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 Have you extended your object data recently? 1 Aug, 2001 By: Bill Fane With a bit of AutoLISP programming you can attach your own data to any object in an AutoCAD drawing.
Article Extend AutoCAD entity data 1 Apr, 2001 By: Bill Fane Have you ever wanted to add some extra background information into an AutoCAD drawing?
Article Explore parallel universes 1 Feb, 2001 By: Bill Fane Long, long ago, the AutoCAD world was flat.
Article Rtext automatically updates drawing text 1 Dec, 2000 By: Bill Fane Rtext is much like AutoCAD?s Xref command, except that it works with text files.
Article AutoCAD 2000's Parallel and Extend options 1 Nov, 2000 By: Bill Fane Let's discuss the new parallel object snap in AutoCAD 2000.
Article Pick points quickly with object tracking in AutoCAD 2000 1 Oct, 2000 By: Bill Fane AutoCAD 2000 greatly simplifies and extends the object tracking mode introduced in Release 14.
Article Get to the point with AutoCAD 2000's Polar function 1 Sep, 2000 By: Bill Fane Ortho has a multitude of uses, not limited to the drawing of lines.
Article Clean up your mess with the Filter command 1 Aug, 2000 By: Bill Fane It is almost never correct to set object properties that are different from the layer on which they reside.
Article Time for a change 1 Jul, 2000 By: Bill Fane Of all the changes in AutoCAD, some of the most significant have occurred in the change functions.
Article Mission: To understand Undo and all its variations 1 Jun, 2000 By: Bill Fane From within a particular run of the Line and Pline commands, you can always enter the single letter U instead of specifying the next point.

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