Bill Fane

Bill Fane is a Cadalyst contributing editor, a registered professional engineer, and a retired instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, where he taught mechanical design courses in AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, Inventor, SolidWorks, manufacturing processes, and design procedures. A self-admitted recovering doorknob designer, he has written more than 200 "Learning Curve" AutoCAD tutorials for Cadalyst magazine since 1986 and claims to be a close personal friend of Captain LearnCurve. If you have questions about commands, send him an e-mail him at bill(dot)fane(at)cadalyst(dot)com.

	Article Learning CAD: The Good Old Days 18 Jan, 2012 By: Bill Fane If you think AutoCAD training is challenging now, you might be surprised to know that it was once a lot worse.
	Article SolidWorks Premium 2012 21 Sep, 2011 By: Bill Fane First Look Review: Latest release adds cost analysis, motion optimization, and faster handling of very large assemblies.
	Article Autodesk Suites Are More than the Sum of Their Parts 23 Jun, 2011 By: Bill Fane Autodesk Suites Are More Than the Sum of Their Parts
	Article Inventor Professional 2012: Little Things Mean a Lot 24 Mar, 2011 By: Bill Fane The seemingly small changes in this release can make a big impact on your productivity.
	Article AutoCAD 2012: Who Says 2D is Dead? 22 Mar, 2011 By: Bill Fane The majority of enhancements beef up 2D functionality, including two new commands for generating 2D working drawings from 3D models.
	Article Generate 2D Output from 3D AutoCAD Models in a Flash 23 Feb, 2011 By: Bill Fane Learning Curve tutorial:
	Article SolidWorks 2011 Measures Up 9 Sep, 2010 By: Bill Fane The latest release from Dassault Systèmes features automatic dimension re-arrangement, a part de-featuring tool, and simple sharing of parameter values and equations between parts.
	Article Behind the Scenes at the Indy 500 24 Jun, 2010 By: Bill Fane As guests of HP and Gil de Ferran's Dragon Racing Team, two car-loving CAD journalists see first-hand the computer power behind the engine power — not to mention a few celebrities.
Article Parametrics 103: That Figures! 10 Jun, 2010 By: Bill Fane Learning Curve tutorial: In addition to dynamic dimensional constraints, AutoCAD's parametric options also include annotational dimension constraints that use current dimension style, plot, and scale to match drawing dimensions.
Article Parametrics 101: Don't Be Afraid! 28 Jan, 2010 By: Bill Fane Learning Curve tutorial: Parametrics, as used in AutoCAD 2010, constrain drawing objects so they are related to each other and so that changing or moving one object will affect all its siblings.

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