCard. It is a great tool to help remember and figure out what I call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}