Mark Middlebrook

Mark Middlebrook is sole proprietor of Daedalus Consulting in Oakland, California, and contributing editor of Cadalyst. He is the author of the book AutoCAD 2004 for Dummies, from which parts of this article are adapted. You can visit

Article LT On-line: Lesson 15 1 Jun, 2001 By: Mark Middlebrook Stretch out with the Stretch command
Article LT On-line: Lesson 14 1 May, 2001 By: Mark Middlebrook More command-first editing
Article LT On-line: Lesson 13 1 Apr, 2001 By: Mark Middlebrook Select and edit objects
Article LT On-line: Lesson 12 1 Mar, 2001 By: Mark Middlebrook Why Line when you can Pline?
Article LT On-line: Lesson 11 1 Feb, 2001 By: Mark Middlebrook Xrefs: layers, loading, and logs
Article Revenge of the paper space cadets 1 Jan, 2001 By: Mark Middlebrook In my July 2000 column, "Lost in paper space", I took on the contentious question of whether to use paper space as your standard operating procedure to set up all AutoCAD drawings. That article unleashed a flood of e-mail from both supporters (the x-ruffians) and dissenters (the paper...more >>
Article LT On-line: Lesson 10 1 Dec, 2000 By: Mark Middlebrook Managing xrefs
Article Elegant AutoCAD customization eliminates problems 1 Nov, 2000 By: Mark Middlebrook General-purpose CAD programs such as AutoCAD beg to be customized. AutoCAD’s out-of-the-box program menus and default settings have improved over the years, and the Express Tools add a lot of the functionality that we used to cobble together from various...more >>
Article LT On-line: Lesson 9 1 Nov, 2000 By: Mark Middlebrook Xrefs: blocks writ large
Article LT On-line: Lesson 8 1 Oct, 2000 By: Mark Middlebrook Fill-in-the Blank Blocks: Attributes

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