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Edwin’s 100 tips, plus my own

2 July 2010 at 3:49 pm » Comments (2)

Over at Edwin Prakaso's CAD Notes site, he has collected 100 AutoCAD tips and published them in a highly useful post. Very nice job, Edo. While you blog readers are collecting ...more »

Restoring Hatch double-click in AutoCAD 2011

10 May 2010 at 12:39 pm » Comments (6)

In AutoCAD 2011, the default action when double-clicking on a hatch object is to invoke the Properties palette for that object. In previous releases, it would invoke the Hatch Edit ...more »

Filling the holes in Autodesk’s CHM Help stopgap

7 May 2010 at 1:18 pm » Comments (3)

It was good to see Autodesk react to criticism of AutoCAD 2011's browser-based Help with an acknowledgement of the problems and an attempt to provide a workaround by making a ...more »

AutoCAD 2011 – Putting things back to “normal”

25 March 2010 at 9:17 pm » Comments (26)

Easily the most popular post on this blog, in terms of both hits and comments, is AutoCAD 2009 - Putting things back to "normal". Not too far behind it is ...more »

AutoCAD tip – which drawings use an xref?

15 March 2010 at 10:42 pm » Comments (5)

Here's a tip I just rediscovered while cleaning out my old emails. It applies to all recent AutoCAD releases. Let's say you have a drawing that you think has been used ...more »

Repost – how to get your picture next to your comment

15 March 2010 at 5:11 pm » Comments (3)

This is a revisit of a post I made about a year ago. You may have noticed that some people's comments have an avatar picture next to them (no, not the ...more »

Quick and dirty clicks and drags in AutoCAD

12 March 2010 at 2:19 pm » Comments (10)

I'm sure most of you draw your objects with great precision. But sometimes even the most precise among us may want to make a quick and dirty move or copy ...more »

AutoCAD does a Cheshire Cat

19 February 2010 at 3:06 pm » Comments (4)

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat gradually disappears until nothing is left but its smile. The AutoCAD packaging has done the same thing over the years until now ...more »

AutoCAD virus protection update

14 August 2009 at 5:29 pm » Comments (2)

As I mentioned in my last post, I had some reservations about the code provided by Autodesk to deal with suspect acad.vlx and logo.gif files. Based on a suggestion from ...more »

Another AutoCAD malware warning

10 August 2009 at 4:58 pm » Comments (2)

Shaan Hurley has posted some useful information about another AutoCAD-based virus that is doing the rounds, and I strongly suggest you read it. However, I have some reservations about the ...more »

AutoCAD malware warning

9 July 2009 at 10:08 am » Comments (0)

There is a piece of malware out there written as an ObjectARX application, i.e. it will only affect AutoCAD users. It's a China-based adware client, which Andrew Brandt at the ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Putting things back to “normal”

16 June 2009 at 12:44 pm » Comments (59)

Easily the most popular post on this blog, in terms of both hits and comments, is AutoCAD 2009 - Putting things back to "normal". Lots of people seemed to find ...more »

AutoCAD’s magic vanishing attachments

30 April 2009 at 10:36 pm » Comments (1)

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 ...more »

Older AutoCAD loses (part of) the plot

23 February 2009 at 11:58 am » Comments (22)

I know there are plenty of people still using AutoCAD 2007 and earlier, so this bug warning may save some of you some grief. I have no idea how widespread ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Will you miss the Menu Browser?

20 February 2009 at 2:48 pm » Comments (6)

I've closed the poll that asked AutoCAD 2009 users about their MENUBAR setting. It's very clear that pull-down menus are still very much in use in the Ribboned world of ...more »

Gravatars – how to get a picture next to your comment

17 February 2009 at 1:11 pm » Comments (4)

After some recent site maintenance here, you may have noticed that the comments look a bit different, and that some people's comments have a little picture next to them. This ...more »

What is loaded at AutoCAD startup, and when?

1 September 2008 at 2:03 pm » Comments (16)

Warning, CAD nerd stuff ahead. This is a long and technical post and if you're using AutoCAD in a largely out-of-the-box state you probably won't care about any of it. If ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – Ribbon content for Express Tools

13 June 2008 at 2:49 pm » Comments (0)

One of the many unfinished aspects of the AutoCAD 2009 Ribbon is the lack of Express Tools content. One enterprising user has put the effort into correcting this, and has ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – Drawing integrity tip – urgent!

5 May 2008 at 8:50 pm » Comments (0)

AutoCAD 2009 users, I strongly suggest you go and set the new system variable OPENPARTIAL to 0. Now. Why? Because if it's set to the default value of 1, purging can ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – Putting things back to normal revisited

1 May 2008 at 9:52 am » Comments (0)

I see Lynn Allen has written a post explaining how to restore the "classic" interface. I commend Lynn for doing this in response to the requests she's been receiving. It ...more »