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 may I take your order? 1 Jul, 2003 By: Bill Fane Make fill color transparent with Draworder.
Article manage those layers 1 May, 2003 By: Bill Fane Change is easy with AutoCAD?s layer management tools.
Article an edit off the old block 1 Mar, 2003 By: Bill Fane Edit blocks and xrefs in place with AutoCAD?s Refedit command.
Article Inventor 6 strengthens surfaces 1 Jan, 2003 By: Bill Fane Autodesk Inventor Release 6 is the seventh release in just three years (don't forget R5.3) and is billed as the "biggest" since Release 1 in terms of new or improved features.
Article extract those attributes 1 Jan, 2003 By: Bill Fane Transfer data stored in block attributes for use in other programs.
Article Isn't that spatial? 1 Nov, 2002 By: Bill Fane Explore AutoCAD?s true associative dimensions.
Article Pick a standard, any standard... 1 Sep, 2002 By: Bill Fane AutoCAD's new Layer Translation command helps enforce your standards.
Article Set the standard 1 May, 2002 By: Bill Fane Use AutoCAD 2002's new tools to apply your CAD standards.
Article Rendering Adds Realism 1 Mar, 2002 By: Bill Fane AutoCAD's basic visualization tools, part II.
Article I'll show you mine 1 Jan, 2002 By: Bill Fane AutoCAD offers an assortment of basic visualization tools.

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