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 The Best Table In The House (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 Sep, 2008 By: Bill Fane Part Two on linking AutoCAD tables to Excel spreadsheets.
Article Your Table is Waiting (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 Aug, 2008 By: Bill Fane You can link spreadsheet data to your AutoCAD files - and vice versa.
Article Who Knew about AutoCAD Projects? (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 Jul, 2008 By: Bill Fane Here's the secret to keeping unruly xrefs under control.
Article My Favorite Places and Other Good Things to Know (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 Jun, 2008 By: Bill Fane Here's a handful of useful little tricks to make you more AutoCAD efficient.
Article It’s Time For a New Leader! (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 May, 2008 By: Bill Fane Add or remove arrows, align and collect leaders, and more with these two leader commands.
Article Take Me To Your Leader! (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 Apr, 2008 By: Bill Fane This first in a series of articles discusses the many facets of the Leader command in AutoCAD.
Article Drawing Scales, Part 2: Scaling the Tallest Drawing (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 Mar, 2008 By: Bill Fane Self-scaling annotations will change the way you draw in AutoCAD.
Article Drawing Scales, Part 1: Practicing Our Scales (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 Feb, 2008 By: Bill Fane AutoCAD 2008's annotative objects change everything, automatically.
Article Tell Me All You Know and Even More: Advanced Attribute Extraction, Part 2 (Learning Curve AutoCAD Tutorial) 1 Jan, 2008 By: Bill Fane A page-by-page guide to data extraction using AutoCAD.
Article Tell Me All You Know: Attribute Extraction, Part 1 (Learning Curve AutoCAD tutorial) 1 Dec, 2007 By: Bill Fane How to interrogate an AutoCAD drawing and pull attribute information out of it.

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