Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Passes away at age 92.At a celebration in her honor, she once said: "I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die — the dream of freedom and peac...
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Friday, 21 October 2005
txt2mtxt, txtexp and preparing for winter
Posted on 12:31 by Unknown
Working on cleaning up some floor plans. Most areas have room names and room numbers, but, different areas have different-sized text. I use a qselect to pick all of the text, then, modify the height in the properties dialog... the only problem is, that now the text is overlapping since each piece of text only had so much space between them. Hmm, what to do? Ah! txt2mtxt!!! I just select my two or three pieces of text, and viola'! I now I have an mtext object containing two lines of characters with a respectable space between them.This is an express...
Thursday, 20 October 2005
FREE DWG Viewer and Parents as Teachers
Posted on 13:32 by Unknown
From Shaan Hurley's blog (imho, one of the best places to get acad news)New and Free DWG TrueView™ - view DWG filesDWG TrueView™ is now available for free from Autodesk. http://www.autodesk.com/dwgtrueviewSpread the word! You can view DWG files 100% just like AutoCAD can for free."Share AutoCAD® drawings easily and accurately among engineers and architects with DWG TrueView™. View and plot DWG and DXF™ files, and then publish them as DWF™ files for quick and easy review and markup in Autodesk® DWF™ Composer. And you’ll always get full drawing fidelity...
Thursday, 13 October 2005
Explaining Autosave? and block names with wildcards
Posted on 13:16 by Unknown
Well, I'd seen this come up on a few newgroups/forums, and I thought about doing a write-up, and of course, someone else is smarter and quicker than me... but, I won't hold it against him. RK Mcswain, on his blog, CAD Panacea reveals the mystery behind the workings of autosave. http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2005/07/autosave-mystery.htmlAnd, as for my question the other day, about wacky blocks; between my readings on the autodesk knowledgebase, the help files and explanations from those more experienced/informed than myself (Mark H., Eric W., Richard...
Monday, 10 October 2005
Block Thumbnails and Block Names with Wildcards
Posted on 11:26 by Unknown
First an answer, then a question... Thumbnail images for blocks are not displayed in AutoCAD® DesignCenterPublished date: 2003-03-06 ID: TS34512 Applies to: AutoCAD® 2002AutoCAD LT® 2002AutoCAD LT® 2000iAutoCAD LT® 2000IssueThumbnail images for blocks do not display in AutoCAD DesignCenter for drawings created in previous versions of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT® software.SolutionBlocks created in older versions of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT do not store a preview or thumbnail of the block in the drawing. Instead, you must use the BLOCKICON command to save...
Friday, 7 October 2005
Using a Block to Trim
Posted on 13:28 by Unknown
Btrimhave a great weekend, and thanks to my better half for the above.oh, and some interesting reading: http://www.miniature-earth.com/If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something like...
Monday, 3 October 2005
Salary Survey
Posted on 09:58 by Unknown
CAD Salary Survey - Designers, Drafters, Engineers, Architects & Educators!The AUGI Annual Salary Survey is now running! The results will be published in the Jan/Feb 2006 issue of AUGIWorld magazine.You do have to be a member to take the AUGI salary survey, but, it is a free membership and they don't sell your information to other parties. Don't forget to set your preferences in the My AUGI control panel, which determines whether you get hotnews and other AUGI updates via email. The results of past Salary Surveys (among others) can be found...
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