Any drawing created in AutoCAD 2008 and later which uses Multileaders will present problems to users of AutoCAD 2007 and earlier. The users of the earlier release will find that rather than having leaders to deal with, they have proxy objects. As a result, it is impossible to edit these leaders in any way [...]
 20 September 2010, 7:13 pm |  Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Bug, Multileaders, Tip, Wipeouts | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, Bug, Interoperability, Tip Heidi Hewett just reported the following on her blog, about a productivity study: According to a recent independent study, AutoCAD® 2011 can help you work up to 44% faster with the latest productivity enhancements. I have a couple of problems with that sentence. First, it’s not an independent study. It’s a study conducted by [...] 4 August 2010, 4:04 pm |  8 comments | Tags: David Cohn, Heidi Hewett, Performance, Productivity, Spin | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Fail, Other Blogs, Rant, Spin, Thoughts My CADLock, Inc. colleague, Owen Wengerd has posted about a fix utility he has written to help clean up drawings infested with the language pack problem discussed here. I have not yet tested Owen’s utility*, but as this should run in any AutoCAD-based product from 2007 on, it could well be a better partial [...] 22 July 2010, 1:43 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Free Stuff, ManuSoft, Owen Wengerd | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Bug, Development, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Win There are now quite a few file types that you can attach to an AutoCAD drawing as a reference, in the same way that you can attach other drawings as xrefs. We’ve been able to attach other drawings since Release 11 (1990) and images since Release 14 (1997), but every release since 2007 has [...] 30 April 2009, 10:36 pm | One comment | Tags: Attachment, AutoCAD, DGN, DWF, DWFx, Interoperability, Missing Parts, PDF, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD 2007, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, Bug, Interoperability, Tip If you saw my post or Shaan Hurley’s post about this utility and grabbed it on or before 27 April, please go and grab it again. It’s been updated to fix a couple of bugs. 28 April 2008, 10:41 am | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, Bug, Scale Lists, Tip, _XREF_XREF | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, Bug, Other Blogs, Tip If you’re an AutoCAD 2008 user you probably already know what the title refers to. If not, you probably don’t need to know. If your drawings are afflicted, I suggest you hop over to Between the Lines, grab the scale list cleanup utility and start cleaning up. Although I’ve found that this utility works [...] 25 April 2008, 9:45 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, Bug, Scale Lists, Tip, _XREF_XREF | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, Bug, Other Blogs, Tip |
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